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On July 7, 1124: The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
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The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
Tyre is a city in Lebanon, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix, and Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984.
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1124 The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks. City in Lebanon
Tyre is a city in Lebanon, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix, and Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984.
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1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution. Posthumous appeal of Joan of Arc's conviction
The conviction of Joan of Arc in 1431 was posthumously investigated on appeal in the 1450s by Inquisitor-General Jean Bréhal at the request of Joan's surviving family—her mother Isabelle Romée and two of her brothers, Jean and Pierre. The appeal was authorized by Pope Callixtus III.
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1520 Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba. 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.
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1534 Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada. French maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
Jacques Cartier was a French maritime explorer from Brittany. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "Canada" after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona and at Hochelaga.
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1575 The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland. 1575 Anglo-Scottish border skirmish
The Raid of the Redeswire, also known as the Redeswire Fray, was a border skirmish between England and Scotland on 7 July 1575 which took place at Carter Bar, the Cheviot pass which enters Redesdale. The skirmish was between the English Warden of the Middle Marches, Sir John Forster, with George Heron, Keeper of Redesdale, Keeper of Liddesdale and Scottish Warden and Sir John Carmichael, the Lord Warden of the Marches, with George Douglas of Bonjedworth. It was the last battle between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
- 1585 The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
- 1667 An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1770 The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
- 1777 American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
- 1798 As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
- 1807 The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
- 1834 In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
- 1846 US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
- 1863 The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
- 1865 Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
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- 1892 The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
- 1898 US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
- 1900 The luxury raching yacht Idler capsizes and sinks on Lake Erie during a storm, drowning six of its seven passengers (all members of the family of Cleveland businessman James C. Corrigan).
- 1907 Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- 1911 The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
- 1915 The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
- 1915 Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
- 1916 The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
- 1928 Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
- 1930 Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
- 1930 The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities.
- 1937 The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War).
- 1937 The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
- 1941 The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.
- 1944 World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
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Holidays on July 7
- Christian feast day: Æthelburh of Faremoutiers
- Christian feast day: Felix of Nantes
- Christian feast day: Illidius
- Christian feast day: Job of Manyava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
- Christian feast day: Blesseds Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with seven children (Catholic Church)
- Christian feast day: Willibald (Catholic Church)
- Christian feast day: July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.
- Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
- Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
- Tanabata (Japan)
- World Chocolate Day
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