Historical Events
- Jul 1 The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
Event of Interest
Jul 3 Jesse James robs a bank of $45,000 in Corydon, Iowa
- Jul 5 Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and Big Tree, begins
- Jul 13 World's first championship cat show; Organised by Harrison Weir and held in Crystal Palace, London
- Jul 20 British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
- Jul 25 Carousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 3 Vicente Arregui Garay, Spanish composer, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1925)
- Jul 3 William Henry Davies, Welsh poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp), born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales (d. 1940)
- Jul 8 Clement Harris, English composer, born in London (d. 1897)
- Jul 8 Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), born in Slochteren, Netherlands (d. 1963)
- Jul 10 Marcel Proust, French intellectual and novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), born in Paris, France (d. 1922)
- Jul 11 Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (founder of Croatian People's Peasant Party), born in Desno Trebarjevo, Austria-Hungary (d. 1928)
- Jul 15 Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
- Jul 17 Lyonel Feininger, German-American cartoonist and painter, born in New York City (d. 1956)
- Jul 18 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1958)
- Jul 18 Sada Yacco [Kawakami Sadayakko], Japanese geisha and stage actress, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1946)
- Jul 22 Akos Buttykai, Hungarian composer, born in Halmeu, Romania (d. 1935)
Famous Weddings
Kate Sheppard
Jul 21 Suffragette Kate Sheppard (24) weds general merchant Walter Allen Sheppard in Christchurch, New Zealand
Famous Deaths
- Jul 5 Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess and politician, dies at 63
- Jul 6 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34
- Jul 15 Tad Lincoln, youngest son of US President Abraham Lincoln, dies at 18
- Jul 17 Carl Tausig, Polish pianist, student and protégé of Liszt, and composer noted for his transcriptions, dies of typhoid at 29
- Jul 31 Phoebe Cary, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary), dies at 46
