Historical Events
American Women Demand Their Rights
Jul 19 1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
- Jul 19 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
- Jul 23 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
- Jul 25 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
- Jul 29 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 9 Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1907)
- Jul 15 Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (Pareto’s law of income distribution, popularised the term 'elite'), born in Paris, France (d. 1923)
- Jul 16 Henri Viotta, Dutch conductor and composer (Lexicon of Music), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1933)
W. G. Grace (1848-1915)
Jul 18 English cricket batsman and captain (22 Tests; 2 x 100, HS 170; 54,896 runs over record 44 FC seasons; Gloucestershire CCC), born in Bristol, England
Arthur Balfour (1848-1930)
Jul 25 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1902-05) and Foreign Secretary (Balfour Declaration), born in Whittingehame House, East Lothian, Scotland
- Jul 27 Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium, born in Guttstadt, Province of Prussia (now Warmia in Poland) (d. 1916)
- Jul 27 Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (introduced idea of molecular surface tension), born in Buda, Hungary (d. 1919)
- Jul 27 Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1933)
- Jul 31 Jean Robert Planquette, French composer (Bells of Corneville), born in Paris (d. 1903)
