• 1737-07-02 - Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, Composer
  • 1746-07-02 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, Composer
  • 1763-07-02 - Peter Ritter, Composer
  • 1793-07-02 - Antoine Prumier, Composer
  • 1810-07-02 - Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1885
  • 1814-07-02 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, Composer
  • 1821-07-02 - Charles Tupper, (C) 6th Canadian PM (1896)
 

  • 1743-07-02 - Spencer Compton Earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies
  • 1778-07-02 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66
  • 1794-07-02 - Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65
  • 1798-07-02 - John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies
  • 1822-07-02 - Denmark Vesey, & 5 aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, SC
  • 1843-07-02 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88
  • 1850-07-02 - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM / founder London Police, dies at 62
 

  • 1777-07-02 - Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery
  • 1787-07-02 - De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
  • 1794-07-02 - 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
  • 1808-07-02 - Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
  • 1843-07-02 - An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm
  • 1847-07-02 - Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps, still exists today
  • 1849-07-02 - Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike
 

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