Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

1801  On this day in history johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56   

1802  On this day in history joseph Labitzky, composer   

1806  Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry on this day in history.   

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

1809  On July - 03 joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62   

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie, Canada   

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie Canada   

1814  On July - 03 janis Cimze, composer   

1816  On July - 03 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 July - 03.   

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

1819  1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors on July - 03.   

1819  On this day in history louis Theodore Gouvy, composer   

1821  F Kornberger, writer on this day in history.   

1828  On this day in history john Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865   

1839  On July - 03 the first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students   

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

1841  John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus on this day in history.   

1841  On this day in history 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 July - 03.   

1846  On July - 03 achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) on July - 03.   

1849  On July - 03 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 July - 03.   

1852  On this day in history congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)   

1853  Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan on July - 03.   

1855  Piotr Maszynski, composer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general   

1861  Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer) on this day in history.   

1862  On this day in history friedrich Ernst Koch, composer   

1862  On this day in history william Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40   

1863  Battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends on July - 03.   

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1423  Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) was born on this day in history.   

1442  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)   

1530  Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) was born on this day in history.   

1567  On this day in history birth of samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)   

1676  Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747) was born on July - 03.   

1683  On this day in history birth of edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)   

1685  Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768) was born on July - 03.   

1687  On July - 03 birth of arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)   

0683  On July - 03 leo II, Pope (681-83), dies   

1090  On this day in history 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  On July - 03 maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69   

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

1704  Death of Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657) on July - 03.   

1749  Death of William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) on July - 03.   

1778  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies on July - 03.