What is July 3?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[323]] &ndash; [[Battle of Adrianople (323)|Battle of Adrianople]]: [[Constantine the Great]] defeats [[Licinius]], who flees to [[Byzantium]] * [[533]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Tenth Milestone]]: Byzantine general [[Belisarius]] defeats the [[Vandals]] near [[Carthage]]. * [[987]] &ndash; [[Hugh Capet of France|Hugh Capet]] was crowned [[King of France]], the first of the [[Capetian]] dynasty which ruled [[France]] till the [[French Revolution]] in [[1792]]. * [[1035]] &ndash; [[William the Conqueror]] becomes [[Duke of Normandy]]. * [[1250]] &ndash; [[Louis IX of France]] is captured by [[Baibars]]' [[Mamluk]] army at the [[Battle of Fariskur]] while he is in [[Egypt]] conducting the [[Seventh Crusade]]; he later has to ransom himself. * [[1608]] &ndash; [[Quebec City]] is founded by [[Samuel de Champlain]]. * [[1721]] &ndash; Norwegian Christian missionary [[Hans Egede]] arrives in [[Greenland]] expecting to convert descendants of [[Viking]]s, not knowing of their mysterious disappearance from there. Instead he converts local [[Inuit]] to [[Christianity]]. * [[1754]] &ndash; [[George Washington]] surrenders [[Fort Necessity]] to [[France|French]] forces during the [[French and Indian War]]. He is allowed to retain his colors and march out of the fort with full honors the following day. * [[1767]] &ndash; [[Norway]]'s oldest [[newspaper]] in print, Addresseavisen, is first published. * [[1775]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[George Washington]] takes command of the [[Continental Army]] at [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. * [[1778]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley Massacre. * [[1836]] &ndash; [[Wisconsin]] becomes a separate [[US]] [[territory]] from the [[Michigan]] territory. * [[1844]] &ndash; The last pair of [[Great Auk]]s is killed in [[Iceland]]. * [[1848]] &ndash; [[Slave]]s are freed in the Danish West Indies (now [[US Virgin Islands]]) by [[Peter Scholten]]. * [[1849]] &ndash; The