French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701.

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928 ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.

* July 6 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and explorer ( d. 2006 )

* July 1 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer ( d. 1892 )

* July 28 – Dick Sprang, American comic book artist during the golden age of comics and an explorer ( d. 2000 )

* July 17 – Jim Bridger, American explorer and trapper ( b. 1804 )

* July 20 – Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist ( d. 1873 )

* July 16 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer ( d. 1928 )

* July 21 – A Spanish expedition led by navigator and explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira makes the first European landing in Polynesia, on the Marquesas Islands.

* July 19 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia ( b. 1774 )

* July 4 – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer

* July 20 – Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792 – 1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America.

* July 7 – Ernest Giles, Australian explorer ( d. 1897 )

* July 12 – Steven Borough, English explorer ( b. 1525 )

* July 7 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer ( b. c. 1657 )

* July 28 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador and explorer ( b. c. 1460 )

* July – João da Nova, Portuguese explorer ( b. c. 1460 )

* July 21 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral returns to Lisbon from his expedition to Calicut ( Nicolau Coelho having arrived on June 23 ).

* July – Estêvão da Gama, explorer

* July 18 – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer ( b. 1432 )

Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto ( July 6 / 7, 1736 – December 19, 1788 ) was a Novo-Spanish explorer and Governor of New Mexico for the Spanish Empire.

William Grant Stairs ( 1 July 1863 – 9 June 1892 ) was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two of the most controversial expeditions in the history of the colonisation of Africa.

John Charles Frémont or Fremont ( January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890 ), was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.

William Ernest Powell Giles ( 20 July 1835 – 13 November 1897 ), best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer who led three major expeditions in central Australia.

The islands were given their name by the Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira who reached them on 21 July 1595.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

Lord Haddo has one son, Ivo Alexander Ninian Gordon, Viscount Formartine ( b. 18 July 2012 ).

By July 1942, the British and Indian forces in Burma had completed their fighting retreat back into India, and Alexander, having yet again been mentioned in despatches for his Burma service, was recalled to the United Kingdom.

The Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered by May 1943, and Alexander's command became the 15th Army Group, which was, under Eisenhower, responsible for mounting in July the Allied invasion of Sicily, again seeing Alexander controlling two armies: Montgomery's Eighth Army and George S. Patton's Seventh United States Army.

Also, in commemoration of Alexander being named the first non-aboriginal chief of the Kwakiutl tribe, he was gifted a totem pole on 13 July 1946 ; crafted by Mungo Martin, it remains on the grounds of Rideau Hall today.

On July 3, 1829, Horace Blackman, accompanied by Alexander Laverty, a land surveyor, and an Indian guide forded the Grand River and made camp for the night at what is now Trail and N. Jackson Street.

In July 1888 Wilhelm II appointed Vice-Admiral Alexander von Monts as head of the admiralty.

When Maria's eldest sister Alexandra visited Gatchina in July 1894, she was surprised to see how weak her brother-in-law Alexander III had become.

They had a son, Achilles Cyrus Alexander, born on 23 July 1825, in Palermo and baptized at San Bartolomeo's.

The formation of the second coalition government, with Alexander Kerensky as chairman, was completed on 24 July.

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In July 1961 during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 KGB chief Alexander Shelepin sent a memorandum to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev containing an array of proposals to create a situation in various areas of the world which would favor dispersion of attention and forces by the US and their satellites, and would tie them down during the settlement of the question of a German peace treaty and West Berlin.

In July 1894 he mooted his idea for The Importance of Being Earnest to Sir George Alexander, the actor-manager of St. James's Theatre.

On 1 July 1832, Jardine, Matheson and Company, a partnership, between William Jardine, James Matheson as senior partners, and Hollingworth Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Jardine's nephew Andrew Johnstone, Matheson's nephew Hugh Matheson, John Abel Smith, and Henry Wright, as the first partners, was formed in China, taking the Chinese name ' Ewo ' ( 怡和 ) pronounced " Yee-Wo " and meaning ' Happy Harmony '.

* July 29 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer ( d. 1936 )

* July 17 – Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia

* July 29 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR institutes the Order of Suvorov, the Order of Kutuzov, and reinstates the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

* July 16 – Alexander Luria, Russian nevropychologist ( d. 1977 )

* July 30 – Alexander Hall, American Theatrical Motion Picture Director ( b. 1894 )

* July 20 – James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician ( b. 1868 )

* July 10 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.

* July 31 – Louise, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, marries Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife.

* July 14 – Scottish poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw after the collapse of a Catholic plot.

* July 30 – Count Joseph Alexander Hübner, Austrian diplomat ( b. 1811 )

* July 1 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as emperor.