July
- Battle of the Boyne, 1690.
- Battle of the Marston Moor, 1644.
Vichy Government set up in France, 1940. - Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec, 1608.
Battle of Gettysburg ended, 1863. - Declaration of Independence, 1776.
- George Sand born, 1804.
P.T. Barnum born, 1810. - John Huss burned at the stake, 1415.
- Sir Thomas More executed, 1535.
Mathew Calbraith Perry opens up Japan, 1853. - Vasco da Gama leaves Portugal to find way to India, 1497.
Jean de la Fontaine born, 1621. - League of Augsburg, 1686.
John D. Rockefeller born, 1839. - John Calvin born, 1509.
William of Orange murdered, 1584. - Robert Bruce born, 1274.
Alexandria bombarded by the British, 1882. - Julius Caesar born, 100 B.C.
Tsar Nicholas murdered by Bolsheviks, 1918. - Acre taken by Crusaders, 1191.
Charlotte Corday murders Jean Marat, 1793. - Fall of the Bastille, 1789.
- First Crusade takes Jerusalem, 1099.
Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt born, 1606. - Reciprocal excommunication of Greek and Roman Churches, 1054.
Tsar Nicholas II executed, 1918. - Spanish Civil War began, 1936.
- Vatican Council proclaims papal infallibility, 1870.
- Edgar Degas born, 1834.
First Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y., 1848. - Francesco Petrarch born, 1304.
Capt. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, 1969. - Universal Inquisition established in Rome, 1542.
Battle of the Pyramids, 1798. - Bretton Woods Conference ends, 1944.
- Haile Selassie born, 1892.
- Simon Bolivar born, 1783.
- George Stephenson constructs first effective steam locomotive, 1814.
- George Bernard Shaw born, 1856.
- Battle of Bouvines, 1214.
Revolution breaks out in Paris, 1830. - Johann Sebastian Bach died, 1750.
Maximilien Mavie Isidore Robespierre guillotined, 1794. - Spanish Armada destroyed, 1588.
- Hussite revolt in Prague, 1419.
Henry Ford born, 1863. - Battle of Ypres began, 1917.
Weimar Constitution adopted, 1919.
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