Events in History
Victory in Battle
Napoléon Bonaparte
- Jul 16 La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva. The first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo
- Jul 27 Battle of Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army
- Jul 30 British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren
- Jul 31 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia
Birthdays in History
- Jul 8 Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja)
- Jul 10 Friedrich August Quenstedt, German geologist and paleontologist, born in Eisleben, Saxony (d. 1889)
- Jul 28 Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, American astronomer and Union Major General, born in Union County, Kentucky (d. 1862)
- Jul 30 Charles Chiniquy, Canadian Catholic priest who left the Roman Catholic Church and became a Presbyterian minister, born in Kamouraska, Quebec (d. 1899)
Deaths in History
- Jul 6 Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)