Historical Events In July - 03

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

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on July - 03.   

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

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

1809  Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62 on July - 03.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1816  On July - 03 dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65   

1819  On July - 03 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 this day in history.   

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  The first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on this day in history.   

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

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

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  On this day in history the last pair of Great Auks is killed.   

1846  On this day in history achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  On July - 03 slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)   

1849  The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification on July - 03.   

1850  Alfredo Kiel, composer on this day in history.   

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

1853  On July - 03 commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan   

1855  Piotr Maszynski, composer on July - 03.   

1860  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist on this day in history.   

1861  Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY on July - 03.   

1861  On this day in history colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general   

1861  Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer) on July - 03.   

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on July - 03.   

1862  William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40 on July - 03.   

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  Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500) was born on July - 03.   

1530  On July - 03 birth of claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)   

1567  Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1685  On July - 03 birth of sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)   

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

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

1090  Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle on July - 03.   

1570  Death of Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)   

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

1778  On this day in history jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies