- Jul 3 Dow Jones publishes its 1st stock index, the Dow Jones Transportation Average
- Jul 4 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
- Jul 5 German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon
- Jul 5 US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
- Jul 10 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out
- Jul 15 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 4 consecutive Wimbledon titles for William Renshaw; beats Herbert Lawford 6-0, 6-4, 9-7
- Jul 19 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maud Watson becomes inaugural female champion by beating her sister Lillian Watson 6–8, 6–3, 6–3
- Jul 21 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's
- Jul 27 The East Cleveland Street Railway Company begins the first U.S. commercial electric streetcar line in Cleveland, Ohio, on the Bentley-Knight system
Event of Interest
Jul 29 Society of Independent Artists founded in Paris by Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac
Georges Seurat
- Jul 30 Nonpareil Dempsey [John Edward Kelly] fights George Fulljames, possibly the 1st middleweight fight with boxing gloves