What Happenedin July 1854

Historical Events

Jul 6 1st Republican state convention held in Jackson, Michigan
Jul 13 In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon
Jul 13 US forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua

Jul 25 Walter Hunt receives the first U.S. patent for a paper shirt collar

Jul 3 Czechcomposer, born in Hukvaldy, Moravia, Austrian Empire

Jul 4 Heinrich Zöllner, German composer, born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1941)
Jul 4 Victor Babeş, Romanian physician and bacteriologist, born in Vienna, Austrian Empire (d. 1926)
Jul 10 James T. Kelley, Irish actor (The Rink, The Immigrant), born in Castlebar, Ireland (d. 1933)

Jul 12 Americaninventor (Kodak camera) and founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, born in Waterville, New York

Jul 14 Alexander Kopylov, Russian imperial composer and violinist, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1911)
Jul 19 Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1925)
Jul 29 Georg Kerschensteiner, German educational theorist (Theorie der Bildungsorganisation), born in Munich (d. 1932)
Jul 31 Jose Canalejas, premier of Spain (1910-12), born in El Ferrol, Spain (d. 1912)

Jul 6 Germanphysicist andmathematician (Ohm's law), dies at 65

Jul 13 José María Vargas, Venezuelan doctor, botanist and 2nd President of Venezuela (1835-36), dies at 68
Jul 15 Grant Cuthbert, Metis leader (led conflict with Red River settlement, settled Grant Town), dies after a fall from a horse at about 61[1]
Jul 15 Wincenty Studzinski, Polish violinist and composer, dies at 39
Jul 18 Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41
Jul 31 Samuel Wilson, American meat packer and possible namesake of Uncle Sam, dies at 87