Events in History
Napoléon Bonaparte
- Jul 16 La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo, the 1st independent government in Spanish America
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)