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- 1794 – James Monroe and his family sailed for France; they arrived on July 31. Thomas Jefferson sent Monroe to join Robert Livingston to try to purchase New Orleans and West Florida for as much as $10 million.
- 1845 – Colonel Nimrod Bramham, a prominent Charlottesville merchant and politician in the mid-19th century, died. His plantation Oak Lawn, built in 1822, is now bounded by Fry's Spring on the west and Ridge Street on the east.
- 1903 – The Widow's Sons' Masonic Lodge laid the cornerstone to the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue.
- 2012 – Following years of stalled construction, the skeletal Landmark Hotel on the Downtown Mall is sold at auction for $6.25 million to developer John Dewberry.