Historical Events
Tsar Grants Jews Right to Publish
Jul 1 Alexander II of Russia grants Jews right to publish books
- Jul 1 Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confederate superior power driven out
- Jul 1 Battle of Malvern Hill [Poindexter's Farm], day 7 of 7 days battles, Union forces repel Confederate attack, Tactical Union victory (US Civil War)
- Jul 1 The Russian State Library is founded in Moscow
- Jul 1 US Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
- Jul 2 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
Event of Interest
Jul 4 Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on a family boat trip on the river Isis (Thames) in Oxford
Event of Interest
Jul 8 US Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act signed by Abraham Lincoln (not enforced)
Event of Interest
Jul 9 Confederate General John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky
Event of Interest
Jul 10 US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
- Jul 11 Abraham Lincoln appoints General Henry Halleck general-in-chief of Union forces in US Civil war
- Jul 12 Federal troops occupy Helena, Arkansas
- Jul 12 US Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
- Jul 13 Battle of Murfreesboro, fought in Rutherford County, Tennessee begins (Forrest's Raid), Confederate victory (US Civil War)
- Jul 15 CSS Arkansas vs USS Carondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo River
1st US Rear Admiral
Jul 16 David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy
- Jul 17 John Hunt Morgan's raid reaches Cynthiana, Kentucky
- Jul 17 Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River Mississippi: USS Potomac Expedition
- Jul 17 United army officially divides corps
- Jul 17 US army authorized to accept African-Americans as laborers
- Jul 18 Battle of Newburgh, Indiana - captured by Union forces
- Jul 20 Guerrilla campaign in Georgia (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20]
- Jul 23 President Lincoln names Army of the Potomac Gen. Henry Halleck as US Army General-in-Chief
- Jul 27 Massive typhoon hits Canton and Whampoa in China; at least 40,000 die
- Jul 27 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico
- Jul 28 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Missouri
- Jul 29 American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 2 William Henry Bragg, English physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics, 1915 - crystalline structure analysis by means of X-rays), born in Westward, Cumberland, England (d. 1942) [1]
- Jul 3 Friedrich Ernst Koch, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1927)
- Jul 11 Liza Lehmann, English composer, born in London, England (d. 1918)
- Jul 14 Florence Bascom, American geologist and 1st woman hired by the US Geological Survey, born in Williamstown, Massachusetts (d. 1945)
- Jul 14 Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (The Kiss), born in Baumgarten, Austria-Hungary (d. 1918)
- Jul 16 Ida B. Wells (-Barnett), American journalist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi (d. 1931)
- Jul 18 Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, Russian WWI general, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1933)
- Jul 18 Victor, Prince Napoléon (Napoléon V), French pretender to throne, born in Palais-Royal, Paris (d. 1926)
- Jul 31 Steve Fairbairn, British rower and coach (Jesus College Boat Club, Cambridge University), born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia (d. 1938)
Famous Deaths
Martin Van Buren (1782-1862)
Jul 24 8th President of the United States (Democrat: 1837-41), dies of heart failure at 79
