- Jul 1 Tour de France: Inaugural race begins in Montgeron, a south-eastern suburb of Paris
- Jul 2 National League MLB batting champion Ed Delahanty, disappears after being removed from a train by force, found dead at bottom of Niagara Falls 2 weeks later
- Jul 2 Pitcher Jack Doscher, debuts for the Chicago Cubs, the first son of a major leaguer to play MLB, father Herm 1882-92
Historic Communication
Jul 4 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines) opens, President Theodore Roosevelt sends a message
- Jul 6 George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco
- Jul 17 The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government
- Jul 19 1st Tour de France: French rider Maurice Garin wins inaugural event
- Jul 25 Castle on top of Telegraph Hil, San Francisco closes
- Jul 26 Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall K. Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud complete 1st automobile trip across the United States; San Francisco to New York in a 2-cylinder Winton (63 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes)