Historical Events
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Millard Fillmore sworn in as President of US (replacing Taylor)
- Jul 12 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
- Jul 14 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie
- Jul 15 John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's
- Jul 17 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
- Jul 19 American cargo ship 'Elizabeth', returning from Italy, wrecks in a storm of coast of Fire Island, New York, killing 10, including journalist Margaret Fuller, her husband, and child [1]
- Jul 23 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K. Hall of NY takes office
- Jul 25 Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 3 Alfredo Keil, Portuguese composer, born in Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal (d. 1907)
- Jul 4 Ole Olsen, Norwegian composer, organist, and military bandleader, born in Hammerfest, Finnmark, Norway (d. 1927)
- Jul 11 Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1938)
- Jul 12 Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist, born in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (d. 1912)
- Jul 15 Frances Xavier Cabrini [Mother Cabrini], Italian-American saint (1st American saint, founded Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart), born in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy (d. 1917)
- Jul 18 Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (Curfew Must Not Ring) and writer, born in Mishawaka, Indiana, Kansas (d. 1939)
- Jul 20 John G. Shedd, American businessman (President of Marshall Field & Company, 1906-22), civic leader, and philanthropist (Shedd Aquarium), born in Alstead, New Hampshire (d. 1926)
Famous Weddings
Stephen Foster
Jul 22 American composer Stephen Foster (24) weds Jane Denny McDowell (20) at Trinity Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Famous Deaths
Robert Peel (1788-1850)
Jul 2 British Prime Minister (Tory/Conservative/Peelite: 1834-35; 1841-46), founder of the British Conservative Party and the modern police force (Bobbies), dies after falling from a horse at 62
- Jul 4 William Kirby, English entomologist and original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, dies at 90
- Jul 8 Prince Adolphus, British fieldmarshall1st Duke of Cambridge, 7th son of George III (b. 1774)
- Jul 9 Bab [Shirazi, Sayyid Ali Muhammad], Persian founder of Babism, executed by firing squad on orders of the Persian government at 30
Zachary Taylor (1784-1850)
Jul 9 12th US President (1849-50) and major general in the Mexican–American War, dies in the White House of an unknown digestive ailment at 65 after reportedly consuming copious amounts of raw fruit and iced milk
- Jul 12 Robert Stevenson, Scottish civil engineer (Bell Rock Lighthouse, Scotland), dies at 78
- Jul 14 August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
- Jul 19 Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis and revolutionary, dies in a shipwreck
- Jul 19 Margaret Fuller [Ossoli], American feminist writer (Woman in the Nineteenth Century) and journalist (NY Tribune), drowns at 40 after being shipwrecked off Fire Island, NY
- Jul 28 Stefano Pavesi, Italian opera composer (Ser Marcantonio), dies at 71
