WHAT HAPPENED ON 3. JULY
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Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. (3. July 324)

Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792. (3. July 987)

William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087. (3. July 1035)

Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain. (3. July 1608)

French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces. (3. July 1754)

Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. (3. July 1767)

Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published. (3. July 1767)

American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. (3. July 1775)

American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre. (3. July 1778)

The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens. (3. July 1819)

The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students. (3. July 1839)

The last pair of Great Auks is killed. (3. July 1844)

Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans. (3. July 1848)

The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification. (3. July 1849)

Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco. (3. July 1852)

American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge. (3. July 1863)

Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria. (3. July 1866)

Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average. (3. July 1884)

Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile. (3. July 1886)

The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. (3. July 1886)