Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

1801  Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56 on July - 03.   

1802  On July - 03 joseph Labitzky, composer   

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

1806  Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry on this day in history.   

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

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie, Canada   

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie Canada on July - 03.   

1814  On July - 03 janis Cimze, composer   

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 July - 03 louis Theodore Gouvy, composer   

1821  On July - 03 f Kornberger, writer   

1828  John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1844  The last pair of Great Auks is killed on July - 03.   

1846  On July - 03 achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  On this day in history slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)   

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  On this day in history alfredo Kiel, composer   

1852  Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif) on this day in history.   

1853  Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan on this day in history.   

1855  On this day in history piotr Maszynski, composer   

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

1861  On July - 03 pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY   

1861  Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general on this day in history.   

1861  On this day in history peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)   

1862  On July - 03 friedrich Ernst Koch, composer   

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

1863  On this day in history battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends   

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1423  On this day in history birth of louis XI, King of France (1461-83)   

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

1530  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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  Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch) was born on this day in history.   

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

1090  Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle on this day in history.   

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

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

1672  Death of Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635) on July - 03.   

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 July - 03 jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies