Historical Events
Battle of Wagram
Jul 6 Battle of Wagram: After a two day battle, Napoleon's French and allied army decisively defeats the Austrian army under Archduke Charles, leads to the breakup of the Austrian and British-led Fifth Coalition against France
- 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
- 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
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 8 Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer and poet of the Illyrian movement (Pjesma iz Zagorja), born in Krapina, Kingdom of Croatia (d. 1872)
- 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)
