What Happened in July 1835

Historical Events

Jul 8 Liberty Bell cracks (again)

Jul 13 Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design

Jul 22 Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia is consecrated, originally commissioned by Elizabeth of Russia

Jul 10 Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (Souv de Moscou), born in Lubin, Poland (d. 1880)
Jul 27 Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate 1906 regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy, born in Pietrasanta, Italy (d. 1907)
Jul 28 José Garcia Robles, Spanish composer, born in Olot, Spain (d. 1910)
Jul 29 Joe Coburn, Irish boxer (Heavyweight C'ship of America 1863-65), born in Middletown County, Armagh, Ireland (d. 1890)
Jul 31 Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912)
Jul 31 Paul du Chaillu, French-American explorer who the 1st modern explorer to confirm existence of gorillas and pygmies [birth year disputed], born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1903)

Jul 8 British Earl of Lovelace, William King (30) weds British mathematician Ada Byron (19), later known as Ada Lovelace, until her death in 1852

Jul 6 4th Chief Justice of the United States (1801-35), dies at 79

Jul 12 David Douglas, Scottish botanist (Douglas fir), dies from falling in to a pit trap while surveying Mauna Kea in Hawaiʻi at 35
Jul 28 Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)