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- 1776 – The Declaration of Independence is approved by Congress. Written largely by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia, Pa.
- 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people by President Thomas Jefferson
- 1826 – Thomas Jefferson died at Monticello, fifty years after the Declaration of Independence was approved. He is buried at Monticello.
- 1826 – Henry Martin, a slave believed to have been born on the same day that Thomas Jefferson died
- 1931 – James Monroe died at age 73, thus becoming the third president to have died on Independence Day
- 1836 – The first meeting of the Society of Alumni of the University of Virginia, now known as the Alumni Association, was held in the Rotunda library
- 1936 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a radio address from Monticello