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July 24 in history

217 sourced entries recorded on July 24, from 64 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 64July 18- 27 – Great Fire of Rome: A fire begins which destroyed three of fourteen of the administrative regions of Rome, more commonly known as the Palatine Hill, the Circus Maximus, and the Oppian hill. Also suffering severe damage were the Campus Martius and the Via Lata.source
  • 661Emperor Tenji ascends to the throne of Japan after his mother Empress Saimei’s death. He sends an expeditionary force under Abe no Hirafu to Korea, to help the allied kingdom of Baekje.source
  • 1132Battle of Nocera: Rebel Normans under Count Ranulf II defeat the Sicilian forces, led by King Roger II. Seven hundred knights are captured, and Roger is forced to retreat to Salerno.source
  • 1148Zangid forces under Sayf al-Din arrive at Homs. Mu'in al-Din Unur sends a letter of ultimatum to the Crusader leaders to lift the siege of Damascus. Meanwhile, guerrilla attacks demoralise the Crusaders.source
  • 1162Emperor Gaozong of Song becomes embroiled in war again as hostilities resume with the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty (or "Great Jin") after 21 years of peace. Another peace treaty is signed, Gao abdicates the throne in favor of his adopted son Xiaozong. The smaller Southern Song empire becomes richer than the Song dynasty.source
  • 1194Emperor Guangzong of Song (or Zhao Dun) is forced to abdicate the throne to his 25-year-old son Ningzong, who succeeds him as ruler of the Song dynasty. During his reign, he will be dominated by his prime-minister Han Tuozhou (or Han T'o-Chou).source
  • 1216Albigensian Crusade: French forces under Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, besiege Castle Beaucaire in May. After three months, the occupants are running low on supplies and surrender to Raymond.source
  • 1216Albigensian Crusade: The occupants of Castle Beaucaire running low on supplies and surrender to French forces under Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, after being besieged for three months.source
  • 1221Pelagius moves the Crusader forces near Ashmun al-Rumman, on the opposite bank from Mansoura. Queen-Regent Alice of Cyprus and leaders of the military orders warn Pelagius of a large Muslim army being formed in Syria. Meanwhile, the Egyptian army under Al-Kamil crosses the Nile near Lake Manzaleh and establishes themselves between the Crusader camp and Damietta. In the Ushmum canal at Sheremsah, Al-Kamil's ships sail down the Nile and block the Crusaders' line of communications to Damietta. In August, Pelagius orders a retreat, but the route is cut off by Egyptians.source
  • 1263July 20–24 – Nahmanides, Spanish chief rabbi, defends the Talmud in an important debate (the Disputation of Barcelona) against Pablo Christiani, before James I of Aragon.source
  • 1304Siege of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England captures the Scottish rebel stronghold at Stirling. The castle is for four months bombarded by twelve siege engines. During the siege, Edward orders his engineer, Master James of St. George, to build a massive engine called the Warwolf. Eventually, William Oliphant and his garrison surrender.source
  • 1321A marriage contract is signed on behalf of Princess Euphemia, the 4-year-old sister of King Magnus of Sweden and Norway, and daughter of the regent Ingeborg of Norway, to eventually marry Albert of Mecklenburg the 3-year-old son of Henry I, Lord of Mecklenburg. The marriage will not take place until almost 15 years later.source
  • 1341general resumption of all grants made since the death of Edward I.source
  • 1375Despite an appeal by Pope Gregory XI to cities in Tuscany to remain allied to the Catholic Church in a war with the Republic of Florence, the city of Pisa enters a defensive alliance with the Visconti family of Florence and supplies are sent by Florence for lance-bearing soldiers, as well as archers and infantry as part of a federation of Tuscan communes.source
  • 1394General Paolo Savelli of the Republic of Venice and Giovanni Colonna, Lord of Palestrina, attempt a coup d'etat to overthrow the government of Rome and the rule of Pope Urban VI by attacking Capitoline Hill, but fail to get support.source
  • 1411Battle of Harlaw in Scotland: Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and an army commanded by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, battle to a bloody draw.source
  • 1412Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.source
  • 1440At Basel in Switzerland, Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy is crowned as "Pope Felix V" by Roman Catholic cardinals of the Council of Basel who had voted to depose Pope Eugene IV as leader of the Roman Catholic Church. As Felix V, he is designated in Vatican history as the last "antipope". He remains in Basel and never travels to Rome to assume the papacy; in 1449, after the death of Eugene IV, Amadeus assumes an oath of loyalty to Eugene's successor, Pope Nicholas V.source
  • 1465Henry of Lancaster, the former King Henry VI of England, is imprisoned in the Tower of London by order of King Edward IV. His queen consort Margaret of Anjou and Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, have fled to France.source
  • 1468(5th waxing of Wagaung, 830 ME) At Pyay (now in Myanmar) Thihathura of Ava becomes the new Burmese King of Ava upon the death of his father, Narapati I of Ava.source
  • 1469The royalist Yorkists are defeated by rebels at the Battle of Edgcote in Northamptonshire, and King Edward IV is taken prisoner. Rebel leader Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, temporarily holds power to rule England but in September, Edward IV is freed and returns to the throne.source
  • 1481Fire destroys the roof and the spires of Reims Cathedral.source
  • 1500Ottoman–Venetian War: The Turkish fleet of Kemal Reis defeats the Venetians in the Second Battle of Lepanto.source
  • 1505Travelling to India, a group of Portuguese explorers led by Francisco de Almeida, with 22 ships and 1,500 men, sack the city-state of Kilwa in East Africa, killing the Emir Abraham for failing to pay tribute. Almeida installs Mohammed Ankoni as the new ruler.source
  • 1526Milan is captured by the Spanish.source
  • 1536Three days after the arrival of the peacekeeping team in Lyon, and 15 days after the legation had met with the Holy Roman Emperor to avoid war, troops of the Holy Roman Empire invade France, crossing over the Var river from Nizza in Italy (now Nice in France) as well as invading Picardie with a second force.source
  • 1542Guelders Wars: Maarten van Rossum leaves Antwerp, having failed to take it by siege.source
  • 1543The Secret Bond is made, during controversy over the move of Mary, Queen of Scots, from Linlithgow Palace to Stirling Castle.source
  • 1557The Edict of Compiègne is issued by King Henri II of France, providing for the death penalty to be applied to Protestants for a variety of crimes, including a relapse after having renounced Protestantism; unauthorized travel to Geneva; publication of Protestant books; possessing graven images; and unauthorized participation in Protestant religious gatherings, whether public or private.source
  • 1567Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate, and replaced by her one-year-old son James VI.source
  • 1567Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots (at Lochleven Castle), in favour of her 1-year-old son James VI.source
  • 1569Huguenot forces under Gaspard II de Coligny and 15-year-old Prince Henry of Navarre begin the siege of Poitiers, a Roman Catholic stronghold. The siege fails and the Huguenots depart on September 7.source
  • 1575July 20–26 – Rathlin Island Massacre: English adventurers Francis Drake and John Norreys, acting for the Earl of Essex, lead an expedition that culminates in the massacre of 500 of the clan MacDonnell in a surprise raid on Rathlin Island.source
  • 1580Portuguese succession crisis of 1580: António, Prior of Crato, a grandson of the late King Manuel by Manuel's second son, the Duke of Beja is proclaimed King of Portugal by his supporters in the city of Santarém, and popular acclamation follows in Lisbon and other locations. Portugal's parliament, the Cortes, refuses to acknowledge Antonio and he is defeated 32 days later at Alcântara.source
  • 1593Raid of Holyrood, the rebel Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell infiltrates Holyrood Palace.source
  • 1599Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is dethroned by his uncle Duke Charles, who takes over as regent of the realm until 1604, when he becomes King Charles IX.source
  • 1604Anders Lauritsson Green becomes Chancellor of Norway.source
  • 1606King Christian IV of Denmark, as the guest of his brother-in-law, King James of England, Scotland and Ireland, is welcomed at London, and the two monarchs are driven by coaches to a banquet at Theobalds House at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. They are entertained by playwright Ben Jonson's play, The Entertainment of the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark.source
  • 1612Marcantonio Memmo is elected as the Doge of the Republic of Venice on the first ballot of the Venetian council, winning 38 of the 41 votes. Memmo succeeds the late Doge Leonardo Donato, who died on July 16.source
  • 1630The Sibbald baronets British nobility title is created.source
  • 1660The Great Fire of 1660 begins in Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul in Turkey), and destroys two-thirds of the city over two consecutive days, consuming 280,000 buildings and killing 40,000 people.source
  • 1669During an attempt by a fleet of French Navy ships to stop the siege of Candia by bombardment of Ottoman positions on the island of Crete, the arsenal of gunpowder on the French flagship, the 56-gun warship Thérèse, catches fire and explodes. Out of 350 crew on the Thérèse, only seven survive. Demoralized, the remaining French commanders halt the bombardment and the fleet withdraws.source
  • 1671Awashonks, the female sachem who leads the Sakonnet Indians in what is now the U.S. state of Rhode Island, signs a peace agreement with the English leaders of the neighboring Plymouth Colony (now part of Massachusetts), along with chiefs Totatomet, Tattacommett and Somagaonet.source
  • 1673Edmund Halley enters The Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate.source
  • 1675July 16–24 – An envoy from Massachusetts attempts to negotiate with the Nipmuck tribe.source
  • 1682the office of Third Serjeant-at-law at the Irish Bar is created, the first holder being John Lyndon.source
  • 1684René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sails again from France, with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.source
  • 1687Morean War: Battle of Patras – The Republic of Venice defeats the Ottomans, which flee in panic, allowing the Venetians to capture the fortresses of Patras, Rio, Antirrio, and Lepanto unopposed.source
  • 1700Charles XII of Sweden counter-attacks his enemies by invading Zealand (Denmark), assisted by an Anglo-Dutch naval squadron under Sir George Rooke, rapidly compelling the Danes to submit to peace.source
  • 1701A French emporium named Fort Ponchartrain is founded along the west side of the Detroit River in North America, and later becomes the site of the city of Detroit.source
  • 1701Foundation of a French emporium named Fort Ponchartrain (later to become Detroit).source
  • 1702Camisard hostilities begin in France with the assassination at le Pont-de-Montvert of a local embodiment of royal oppression, François Langlade, the Abbé of Chaila.source
  • 1702A total eclipse of the sun is visible on a path crossing the northern Pacific Ocean and Central America.source
  • 1712Battle of Denain: The French defeat a combined Dutch-Austrian force.source
  • 1712Battle of Villmergen: The Reformed cantons of Switzerland defeat the Catholic cantons.source
  • 17151715 Treasure Fleet: A Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships, under General Don Juan Ubilla, leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida (some centuries later, treasure salvage is found from these wrecks).source
  • 1719Nyköping is burned during the Russian Pillage of 1719–1721.source
  • 1753The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities is founded by Queen Louisa Ulrika.source
  • 1779American Revolutionary War – American forces, led by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall, launch the Penobscot Expedition in what is now Castine, Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U.S. history, until surpassed by the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.source
  • 1779American Revolutionary War: American forces led by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall launch the Penobscot Expedition in what is now Castine, Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U.S. military history until Pearl Harbor.source
  • 1779American Revolutionary War: the Penobscot Expedition ends in defeat for the Americans.source
  • 1783The Treaty of Georgievsk is signed between Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti, making Georgia a protectorate of Russia.source
  • 1788Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from the Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City, divides the British Province of Quebec into five Districts, namely: Gaspé, Nassau, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Hesse.source
  • 1797Horatio Nelson is wounded at the Battle of Santa Cruz, losing an arm.source
  • 1810Paraguay governor Bernardo de Velasco and the Cabildo of Asunción declare their loyalty to Ferdinand VII of Spain and break up their relationship with Buenos Aires.source
  • 1819Governor Macquarie appoints Butler a justice of the peace for New Zealand.source
  • 1819A cabinet meeting is convened by British Prime Minister Lord Liverpool to discuss a report of an adulterous affair involving the wife of George, Prince of Wales, the regent for his ailing father King George III. Despite reports that Princess Caroline is involved with her servant, Bartolomeo Pergami, the cabinet concludes that the trial of Caroline for adultery would be an embarrassment to the nation.source
  • 1819A cabinet meeting convened by Prime Minister Lord Liverpool discusses an investigative report of an adulterous affair involving Caroline of Brunswick (wife of the regent George, Prince of Wales) and her servant Bartolomeo Pergami; the cabinet concludes that the trial of Caroline for adultery would be an embarrassment to the nation.source
  • 1832Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains using the South Pass (Wyoming).source
  • 1834The Liberal Wars end in Portugal.source
  • 1847After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City in what becomes Utah.source
  • 1856HDMS Heimdal is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.source
  • 1862Explorer John McDouall Stuart successfully returns from crossing the Australian continent from north to south on his third attempt.source
  • 1866Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.source
  • 1867Law on Sociétés anonymes.source
  • 1867July 24 − Reykjavik Shooting Association, Iceland's oldest sport association is foundedsource
  • 1874Third Carlist War: Sack of Cuenca – After Carlist forces successfully defend Estella, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, brother of the Don Carlos VII, leads 14,000 Catalan Carlists south to attack Cuenca (136 km from Madrid), held by Republicans under Don Hilario Lozano. After two days the outnumbered garrison capitulates, but Don Alfonso permits a terrible slaughter. The city is sacked. Subsequently, another republican force defeats the disorderly Catalans, who flee back to the Ebro.source
  • 1874Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first incandescent lamp, with an electric light bulb.source
  • 1883Campos dos Goytacazes, in the province of Rio de Janeiro, is the first city in Brazil to have street lights.source
  • 1895The Government decides to present the evidence of former Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti about the role of current Prime Minister Crispi in the Banca Romana scandal and other matters – known as the "Giolitti envelope" –, to the Chamber of Deputies and have a special commission examine them. In June 1895, the French newspaper Le Figaro had published the package of documents compromising Crispi with evidence that he had concealed financial transactions and debts contracted by Crispi, his family and friends with the Banca Romana from the parliamentary inquiry in 1893.source
  • 1899In the first trade treaty signed by the U.S. after the passage of the Dingley Act, France and the United States sign an agreement for a 20% reduction of France's existing tariffs on 635 items, in return for the U.S. reduction between 5% and 20% of duty fees on 126 items.source
  • 1900July 23 – 25 – The First Pan-African Conference is held in London.source
  • 1901Peter Adler Alberti is appointed Minister for Iceland.source
  • 1905The 1905 Bolnai earthquake (8.4 magnitude) strikes Mongolia, the second-largest on record here.source
  • 1907The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control.source
  • 1908July 13–25 – The 1908 Summer Olympics are held in London. (Originally scheduled to be in Rome, but changed due to the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 1906. Figure skating events are held in London from October 28–29.)source
  • 1908Italian Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon (run from Windsor Castle to London) in one of the most dramatic arrivals in Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards for receiving assistance; victory is awarded to Irish-American Johnny Hayes.source
  • 1910Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.source
  • 1911Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu in Peru.source
  • 1914The Buckingham Palace conference ended in failure. Nationalists and Unionists present could not agree in principle or in detail.source
  • 1915Steamer SS Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.source
  • 1915The steamer Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.source
  • 1917Construction of the Yilan line began.source
  • 1923The Treaty of Lausanne (1923), settling the boundaries of the modern Republic of Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War, bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire after 624 years.source
  • 1927The Menin Gate is dedicated as a war memorial at Ypres, Belgium.source
  • 1927The Legion of the Archangel Michael, a precursor to the Iron Guard, is founded by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.source
  • 1929The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).source
  • 1929Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways, on 1 February 1934.source
  • 1933Arne Hamarsland, middle-distance runnersource
  • 1935The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures in Chicago to a record-high 109 °Fsource
  • 1936Carmelite Martyrs of Guadalajara: 3 nuns are shot dead by the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War).source
  • 1938The north face of the Eiger in the Alps is first ascended.source
  • 1941Workers began an illegal strike at the Alcan aluminum complex at Arvida, Quebec, when 700 workers walk off the job. Some 4,500 workers occupy the factory the next day. Minister of Munitions and Supply C.D. Howe says that enemy sabotage was responsible for the work stoppage, and soldiers are sent to secure the facility. Work resumes on July 29 as workers and management negotiate, assisted by federal conciliators. A subsequent royal commission rejects the sabotage theory and finds that the strike was the result of worker dissatisfaction with wages and working conditions, as well as a heat wave that occurred immediately before the strike.source
  • 1947The National Icelandic Association Football team lost 2-4 to the Norwegian team in an international friendly, with an attendance of 10,000 fans at Melavollur.source
  • 1949July 24 (St John's Day) – Eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma begins.source
  • 1954Blesilda Ocampo is placed Top 15 of Miss Universe 1954 at Long Beach, California, USA. She is the first Filipina finalist.source
  • 1957Influenza outbreak in the port of Valparaíso. Between August and September it would expand to all of Chile.source
  • 1958Fourteen life peerages, the first under the Life Peerages Act 1958, are created in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1959At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, United States Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev engage in the "Kitchen Debate".source
  • 1960According to Japan National Police Agency official confirmed report, a charter bus collision with regular route bus, charter bus plunge into cliff in mountain road, Mount Hiei, Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, 28 person were perish, 16 person were hurt.source
  • 1964John Harris, a schoolteacher, explodes a bomb at Park Station, killing 77-year-old Ethel Rhys and injuring 23 others.source
  • 1965Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are targeted by antiaircraft missiles, in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other 3 sustain damage.source
  • 1965Miss Thailand Apasra Hongsakula won the crown title of the Miss Universe 1965 held in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.source
  • 1966A USAF F-4C Phantom #63-7599 is shot down by a North Vietnamese SAM-2 45 mi northeast of Hanoi, the first loss of a U.S. aircraft to a Vietnamese surface-to-air missile in the Vietnam War.source
  • 1966U.N. Secretary General U Thant visits Moscow.source
  • 1967During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians.source
  • 1968July 23–28 – Black militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in the Glenville Shootout of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States, leaving 7 people killed.source
  • 1969The Soviet Union returns British lecturer Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for their spies Peter and Helen Kroger (Morris and Lona Cohen).source
  • 1969Apollo program: Apollo 11 returns from the first successful Moon landing and the astronauts are placed in biological isolation for several days in case they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to rule out microscopic life.source
  • 1971Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a State of Emergency to allow the touring South African Springboks football team to play.source
  • 1971Georgina Rizk of Lebanon is crowned Miss Universe 1971.source
  • 1972Jigme Singye Wangchuck succeeds his father Jigme Dorji Wangchuck as King of Bhutan.source
  • 1977July 21–24 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, sparked by a Libyan raid on Sallum, begins.source
  • 1978In Acapulco, Mexico, Margaret Gardiner of South Africa is crowned Miss Universe.source
  • 1981American mediator Philip Habib brokered a cease-fire between Israel and the PLO, temporarily halting the Lebanese Civil War.source
  • 1981July 23–29 – Strong temperature drops are recorded in much of the country. Snow falls in cities like La Serena and Copiapó, where previously thought impossible.source
  • 1983The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000 Sri Lankan Tamils and Hill-country Tamils.source
  • 1984Arieh Sharon (born 1900), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli architect.source
  • 1985A Colombian Air Force cargo plane that was acting as a commercial passenger plane during a pilot's strike crashes near Leticia during a rainstorm, killing the estimated 80 people who were on board.source
  • 19881988 Thai general election – victory for the Thai Nation Party, which won 87 of the 357 seats. Voter turnout was 63.6%.source
  • 1991Finance Minister of India Manmohan Singh announces a new industrial policy, marking the start of economic liberalisation in India.source
  • 1995July 21–26 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Chinese People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.source
  • 1996A train is bombed in Dehiwala, killing 42 and wounding 400. The LTTE was claimed responsible for the attack, placing suitcase bombs in four carriages on a commuter train.source
  • 1998Russell Eugene Weston Jr. enters the United States Capitol Building and opens fire, killing two members of the United States Capitol Police, Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson.source
  • 1998The Ministry of Finance announced the acquisition of POSBank by DBS Bank in a push to consolidate Singapore's banks into stronger banks, as well as cater to changing consumer profiles. The acquisition will make DBS Bank the largest Southeast Asian bank and largest retail bank in Singapore with S$93 billion in assets. The POSBank brand will be retained too. The acquisition is completed on 16 November 1998.source
  • 1999July 22–25 – Woodstock '99 was held in Rome, New York at former Griffiss Air Force Base, which was marred with difficult environmental conditions, poor sanitation, overpriced food and water, looting, violence, rapes, riots and several deaths.source
  • 2000July 11–25 – A summit meeting takes place at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat, ending without an agreement.source
  • 2001Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, deposed as the last Tsar of Bulgaria when a child, is sworn in as the democratically elected 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria.source
  • 2001Bandaranaike Airport attack: The Tamil Tigers bomb the Bandaranaike International Airport in Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War.source
  • 2001Bandaranaike Airport attack: The LTTE launch a bold attack on Bandaranaike Airport. This would be one of the boldest attacks launched by the organization to date. Multiple aircraft ranging from civilian airlines to military helicopters were destroyed and damaged, and the nation's tourist industry was greatly affected.source
  • 2003The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, led by Australia, begins after ethnic violence engulfs the island country.source
  • 2003The eastern half of the A13 motorway (the collectrice du Sud), part of E29, is opened between Hellange and Schengen, including a 600-metre viaduct across the border to meet Germany's A8.source
  • 2004The Mexican government files charges against former President of Mexico Luis Echeverría for his role in the 1971 Corpus Christi massacre.source
  • 2005The 55th Vuelta a Colombia begins in Pitalito, Huila.source
  • 2007Five Bulgarian nurses are released from Libyan prison after eight and a half years spent behind bars in Benghazi and Tripoli, marking the end of the so-called "HIV trial in Libya".source
  • 2013Michael Ikpoki, former CEO of MTN Ghana has been named as the new chief executive officer of MTN Nigeria.source
  • 2013July 22–28 – XIV World Youth Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.source
  • 2014Air Algérie Flight 5017, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, crashes in Mali, killing all 116 people on board.source
  • 2014July 23–August 3 – The 2014 Commonwealth Games takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.source
  • 2015Turkey begins a series of airstrikes against PKK and ISIL targets after the 2015 Suruç bombing.source
  • 2018Law Minister Sher Bahadur Tamang resigns after making controversial remarks regarding female medical students in Bangladesh.source
  • 2019Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May.source
  • 2025Armed conflicts break out between Cambodia and Thailand after the escalation of a border dispute. At least 39 people are killed and more than 100,000 displaced due to the conflicts.source
  • 2025Honduras mandates face masks again in public spaces amid a spike in respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19, and orders temporary remote work for state institutions.source
  • 2025Angara Airlines Flight 2311, operated by an Antonov An-24 aircraft, crashes near Tynda in Eastern Siberia, Russia. All 48 people on board are killed.source

Births

  • 1056Al-Muqtadi, caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (died 1094)source
  • 1088Ibn al-Arif, Moorish Sufi scholar and writer (died 1141)source
  • 1190Yelü Chucai, Chinese statesman (died 1244)source
  • 1242Christina von Stommeln, German mystic (died 1312)source
  • 1468Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (died 1524)source
  • 1529Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (died 1577)source
  • 1561Maria of the Palatinatesource
  • 1660Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (died 1718)source
  • 1686Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (died 1739)source
  • 1689Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne (died 1700)source
  • 1696Benning Wentworth, Colonial governor of New Hampshire (died 1770)source
  • 1725John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (died 1807)source
  • 1775Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal and private detective agent (died 1857)source
  • 1783Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (died 1830)source
  • 1802Alexandre Dumas, French author (died 1870)source
  • 1803Adolphe Adam, French composer (died 1856)source
  • 1827Francisco Solano López, President of Paraguay (died 1870)source
  • 1841Francisco da Veiga Beirão, politician (died 1916)source
  • 1853William Gillette, American actor, playwright and stage-manager (died 1937)source
  • 1878Lord Dunsany, Irish author (died 1957)source
  • 1897Amelia Earhart, American aviator (died 1937)source
  • 1964Barry Bonds, African-American baseball playersource
  • 1968Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singersource
  • 1969Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singersource

Deaths

  • 661Kōgyoku (also Saimei), twice empress of Japan (born 594)source
  • 759King Oswulf of Northumbria is murdered by members of his own household (his servants or bodyguards), at Market Weighton. The Deiran patrician, Æthelwald Moll, who probably conspired in the regicide, is crowned king of Northumbria. He may have been a descendant of the late king Oswine of Deira.source
  • 759Oswulf, king of Northumbriasource
  • 811Gao Ying, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (born 740)source
  • 946Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, ruler of Egypt (born 882)source
  • 1115Matilda, margravine of Tuscany (born 1046)source
  • 1115Matilda, margravine of Tuscany, dies at Bondeno. During her reign she waged an intermittent war with Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, over the inheritance rights of her fiefs in Lombardy and Tuscany.source
  • 1129Former Emperor Shirakawa dies at his native Kyoto. His son Toba begins his cloistered rule, sharing power with Sutoku, a grandson of Shirakawa.source
  • 1129Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (born 1053)source
  • 1198Berthold of Hanover, German apostle and bishopsource
  • 1224Christina the Astonishing, Flemish saint (born 1150)source
  • 1240Conrad of Thuringia, German Grand Mastersource
  • 1292Kinga of Poland, Hungarian princess and abbess (born 1224)source
  • 1315Otto II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben, dies without leaving any heirs, bringing an end to the Principality. His assets are seized by his cousin and creditor, Bishop Albert of Halberstadt.source
  • 1345Jacob van Artevelde, Flemish statesman (born 1290) (killed by mob)source
  • 1503Louise of Savoy, member of French royal family and a Poor Clare nun (born 1461)source
  • 1564July 24 (Full moon of Wagaung 926 ME) – In Burma (now Myanmar), Min Sekkya becomes the new King of Arakan when his half-brother, King Min Saw Hla, dies at age 31 after a long illness.source
  • 1568Carlos, Prince of Asturias, son of Philip II of Spain (born 1545)source
  • 1577Blaise de Monluc, prolific French soldier. (b.1502).source
  • 1601Joris Hoefnagel (born 1542), printmakersource
  • 1629Later Jin invasion of Joseon: In the Kingdom of Joseon (now Korea), Mao Wenlong is executed for smuggling and other crimes after being captured by Ming Chinese general Yuan Chonghuan.source
  • 1680Candida Xu (1607–1680) a Chinese Catholic. She has been called "arguably the most influential Chinese Christian woman of the seventeenth century."source
  • 1699Axel Wachtmeister, Count of Mälsåker, field marshal (born 1643)source
  • 1739Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (born 1686)source
  • 1742Nikulás Magnússon, sheriff of Rangárvallasýsla, drowned in Flosagjá.source
  • 1756George Vertue, English engraver, antiquary (born 1684)source
  • 1774Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland, British baroness; eldest of the Lennox sisters (born 1723)source
  • 1802Joseph Ducreux, French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver (born 1735)source
  • 1817Karađorđe Petrović, Serb leader of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire, founder of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty (born 1768)source
  • 1862Martin Van Buren, 79, 8th President of the United States (born 1782)source
  • 1883Matthew Webb, English sailor, first recorded person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids (born 1848)source
  • 1920Battle of Maysalun: The French defeat the Syrian army, whose leader Yusuf al-'Azma is killed. French troops occupy Damascus and depose Faisal I of Syria as king.source
  • 1964A minor criticality accident takes place at a United Nuclear Corporation Fuels recovery plant in Wood River Junction, Rhode Island, United States, causing the death of one worker.source
  • 1967July 23–31 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.source
  • 1980Peter Sellers, 54, British actor (Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther) and comedian (The Goon Show), heart attack.source
  • 1980Uttam Kumar, 53, Indian actor, filmmaker and composer, heart attack.source
  • 2010Alex Higgins, 61, Northern Irish snooker player, malnutrition, pneumonia, bronchial condition and throat cancer.source
  • 2025Hulk Hogan, 71, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (WWF, WCW) and actor (Suburban Commando), heart attack.source