Editing July 3 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] &ndash; [[Québec City]] is founded by [[Samuel de Champlain]].
*[[1754]] &ndash; [[French and Indian War]]: [[George Washington]] [[Battle of Fort Necessity|surrenders Fort Necessity]] to [[Military history of France|French forces]].
*[[1767]] &ndash; [[Pitcairn Island]] is discovered by [[Midshipman]] Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by [[Philip Carteret]].
*  1767   &ndash; Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, ''[[Adresseavisen]]'', is founded and the first edition is published.
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[George Washington]] takes command of the [[Continental Army]] at [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].
*[[1778]] &ndash; American Revolutionary War: The Iroquois, allied with Britain, killed 360 people in the [[Wyoming Valley massacre]].
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York]], the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
*[[1839]] &ndash; The first state [[normal school]] in the United States, the forerunner to today's [[Framingham State University]], opens in [[Lexington, Massachusetts]] with three students.
*[[1848]] &ndash; Governor-General [[Peter von Scholten]] emancipates all remaining slaves in the Danish West Indies.
*[[1849]] &ndash; France invades the [[Roman Republic (1849)|Roman Republic]] and restores the [[Papal States]].
*[[1852]] &ndash; Congress establishes the [[San Francisco Mint|United States' 2nd mint]] in [[San Francisco]].
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The final day of the [[Battle of Gettysburg]] culminates with [[Pickett's Charge]].
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Austro-Prussian War]] is decided at the [[Battle of Königgrätz]], enabling Prussia to exclude Austria from German affairs.
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Dow Jones & Company]] publishes its first stock average.
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Karl Benz]] officially unveils the [[Benz Patent-Motorwagen]], the first purpose-built automobile.
*  1886   &ndash; The ''[[New-York Tribune]]'' becomes the first newspaper to use a [[linotype machine]], eliminating [[typesetting]] by hand.
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Idaho]] is admitted as the 43rd [[U.S. state]].
*[[1898]] &ndash; A Spanish squadron, led by [[Pascual Cervera y Topete]], is defeated by an American squadron under [[William T. Sampson]] in the [[Battle of Santiago de Cuba]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Marley|first=David|title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2008|isbn=9781598841008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DkgGVTOr2EsC|pages=602-603|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|chapter=Santiago de Cuba, Naval Battle of (July 3, 1898)|title=U.S. Leadership in Wartime: Clashes, Controversy, and Compromise. Volume 1|editor-last=Tucker|editor-first=Spencer C.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2009|isbn=9781598841725|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEkFzIWjdn4C|pages=404-406}}</ref>