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On July 1, 69: Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.

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Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.

AD 69 (LXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the consulship of Galba and Vinius. The denomination AD 69 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Born on July 1

Daniela Avanzini 2004– American singer and dancer (born 2004)
Tate McRae 2003– Canadian singer and dancer (born 2003)
Storm Reid 2003– American actress (born 2003)
Chosen Jacobs 2001– American actor
Lalu Muhammad Zohri 2000– Indonesian sprinter
Chloe Bailey 1998– American singer (born 1998)
Susan Bandecchi 1998– Swiss tennis player (born 1998)
Aleksandra Golovkina 1998– Lithuanian figure skater (born 1998)
Adelina Sotnikova 1996– Russian figure skater (born 1996)
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Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo 1995– Belgian footballer (born 1995)
Savvy Shields 1995– American beauty pageant winner
Taeyong 1995– South Korean rapper and singer (born 1995)
Chloé Paquet 1994– French tennis player (born 1994)
Aaron Sanchez 1992– American baseball player (born 1992)
Lucas Vázquez 1991– Spanish footballer (born 1991)
Michael Wacha 1991– American baseball player (born 1991)
Kent Bazemore 1989– American basketball player (born 1989)
Hannah Murray 1989– English actress

People

Died on July 1

Alex Delvecchio Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1931–2025)
Jimmy Swaggart American television evangelist (1935–2025)
Ismail Kadare Albanian writer (1936–2024)
Robert Towne American screenwriter, producer, director and actor (1934–2024)
Dilano van 't Hoff Dutch racing driver (2004–2023)
Louis Andriessen Dutch composer and pianist (1939–2021)
Bogusław Schaeffer Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist (1929–2019)
Robin Hardy British film director and writer (1929–2016)
Val Doonican Irish singer (1927–2015)
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Czesław Olech Polish mathematician (1931–2015)
Nicholas Winton British banker and humanitarian (1909–2015)
Jean Garon Canadian politician (1938–2014)
Stephen Gaskin American activist (1935–2014)
Bob Jones British politician and police commissioner (1955-2014)
Anatoly Kornukov Russian general (1942–2014)
Walter Dean Myers American children's book author (1937–2014)
Sidney Bryan Berry US Army general officer
Charles Foley American inventor

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Every July 1 on record

  1. 69 Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.

    Calendar year

    AD 69 (LXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the consulship of Galba and Vinius. The denomination AD 69 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 552 Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.

    Battle of the Gothic War in 552 AD

    The Battle of Taginae or Battle of Busta Gallorum took place in July of 552 AD, where Byzantines led by Chamberlain Narses defeated the Ostrogoths (Goths) under King Totila. The Byzantine victory paved the way for the Byzantine reconquest of the Italian Peninsula and the dissolution of the Gothic kingdom.

  3. 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.

    Early battle during the First Crusade

    The Battle of Dorylaion or Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade on 1 July 1097 between the crusader forces and the Seljuk Turks, near the city of Dorylaion in Anatolia. Though the Turkish forces of Kilij Arslan nearly wiped out the Crusader contingent of Bohemond of Taranto, other Crusaders arrived just in time to reverse the course of the battle.

  4. 1431 The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.

    1431 battle of the Reconquista

    The Battle of La Higueruela was fought in the vega of the river Genil near Granada on 1 July 1431 between the forces of John II of Castile, led by Álvaro de Luna, and troops loyal to Muhammed IX, Nasrid Sultan of Granada. The battle was a modest victory for the forces of Castile, with no territorial gain and failing to take Granada. Following this battle, John II of Castile installed Yusuf IV, grandson of Muhammed VI, as Sultan of Granada.

  5. 1520 Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.

    Spanish and Portuguese colonizers of the Age of Discovery

    Conquistadors or conquistadores were Spanish and Portuguese colonizers who explored, traded with, and colonized many parts of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania during the Age of Discovery. Sailing beyond the Iberian Peninsula, they established numerous colonies and trade routes, and brought much of the New World under the dominion of Spain and Portugal.

  6. 1523 Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
  7. 1569 Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
  8. 1643 First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
  9. 1690 War of the Grand Alliance: Marshal de Luxembourg triumphs over an Anglo-Dutch army at the battle of Fleurus.
  10. 1690 Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
  11. 1766 François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
  12. 1770 Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).
  13. 1782 Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
  14. 1819 Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
  15. 1823 The five Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica declare independence from the First Mexican Empire after being annexed the year prior.
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  1. 1837 A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
  2. 1841 Thomas Lempriere and James Clark Ross carve a marker on the Isle of the Dead in Van Diemen's Land to measure tidal variations, one of the earliest surviving benchmarks for sea level rise.
  3. 1855 Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
  4. 1858 Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
  5. 1862 The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
  6. 1862 Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
  7. 1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
  8. 1863 Slavery was abolished in the Dutch colony of Surinam, a date now celebrated as Ketikoti in independent Suriname.
  9. 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
  10. 1867 The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
  11. 1870 The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
  12. 1873 Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
  13. 1874 The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
  14. 1878 Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
  15. 1879 Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.

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