Historical Events
- Jul 5 Second Battle of Buenos Aires lost by invading British forces
Napoleon Meets the Tsar
Jul 7 French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte and Russian Tsar Alexander I meet on a raft in the middle of the Neman River and sign the first Treaty of Tilsit
Treaty of Interest
Jul 9 Second Treaty of Tilsit signed by France, Russia and Prussia
Historic Invention
Jul 20 Napoleon Bonaparte grants a patent for a Pyréolophore, an early combustion engine for a boat, to brothers Nicéphore and Claude Niépce [1]
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and founder of Clemson University, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1888)
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)
Jul 4 Italian general and nationalist (Risorgimento) who helped unify Italy, born in Nice, First French Empire
- Jul 12 Silas Casey, American Major General (Union Army), born in East Greenwich, Rhode Island (d. 1882)
- Jul 22 Karolina Pawlowa, Russian writer (A Double Life), born in Yaroslavl, Russian Empire (d. 1893)
- Jul 24 Ira Aldridge, famed 19th century African American Shakespearian actor (Othello), born in New York City (d. 1867) [1]
Famous Deaths
- Jul 13 Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
