July

• Death of Charles Goodyear, American inventor

• Death of Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer

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• The first flight of a zeppelin airship

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• LNER’s Mallard became the world’s fastest steam locomotive

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• Birth of George Everest, British surveyor

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• Birth of P. T. Barnum, American showman

• Aneurin Bevan‘s National Health Service Act of 1946 came into force creating the British NHS

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• Death of Henry II, king of England

• Coronation of Richard III, king of England

• Death of Edward VI, king of England
• Accession of Mary I, queen of England

• Birth of Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

• Death of Aneurin Bevan, British politician

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• Death of Edward I, king of England

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• Death of Edgar, king of England

• Death of Alexander II, king of Scots

• Accession of Edward II, king of England

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• Abdication of John Balliol, king of Scots

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• Birth of Robert I, king of Scots

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• Roger Mortimer, second earl of March, was knighted by Edward, the Black Prince

• Death of Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

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• Inauguration of Alexander III, king of Scots

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• The Pioneer 10 spacecraft entered the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter

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• Coronation of Richard II, king of England

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• Accession of Edward the Martyr, king of England

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• Death in an aircrash of Raymonde de Laroche, French pilot

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• Coronation of George IV, king of the United Kingdom

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• Death of Dubh, king of Scots

• Death of James Doohan, Canadian Actor

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• Abdication of Mary I, queen of Scots
• Accession of James I (VI) as king of Scots

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• Coronation of James I (VI) as king of England

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• Coronation of James I (VI) as king of Scots

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