Events in History
- Jul 10 President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
- Jul 13 Source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft
- Jul 14 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
- Jul 24 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming's South Pass
- Jul 25 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Massachusetts, kills 1
- Jul 26 HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo
Birthdays in History
Maximilian I
Jul 6 Maximilian I of Mexico and Archduke of Austria, first and only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire, born in Vienna, Austria
Maximilian I
- Jul 10 Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (Sirius B), born in Fall River, Massachusetts (d. 1897)
- Jul 11 Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (Prime Minister of Greece for 7 times from 1875-1895), born in Nafplion, Greece (d. 1896)
- Jul 21 Henrietta Maria Morse King, American rancher and philanthropist, born in Boonville, Missouri (d. 1925)