Historical Events
- Jul 4 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Maine, US
- Jul 10 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Massachusetts
- Jul 17 Italian fleet under Admiral Count Carlo Pellion di Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa
- Jul 20 Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy
- Jul 21 Cholera epidemic kills hundreds in London
- Jul 23 Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
- Jul 24 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
- Jul 25 25th US Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wisconsin takes office
- Jul 25 David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral in US Navy
General Grant
Jul 25 Ulysses S. Grant named 1st General of Army
- Jul 26 Canoe Club opens in England
Landing of the Atlantic Cable
Jul 27 First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 3 Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter, born in Stege, Møn, Denmark (d. 1906)
- Jul 11 Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
- Jul 11 Richard Beer-Hofmann, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 1945)
- Jul 23 Francesco Cilea, Italian orchestral and opera composer (L'arlesiana; Adriana Lecouvreur), born in Palmi< Calabria, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1950)
- Jul 25 Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist, born in London (d. 1947)
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
Jul 28 English children's author and illustrator (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), born in London
Famous Deaths
- Jul 11 James Henry Lane, US General during Civil War (Union) and Senator (Kansas), commits suicide at 52
- Jul 20 Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies at 39
- Jul 20 Emilio Faà di Bruno, Italian naval captain, goes down with his ship (Re d'italia) in the Battle of Lissa at 46
- Jul 23 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, English composer, dies at 83
- Jul 25 Aloys Schmitt, German pianist, composer and music theorist (Preparatory Exercises, Op. 16), dies at 77
