Historical Events
Conference of Interest
Jul 19 1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Jul 19 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
- Jul 23 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
- Jul 25 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
- Jul 29 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 9 Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
- Jul 15 Vilfredo F D Pareto, Italian economist/sociologist
- Jul 16 Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music)
- Jul 18 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
- Jul 19 Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller)
- Jul 22 Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
Arthur Balfour
Jul 25 Arthur Balfour, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1902-05) and Foreign Secretary (Balfour Declaration), born in Whittingehame House, East Lothian, Scotland (d. 1930)
Arthur Balfour
- Jul 27 Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist
- Jul 27 Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, born in Buda, Hungary (d. 1919)
- Jul 27 Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Guttstadt, Province of Prussia (now Warmia in Poland), German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium
- Jul 31 Jean Robert Planquette, French composer (Bells of Corneville), born in Paris (d. 1903)