17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg
The Romanov family were all shot or stabbed by bayonets, and their bodies were taken away in a truck and disposed of in a forest twelve miles north of the ...
17 Jul 0s
16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar
The Islamic calendar was dated to start with the first new moon after the Prophet Muhammad and his followers migrated to ...
16 Jul 0s
15th July 1099: First Crusade ends when Crusader forces capture the city of Jerusalem, after a siege lasting several weeks
After two days of fighting, the Crusaders breached Jerusalem's defences and entered the city, leading to intense fighting in the streets and buildings that led to a large-scale massacre of the city’s Muslim and Jewish ...
15 Jul 0s
14th July 1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett
American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New ...
14 Jul 0s
13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people
News reports the day after the concert stated that Live Aid had raised upwards of £40 ...
13 Jul 0s
12th July 1790: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy passed by the National Constituent Assembly of France
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy restructured the Church in France to align with the new administrative divisions of the country, bringing the Church under the control of the state and reducing the influence of the papacy in French ecclesiastical ...
12 Jul 0s
11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite
Telstar's first broadcast involved relaying an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in ...
11 Jul 0s
10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France
The Vichy government was established in France after the National Assembly approved a new French Constitutional Law that granted full powers to Marshal ...
10 Jul 0s
