On this day: 1 July
Events, births and deaths on 1 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Jimmy Swaggart
- Deaths · Alex Delvecchio
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Robin Hardy
- Events · Hsiung Feng III missile mishap
100 years ago1926
- Births · Robert Fogel
- Births · Fernando J. Corbató
- Births · Hans Werner Henze
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1109 · Deaths · Alfonso VI of León and Castile
- 1097 · Events · Battle of Dorylaeum
Events · 49
- 1097(Julian date)Battle of Dorylaeum — 1097 Part of the First Crusade
- 1431Battle of La Higueruela — 1431 battle of the Reconquista
- 1543(Julian date)Treaty of Greenwich — 1543 treaty between England and Scotland
- 1569(Julian date)Union of Lublin — 1569 union of Poland and Lithuania
- 1643Westminster Assembly — seventeenth-century council for reforms within the English Church
- 1690(Julian date)Battle of the Boyne — 1690 battle
- 1690Battle of Fleurus — battle in the Nine Years' War between France and the Grand Alliance (1690)
- 1782Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia — 1782 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1823Federal Republic of Central America — former country in Central America (1823–1839/1841)
- 1862Battle of Malvern Hill — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1863Battle of Gettysburg — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1867New Brunswick — province of Canada
- 1870United States Department of Justice — United States federal executive department
- 1885Congo Free State — area in Central Africa controlled by Leopold II of Belgium (1885–1908)
- 1898Battle of San Juan Hill — 1898 decisive battle of the Spanish–American War
- 19031903 Tour de France — cycling race
- 19041904 Summer Olympics — Games of the III Olympiad, celebrated in Saint Louis (United States) in 1904
- 1916Battle of the Somme — battle of the Western Front, World War I
- 1916Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 — Shark attacks in the US
- 1916First day on the Somme — start of the Battle of Albert as initial part of Battle of the Somme
- 1917Kerensky Offensive — 1917 Last Russian offensive of WW1
- 1917Manchu Restoration — attempt to restore the monarchy in China by Zhang Xun
- 1925National Government of the Republic of China — Kuomintang-ruled government of the Republic of China between 1925 and 1948
- 1931Third Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet — 1931 military campaign during the Chinese Civil War
- 1932Australian Broadcasting Corporation — state-funded independent national public broadcaster of Australia
- 1942First Battle of El Alamein — 1942 battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
- 1944Bretton Woods Conference — international conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA in July 1944
- 1946Operation Crossroads — pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946
- 1947Philippine Air Force — air warfare branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
- 1960President of Ghana — head of state and head of government of Ghana
- 1960Somali Republic — newly independent Somali state (1960–1969)
- 1962Burundi — sovereign state in Africa
- 1966People's Liberation Army Rocket Force — Strategic missile force of China's military
- 1967Taipei — special municipality and capital city of Taiwan
- 1968Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons — international treaty limiting the spread of nuclear weapons
- 1982Chiayi City — provincial city in Southern Taiwan
- 19831983 Chosonminhang Ilyushin Il-62 crash — 1983 passenger aircraft crash near Labé, Guinea
- 1997Hong Kong — city and special administrative region of China
- 1997handover of Hong Kong — transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China
- 1998Public Television Service Foundation — operator of public television services in Taiwan
- 2002International Criminal Court — intergovernmental organization and international tribunal
- 2002Überlingen mid-air collision — 2002 aviation accident in Germany
- 2003Hakka TV — television channel
- 20082008 riot in Mongolia — 2008 rioting in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia
- 20132013 enlargement of the European Union — event on 1 July 2013 where Croatia joined the European Communities
- 2016Hsiung Feng III missile mishap — naval accident in Penghu, Taiwan
- 20191 July 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protest — Hong Kong protests
- 2020United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement — North American trade bloc
- 2021July 1 police stabbing — 1 July 2021 Hong Kong incident
Births · 60
- 1481(Julian date)Christian II of Denmark — king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- 1506(Julian date)Louis II, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia — King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1506–1526)
- 1534(Julian date)Frederick II of Denmark — King of Denmark and Norway (1534–1588)
- 1742Georg Christoph Lichtenberg — German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
- 1788Jean-Victor Poncelet — French engineer and mathematician (1788-1867)
- 1804George Sand — French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
- 1818Ignaz Semmelweis — Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865)
- 1872Louis Blériot — French aviator, inventor and engineer (1872–1936)
- 1873Alice Guy-Blaché — French film director (1873–1968)
- 1879Léon Jouhaux — French trade unionist (1879–1954)
- 1899Charles Laughton — British-American actor (1899–1962)
- 1899(Julian date)Konstantinos Tsatsos — Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic (1899–1987)
- 1902William Wyler — Swiss-German-American director and producer (1902–1981)
- 1903Amy Johnson — pioneering English aviator (1903–1941)
- 1906Estée Lauder — American businesswoman (1906–2004)
- 1911Sergey Sokolov — Soviet military commander (1911-2012)
- 1914Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr — Iraqi president (1914–1982)
- 1916Olivia de Havilland — British actress (1916–2020)
- 1918Ahmed Deedat — South African writer and orator (1918–2005)
- 1921Seretse Khama — First President of Botswana (1921–1980)
- 1924Antoni Ramallets — Spanish footballer (1924–2013)
- 1925Farley Granger — American actor (1925–2011)
- 1926Robert Fogel — American economist and historian (1926–2013)
- 1929Gerald Edelman — American biologist (1929–2014)
- 1930Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada — President of Bolivia
Deaths · 60
- 1109(Julian date)Alfonso VI of León and Castile — King of León (1065 to 1109), of Castile (1072 to 1109), and of Galicia (1071 to 1109)
- 1224(Julian date)Hōjō Yoshitoki — 2nd Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate
- 1242(Julian date)Chagatai Khan — second son of Genghis Khan and Börte (1183–1242)
- 1277(Julian date)Baibars — 4th Sultan of Egypt from 1260 to 1277
- 1321María de Molinillo — Queen consort of Castile and León
- 1592Marc'Antonio Ingegneri — Italian composer
- 1614Isaac Casaubon — Classical scholar and philologist (1559–1614)
- 1681(Julian date)Oliver Plunkett — Irish archbishop, martyr and saint; (1629-1681)
- 1736Ahmed III — 23th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1703–1730)
- 1749William Jones — Welsh mathematician who named 'pi' (1675–1749)
- 1782Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham — British Prime Minister (1730-1782)
- 1784Wilhelm Friedemann Bach — German composer, organist, harpsichordist (1710-1784)
- 1787Charles, Prince of Soubise — Marshal of France (1715-1787)
- 1824Lachlan Macquarie — Scottish British army officer and New South Wales colonial administrator (1762-1824)
- 1839Mahmud II — 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808–1839)
- 1860Charles Goodyear — American inventor (1800-1860)
- 1863John F. Reynolds — United States Army general (1820-1863)
- 1876Mikhail Bakunin — Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher (1814–1876)
- 1884Allan Pinkerton — Scottish-American civil war detective and spy
- 1896Harriet Beecher Stowe — American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)
- 1905John Hay — American statesman (1838–1905)
- 1912Harriet Quimby — American aviator, screenwriter (1875-1912)
- 1925Erik Satie — French composer and pianist (1866-1925)
- 1934Ernst Röhm — German Nazi politician, military officer and leader of the Sturmabteilung (1887-1934)
- 1944Tanya Savicheva — Russian diarist (1930–1944)
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