Historical Events In July - 03

1801  Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on this day in history.   

1806  Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry on July - 03.   

1806  On July - 03 michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry   

1809  On this day in history joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62   

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada on this day in history.   

1814  On this day in history americans capture Fort Erie Canada   

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on July - 03.   

1816  On this day in history french frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas   

1816  Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1819  The first bank in the U.S. opened in New York City. Business was brisk with $2,807 deposited in the Bank for Savings on this day in history.   

1819  On this day in history 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors   

1819  On this day in history louis Theodore Gouvy, composer   

1821  On this day in history f Kornberger, writer   

1828  John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 on July - 03.   

1839  The first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on July - 03.   

1839  1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on this day in history.   

1841  On July - 03 john Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus   

1841  On July - 03 john Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus   

1844  The last pair of Great Auks is killed on this day in history.   

1846  On this day in history achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) on this day in history.   

1849  On this day in history the French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.   

1850  Alfredo Kiel, composer on this day in history.   

1852  On July - 03 congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)   

1853  On this day in history commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan   

1855  On this day in history piotr Maszynski, composer   

1860  On this day in history charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist   

1861  Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY on this day in history.   

1861  On July - 03 colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general   

1861  On July - 03 peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)   

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on July - 03.   

1862  On July - 03 william Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40   

1863  On July - 03 battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends   

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1423  On July - 03 birth of louis XI, King of France (1461-83)   

1442  On July - 03 birth of emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)   

1530  On this day in history birth of claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)   

1567  On July - 03 birth of samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)   

1676  Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747) was born on this day in history.   

1683  Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint) was born on this day in history.   

1685  On this day in history birth of sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)   

1687  On this day in history birth of arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)   

0683  Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies on this day in history.   

1090  On July - 03 egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle   

1570  On July - 03 death of antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67   

1642  Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69 on this day in history.   

1672  On this day in history death of francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)   

1704  On July - 03 death of sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)   

1749  On this day in history death of william Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)   

1778  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies on this day in history.