WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. JULY
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Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. (1. July 69)

Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fightings king Totila is mortally wounded. (1. July 552)

Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I. (1. July 1097)

The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of Castilian during the Reconquista. (1. July 1431)

Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels. (1. July 1523)

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. (1. July 1569)

First meeting of the Westminster Assembly of Divines (1. July 1653)

Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar). (1. July 1690)

Jean-François Lefebvre de la Barre was a young French nobleman, famous for having been tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary" nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. (1. July 1766)

Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u. (1. July 1770)

American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia see Raid on Lunenburg (1782). (1. July 1782)

A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales. (1. July 1837)

Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States. (1. July 1855)

Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society. (1. July 1858)

The Russian State Library is founded. (1. July 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. (1. July 1862)

American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. (1. July 1862)

Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands. (1. July 1863)

American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins. (1. July 1863)

The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. (1. July 1867)