Historical Events
- Jul 1 1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent)
Historic Event
Jul 1 The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society
Meeting of Interest
Jul 20 Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour
- Jul 23 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
- Jul 26 Baron Lionel de Rothschild becomes the 1st Jewish person elected to the British Parliament
- Jul 28 First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service
- Jul 28 French photographer and balloonist Nadar takes the 1st airborne photo, in a balloon, of French village of Petit-Becetre 80 meters in the air
- Jul 29 Treaty of Amity and Commerce/Harris Treaty signed between US and Japan opening Japanese ports to trade
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 5 Maria "Marie" Bakker, Dutch actress and wife of Maarten Stranger, (d. 1917)
- Jul 9 Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (Mind of Primitive Man), born in Minden, Westphalia, Prussia (d. 1942)
- Jul 10 Karl Flodin, Finnish composer and critic, born in Vassa (d. 1925)
- Jul 13 Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
Emmeline Pankhurst
Jul 15 Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette who formed the Women's Social & Political Union (1903), born in Moss Side, Manchester (d. 1928)
- Jul 16 Eugene Ysaye, Belgian composer and violinist, born in Liège (d. 1931)
- Jul 20 Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
- Jul 21 Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
- Jul 21 Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain, born in Židlochovice Castle, Moravia (d. 1929)
- Jul 21 Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist, born in Sandhurst, Victoria (d. 1941)
- Jul 24 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920), born in NYC, New York (d. 1922)
- Jul 26 Tom Garrett, Australian cricket all-rounder (19 Tests, TS 51no, 34 wickets; NSW CA), born in Wollongong, Australia (d. 1943)
- Jul 31 Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1936)