Historical Events
Conference of Interest
Jul 6 National Black convention meets in Rochester NY, ex-slave Frederick Douglass attends
- Jul 6 William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel", 1st novel by an African American
Event of Interest
Jul 8 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade
Event of Interest
Jul 14 US President Franklin Pierce opens the "Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations" (a World's Fair), at the Crystal Palace in New York City (now site of Bryant Park)
- Jul 18 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal
NY Central Park Created
Jul 21 Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island
- Jul 25 Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californian bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed by California Rangers
First Surgery Under Kerosene Lamp
Jul 31 First night time surgery performed at Lychakiv Hospital in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine), using new kerosene oil lamps invented by Ignacy Łukasiewicz [1]
Famous Birthdays
Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902)
Jul 5 British businessman, diamond merchant and imperialist politician who was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1890-96), born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England
- Jul 7 Albert Vandal, French historian (Le Pacha Bonneval), born in Paris, France (d. 1910)
- Jul 18 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (electromagnetic radiation, Nobel 1902), born in Arnherm, Netherlands (d. 1928)
- Jul 20 George Poggenbeek, Dutch painter, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1903)
- Jul 22 Victor Roger, French vaudeville-opérette composer (Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette), born in Montpellier, France (d. 1903)
- Jul 23 William Gillette, American stage and silent film actor (Sherlock Holmes), and playwright (Secret Service), born in Hartford, Connecticut, (d. 1937)
- Jul 27 Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (The Blind Musician), born in Zhitomir, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1921)
- Jul 29 Esther de Boer-van Rijk, Dutch actress (Kniertje-Hope of Blessing), born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1937)
- Jul 29 Henry Morton Dunham, American organist, composer, and educator (New England Conservatory), born in Brockton, Massachusetts (d. 1929)
