30th July 1792: La Marseillaise, the future French national anthem, first sung in Paris by a group of volunteer soldiers from the city of Marseille
La Marseillaise was composed by a French army officer and was originally called the ‘War Song for the Army of the Rhine’ with the aim of rallying soldiers fighting in Strasbourg during the French Revolutionary ...
30 Juli 20220s
29th July 1567: James VI crowned king of Scotland at just 13 months old
James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was forced to abdicate in favour of her young son a month after she was ...
29 Juli 20220s
28th July 1914: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
Exactly one month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary declared war on ...
28 Juli 20220s
27th July 1942: Allied forces in North Africa stop the advancing Axis powers in the First Battle of El Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein continued for nearly 4 weeks and saw both sides launch attacks and counter-attacks, eventually ending in stalemate with both sides taking time to reorganise and ...
27 Juli 20220s
26th July 1745: First ever women’s cricket match played near Guildford
The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in ...
26 Juli 20220s
25th July 1965: American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival
Having come to prominence in the early 1960s with songs that chronicled the social situation in the USA, Dylan’s dramatic shift away from his traditional instruments of acoustic guitar and harmonica was said to have, ‘electrified one half of his audience, and electrocuted the ...
25 Juli 20220s
24th July 1927: Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is unveiled
On the 24th July 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was unveiled in the Belgian city of ...
24 Juli 20220s
23rd July 1914: Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries
The ultimatum was delivered at 6pm on 23 July by the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Belgrade, with a deadline of 48 hours within which the Serbian government had to respond. The accepted all but one of the ...
23 Juli 20220s
