Page 2: Historical Events In July - 26

1758  On this day in history british battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg   

1759  On this day in history french troops vacate Ticonderoga NY   

1760  On this day in history austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie   

1770  On July - 26 michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65   

1775  On this day in history the Post Office is esablished by the Continental Congress with Ben Franklin as postmaster general.   

1775  On this day in history united States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin   

1782  On July - 26 john Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes)   

1788  On July - 26 new York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution   

1788  On this day in history new York ratifies the U.S. Constitution.   

1788  NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution on this day in history.   

1790  On July - 26 uS passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts   

1791  On July - 26 franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM   

1796  George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes) on July - 26.   

1799  On this day in history isaac Babbitt, invented babbitt's metal for bearings   

1801  John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy), died in 1867 on July - 26.   

1801  On this day in history daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86   

1802  Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician on this day in history.   

1803  The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London on July - 26.   

1805  On this day in history naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die   

1805  Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock) on this day in history.   

1812  On July - 26 frigate Essex captures British brig Leander   

1820  On this day in history john Marshall Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864   

1822  Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar & Jose de San Martin on July - 26.   

1826  On July - 26 vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews   

1826  Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82 on July - 26.   

1829  August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94) (Nobel-1909) on this day in history.   

1832  On this day in history hMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo   

1835  The first sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii on this day in history.   

1835  1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii on July - 26.   

1836  Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.   

1842  Alfred Marshall, London, economist on this day in history.   

1847  Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society on July - 26.   

1847  On this day in history liberia, setled in Africa by freed U.S. slaves, becomes the first African colony to become an independent state.   

1848  The first Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY) on July - 26.   

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1030  Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079) was born on July - 26.   

1467  On this day in history birth of ferdinand II, King of Naples   

1678  Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11) was born on July - 26.   

1694  On this day in history birth of johann Samuel Endler, composer   

1739  On July - 26 birth of george Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12)   

1782  On this day in history birth of john Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes)   

1791  Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM was born on July - 26.   

1796  On July - 26 birth of george Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)   

0796  Death of Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796) on July - 26.   

0811  On July - 26 nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle   

1342  Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies on this day in history.   

1380  On this day in history death of emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)   

1471  Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1533  On July - 26 atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies   

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima on July - 26.   

1592  Death of Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524) on this day in history.