6th » The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
16th » The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Monarchy of Spain or Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo
Famous Birthdays on July in 1809
10th » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)
30th » Charles Chiniquy, Canadian-American priest (d. 1899)
Famous Deaths for July 1809
3rd » Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
6th » Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, French general (b. 1775)
14th » Nicodemus the Hagiorite, Greek monk and saint (b. 1749)
28th » Richard Beckett (cricketer) e.g Richard Beckett, English cricketer and captain (b.1772)