* 1779 July – Start of the Great Siege of Gibraltar ( fourteenth and last military siege ).

France recaptured Grenada between 2-4 July 1779 during the American War of Independence, after Comte d ' Estaing stormed Hospital Hill.

A British relief force was defeated in the naval Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779.

Stiles ' greatest challenge occurred in July 1779 when hostile British forces occupied New Haven and threatened to raze the College.

* July 27 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer ( d. 1779 )

DePeyster wrote that this poem was a speech that he had made at the Indian village of Abercroche ( now Harbor Springs, Michigan ) on July 4, 1779.

He unsuccessfully attacked a French fleet under the Comte d ' Estaing at the Battle of Grenada in July 1779.

The birth of a daughter meant that pressure to have a male heir continued, and Marie Antoinette wrote about her worrisome health, which might have contributed to a miscarriage in July 1779.

2, 600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon, governor of New York, raided the 3, 500-person town in July 1779, but did not torch it as they had with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, leaving many of the town's colonial features preserved.

On July 16, 1779, in a bayonets-only night attack lasting thirty minutes, three columns of light infantry, the main attack personally led by Wayne, stormed British fortifications at Stony Point, a cliffside redoubt commanding the southern Hudson River.

When he surprised the British garrison at Stony Point on July 15, 1779, he acquired the nickname “ Mad ” Anthony.

His wife watched from their home as, on the morning of July 7, 1779, approximately 2, 000 enemy troops landed on Fairfield Beach near Pine Creek Point and proceeded to invade the town.

On July 11, 1779, Norwalk, Connecticut was burned by the British Tories under Governor Tryon.

Ezra Stiles's map of the British forces invading New Haven, Connecticut, July 1779

William Hedley ( 13 July 1779 – 9 January 1843 ) was born in Newburn, near Newcastle upon Tyne.

The prisoners were eventually brought to Halifax, where they were later released upon signing an oath of allegiance to the British Crown on 28 July 1779.

Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn ( ; Cockpen, Midlothian, 26 October 1779 – Bonaly, Midlothian, 26 April / 18 July 1854 ) was a Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure.

Jeremiah Dixon ( July 27, 1733 – January 22, 1779 ) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is perhaps best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason-Dixon line.

* 1779 – Battle of Stony Point ( July 16 )

Andrew Pickens, Jr. ( December 13, 1779 – July 1, 1838 ) was an American military and political leader who served as the 46th Governor of South Carolina from 1816 until 1818.

In early July 1779, the British learned of plans for a major American expedition into Iroquois Seneca country.

After stopping at Onaquaga, Brant attacked and defeated American militia at the Battle of Minisink on July 22, 1779.

* July 28-Stefano Pavesi, composer ( b. 1779 )

On July 5, 1779, the British invaded New Haven Harbor and came ashore in West Haven and East Haven.

This may just be pride in my adopted State of Washington, but certainly I love to visit their mound cities near Yakima and Prosser in July or August, when the bees are in their most active period.

Washington, July 24

He formally requested reinstatement as I Corps commander, but Meade refused, and Doubleday left Gettysburg on July 7 for Washington.

Cup-type anemometer with vertical axis, a sensor on a remote meteorological station deployed on Skagit Bay, Washington ( state ) | Washington July – August, 2009.

* 1924: Fred Beck claimed that he and four other miners were attacked one night in July 1924, by several " apemen " throwing rocks at their cabin in an area later called Ape Canyon, Washington.

*" Port Of Missing Ships Claims 3000 Yearly ", The Washington Post, July 10, 1921.

*" Search Continues For Vessel With 55 Aboard In Caribbean ", The Washington Post, July 6, 1963.

*" Body Found In Search For Fishing Boat ", The Washington Post, July 7, 1963.

The following season, 1910, he won his 500th career game on July 23 against Washington.

* Miguel Martinez ( BS )-former member of the New York City Council representing the 10th District in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill areas until his resignation on 14 July 2009.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

The French responded by attacking and capturing Washington at Fort Necessity in July 1754.

Washington assumed command of the Continental Army in the field at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in July 1775, during the ongoing siege of Boston.

By 1798, relations with France had deteriorated to the point that war seemed imminent, and on July 4, 1798, President Adams offered Washington a commission as lieutenant general and Commander-in-chief of the armies raised or to be raised for service in a prospective war.

Following his Washington visit Holt went on to London and in a speech there given on 7 July he was sharply critical of the UK, France and other U. S. allies that had refused to commit troops to the Vietnam War.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

In July 2008, the Washington Times reported that nearly a fourth of the 540 Indian Parliament members faced criminal charges, " including human trafficking, immigration rackets, embezzlement, rape and even murder ".

Jordan signed a nonbelligerency agreement with Israel ( the Washington Declaration ) in Washington, DC, on July 25, 1994.

Fireworks in Washington, DC, to celebrate Independence Day on July 4

He was also the Host of the 230th July 4, 2006 of the PBS July 4 " A Capitol Fourth " Celebrations in Washington, D. C. in which he sang, danced, and played tuned drums.

In a July 28, 2008, op-ed in The Washington Times, he wrote that he regretted his youthful anti-war activism, calling it the result of " Marxist propaganda.

" On July 28, 2008, he wrote an editorial in The Washington Times critical of then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.