- Jul 1 -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia
- Jul 1 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee's northward advance halted
- Jul 1 Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3 cents per oz
- Jul 1 Slavery abolished in Suriname and Dutch Antilles
- Jul 2 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
- Jul 2 R Morgan's: Burksville, Kentucky to Salineville, Ohio [->JUL 26]
- Jul 3 Battle of Donaldsonville, Louisiana
- Jul 3 Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War
- Jul 4 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
- Jul 4 Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
Event of Interest
Jul 4 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee
- Jul 4 Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
- Jul 4 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
- Jul 5 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi and Battle of Birdsong Ferry, Mississippi
- Jul 6 Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07]
- Jul 6 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
- Jul 7 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
Event of Interest
Jul 7 Orders barring Jews from serving under US General Ulysses S. Grant are revoked
Ulysses S. Grant
- Jul 9 John Hunt Morgan's cavalry aid into Indiana [->JUL 13]
- Jul 9 Union troops enter Port Hudson
- Jul 10 Battle of Charleston, South Carolina (Morris Island) [->SEP 06]
- Jul 10 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi - captured by federals [->JUL 16]
- Jul 11 Battle at Green River, Kentucky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
- Jul 11 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
- Jul 12 In New Zealand, British forces invade Waikato, home of the Maori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the wars between Maori and Colonial British
- Jul 13 Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
- Jul 13 Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana
- Jul 13 Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi (Harrisburg) [->JUL 15]
- Jul 13 Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio [->JUL 26]
- Jul 14 Battle of Falling Waters, Maryland (Beaver Creek)
- Jul 14 Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
- Jul 15 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army
- Jul 16 Utrecht-Swells railway opens
- Jul 17 Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
- Jul 17 Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
- Jul 18 Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina - Second assault
- Jul 19 Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio
- Jul 23 Alexandra Park opens in North London
- Jul 24 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
- Jul 25 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
- Jul 26 Battle of Salineville Ohio, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender
Event of Interest
Jul 30 President Abraham Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
Abraham Lincoln
- Jul 30 Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah