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Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944 ) was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history.

Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ( December 11, 1806 – July 1, 1886 ) was a German mineralogist and geologist.

* impedance ( July 1886 );

More was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised, with John Fisher, on 19 May 1935 by Pope Pius XI, and his feast day was established as 9 July.

Westinghouse applied for a patent for the new design in December 1886 ; it was granted in July 1887.

Tyrus Raymond " Ty " Cobb ( December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961 ), nicknamed " The Georgia Peach ," was an American Major League Baseball outfielder.

In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times ( 1868 – 1874, 1880 – 1885, February – July 1886 and 1892 – 1894 ), more than any other person.

Back in office in early 1886, Gladstone proposed Irish Home rule but this was defeated in the House of Commons in July.

* July 16 – Alfred Junge, German-born art director ( b. 1886 )

* July 17 – Campbell Tait, Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( b. 1886 )

* July 17 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player ( b. 1886 )

* July 6 – Zhu De, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief ( b. 1886 )

* July 7 – Gottfried Benn, German poet ( b. 1886 )

Westinghouse applied for a patent for the new design in December 1886 ; it was granted in July 1887.

The term impedance was coined by Oliver Heaviside in July 1886.

During a storm on July 10, 1886, the former Mississippi River boat captain and circus owner ran his steamboat, the 35-ton Reutan, onto a sandbar off Chicago's north shore near the foot of Superior Street.

A storm did not smash Streeter's ship into a sandbar on the night of July 10, 1886.

Eventual foreclosure and sale of the original Denver and Rio Grande Railway resulted within two years and the new Denver and Rio Grande Railroad took formal control of the property and holdings on July 14, 1886 with Jackson appointed as president.

* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )

* Papewes ( Papaway-‘ Lucky Man ’, Chief of the Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), born in the late 1830s near Fort Pitt, was in the 1870s a leader of Mistahimaskwa ´ s Plains River Cree, as the bison disappeared, signed along with Little Pine on the 2nd July 1879 for the 470 members of his tribal group an annex to the Agreement No. 6 at Fort Walsh, in vain he asked for a reserve in the Cypress Hills and the Buffalo Lake, so many members went back to Mistahimaskwa (" Big Bear ") or joined Minahikosis (" Little Pine "), Papewes asked 1884 in vain a reserve adjacent to the reserves of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker '), Minahikosis and Mistahimaskwa, during the rebellion of 1885 were the two groups of Papewes and Minahikosis scattered and some of their members fled in the U. S., 1886 settled the remaining members of the two groups in the Little Pine's reserve died 1901 nahe Fort Assiniboine, Montana )

* July 4, 1886: Charleston, South Carolina During Sunday school, Emma Connelly shot and killed John Steedley for " circulating slanderous reports " about her, even though her brother publicly whipped him a few days earlier.

Joyce Kilmer ( Born: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, 6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918 ) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled " Trees " ( 1913 ), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.

Frederick C. " Fred " Quimby ( July 31, 1886 – September 16, 1965 ) was an American cartoon producer, best known as a producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards.

When the Emperor Henry I died on 11 July 1216, Andrew was planning to acquire the imperial throne, but the barons of the Latin Empire proclaimed his father-in-law, Peter of Courtenay their emperor.

Hugh was crowned at Noyon on 3 July 987 with the full support from Holy Roman Emperor Otto III.

Napoleon's infant son, Napoleon II, was recognized by the Council of Peers, as Emperor from the moment of his father's abdication, and therefore reigned ( as opposed to ruled ) as Emperor for fifteen days, 22 June to 7 July 1815.

Agustín de Iturbide, the general who helped secure Mexican independence from Spanish rule, was proclaimed Emperor Agustín I in 12 July 1822, but was overthrown by the Plan of Casa Mata the next year.

Hadrian ( 24 January 76 – 10 July 138 ), was Roman Emperor from 117 to 138.

On 31 July, the navy informed the Emperor that Japan's oil stockpiles would be completely depleted in two years.

This was a coup for Honorius, as such a confirmation had never occurred before, and around July 1126 Honorius invited Emperor Lothair to Rome to obtain the imperial title.

Unable to end the impasse Taddeo was horrified to hear the fathers of the Council solemmly depose and excommunicate the Emperor on 17 July, while absolving all his subjects from allegiance.

The Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa had promised to aid him against his revolted subjects, but the death of Eugene III at Tivoli, on 8 July 1153, prevented the fulfillment of the engagement.

Anastasius I (, ; c. 430 – July 518 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 491 to 518.

Rudolf II ( July 18, 1552 – January 20, 1612 ) was Holy Roman Emperor ( 1576 – 1612 ), King of Hungary and Croatia ( 1572 – 1608 ), King of Bohemia ( 1575 – 1608 / 1611 ) and Archduke of Austria ( 1576 – 1608 ).

On July 31, 1870, the French Emperor Napoleon III ordered an invasion across the Saar River to seize Saarbrücken.

Here he received an ambassador from the Emperor beseeching him to send help against the Muslims, and in July following a force of 400 musketeers, under the command of Christovão da Gama, younger brother of Estêvão, marched into the interior, and being joined by Ethiopian troops they were at first successful against the Muslims but they were subsequently defeated at the Battle of Wofla ( 28 August 1542 ), and their commander captured and executed.

After the death of Henry II ( 3 July 1024 ), Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad II claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the Duchy of Bavaria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor Henry II ( who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria ).

* Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, born June or July 980

* July 13 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1657 )

* July 16 – Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.

* July 30 – Emperor Meiji of Japan dies.

* July 30 – Meiji Emperor of Japan ( b. 1852 )

* July 8 – WWII: Harry S. Truman is informed that Japan will talk peace if it can retain the reign of the Emperor.

* July 26 – The Potsdam Declaration demands Japan's unconditional surrender ; Article 12 permitting Japan to retain the reign of the Emperor has been deleted by President Truman.

* July 25 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1503 )

* July 19 – Wanli Emperor of China ascends the throne at the age of nine ; he will rule for 48 years.