Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

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

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on July - 03.   

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

1806  On this day in history michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry   

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

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie, Canada   

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie Canada   

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on July - 03.   

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

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

1819  Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer on July - 03.   

1821  On this day in history f Kornberger, writer   

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

1839  On this day in history 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  On this day in history john Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus   

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 July - 03 the last pair of Great Auks is killed.   

1846  Achilles Alferaki, composer on this day in history.   

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

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 July - 03.   

1855  On July - 03 piotr Maszynski, composer   

1860  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist on July - 03.   

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

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 this day in history friedrich Ernst Koch, composer   

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  Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) was born on July - 03.   

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

1676  On July - 03 birth of leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)   

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 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 July - 03.   

1642  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1778  On July - 03 jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies