Events in History
- Jul 15 World's first steamboat the Pyroscaphe, built by Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans, makes its first voyage on the river Saône in France
- Jul 24 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
- Jul 29 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
Birthdays in History
Simón Bolívar
Jul 24 Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule), born in Caracas (d. 1830)
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