WHAT HAPPENED ON 23. JULY
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A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios. (23. July 1319)

Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France. (23. July 1632)

Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden. (23. July 1677)

Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France. (23. July 1793)

While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Minor Asia coasts. (23. July 1821)

In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter. (23. July 1829)

Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio. (23. July 1833)

The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union. (23. July 1840)

American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army. (23. July 1862)

Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India. (23. July 1874)

The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires. (23. July 1881)

The Ford Motor Company sells its first car. (23. July 1903)

The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans. (23. July 1908)

Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will accept all but one of those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28. (23. July 1914)

Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. (23. July 1926)

The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay. (23. July 1927)

The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. (23. July 1929)

In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties. (23. July 1936)

The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (23. July 1940)

The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened. (23. July 1942)