WHAT HAPPENED ON 15. JULY
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First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege. (15. July 1099)

The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem. (15. July 1149)

King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton. (15. July 1207)

Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. (15. July 1240)

John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England. (15. July 1381)

Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald – the allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order. (15. July 1410)

Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada. (15. July 1482)

Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685. (15. July 1685)

Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska. (15. July 1741)

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris. (15. July 1789)

The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. (15. July 1799)

Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west. (15. July 1806)

Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon. (15. July 1815)

A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy. (15. July 1823)

The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years of terror. (15. July 1834)

Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage. (15. July 1838)

Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union. (15. July 1870)

Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories. (15. July 1870)

The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (15. July 1888)

In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. (15. July 1910)