Historical Events
- Jul 6 Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
Event of Interest
Jul 7 Toussaint Louverture declares Haitian independence
Event of Interest
Jul 16 Pope Pius VII & 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
HMS Investigator
Jul 18 HMS Investigator sets off on a voyage to determine if New Holland (Australia) is one island or two, under command of Matthew Flinders, with botanist Robert Brown and artists Ferdinand Bauer and William Westall aboard
- Jul 20 Elisha Brown Jr presses a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm
Famous Birthdays
David Farragut (1801-1870)
Jul 5 American admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), born in Campbell's Station, Tennessee
- Jul 11 John Hill Hewitt, American songwriter (A Minstrel's Return from the War), born in New York City (d. 1890)
- Jul 14 Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
- Jul 26 John Drake Sloat, 1st Military Governor of California (Union Navy), born in Sloatsburg, New York (d. 1867)
- Jul 27 George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and 7th Astronomer Royal, born in Alnwick, Northumberland, England (d. 1892)
- Jul 29 George Bradshaw, British publisher, born in Manchester, England (d. 1853)
