July 1 Historical Events

The following events took place on July 1. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 91 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 69
  Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
• 552
  Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fighting king Totila is mortally wounded.
• 1097
  Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
• 1431
  The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.
• 1523
  Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
• 1569
  Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
• 1643
  First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians (“divines”) and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1690
  Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
• 1766
  Jean-François de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire’s Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
• 1770
  Lexell’s Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
• 1782
  Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
• 1837
  A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
• 1855
  Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
• 1858
  Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society in London.
• 1862
  The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.

• 1862
  Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
• 1862
  American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign.
• 1863
  Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
• 1863
  American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
• 1867
  The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
• 1870
  The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
• 1873
  Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
• 1874
  The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
• 1878
  Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 1879
  Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
• 1881
  The world’s first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• 1881
  General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• 1885
  The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• 1890
  Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
• 1898
  Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.