July 20, 1871, the English Football Association (founded in 1863) proposed the establishment of a Challenge Cup for the clubs that make up its membership. This step became decisive in the rapid development of football as a sport. Four years later, he...
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July 20: Challenge Cup, conference in Montreux and landing of the Viking-1 spacecraft
July 19: Rosetta stone, Ekaterinoslav renamed to Dnepropetrovsk and XXII Olympic Games
July 19, 1799 during the Egyptian campaign of Napoleon near the city of Rosetta (50 km from Alexandria, Egypt) was found a stone slab on which were carved ancient texts in three ancient languages. Deciphering the texts of the Rosetta stone by the French...
July 18: the capital of the Aztec empire, "Giuseppe Garibaldi" and the foundation of "Intel"
July 18, 1325 was founded in the middle of Lake Texcoco, the capital of the Aztec Empire Tenochtitlan. In 1521, it was destroyed by Spanish conquistadors under the leadership of Ernan Cortes.
1869 - The First Vatican Council almost unanimously adopted...
July 17: Battle of Castiglioni, Windsor Dynasty and "Yellow Submarine"
July 17, 1453 in the Battle of Castiglioni, the French defeated the British and captured the city of Bordeaux. This battle without the formal signing of a peace treaty ended the Hundred Years War, which began in 1337, the longest in the history of Europe...
July 16: Europe's first paper notes, the opening of the Bessarabian market and the debut of Oleg Blokhin
July 16, 1661 Swedish bank Stockholms Banco issued the first paper notes in Europe. They were denominated 5, 25, 100 and 1000 Swedish thalers.
1867 - Frenchman Joseph Monier, a former gardener, received a patent for reinforced concrete, which became...
July 15: Battle of Grunwald, Kiev Institute of Higher Education and "Die Hard"
July 15, 1410 defeat of the troops of the Teutonic Order in the Battle of Grunwald from Lithuanian and Polish troops, which stopped the expansion of the Order on the lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.
1834 - by the royal...
July 14: The capture of the Bastille, the fall of the bell tower in St. Mark's Square and the record of Ronald Clark
July 14, 1789, the insurgent Parisians stormed the Bastille, the royal prison-fortress, which personified the tyranny of the ruling monarchical Bourbon dynasty. This event signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, decades of political instability...
July 13: the main residence of the monarchs of Great Britain, the opening of the Hollywood Sign and the first album of the band "Queen"
July 13, 1837 Queen Victoria moved from the Palace of St. James and Buckingham Palace, which became the main residence of the monarchs of Great Britain.
1870 - Prince Otto von Bismarck sent a telegram from the German town of Ems to the courtyards of...
July 12: "The Nuremberg Chronicle" by Shedel, the use of mustard gas and the expedition on the papyrus boat "Ra-II"
July 12, 1493 in Nuremberg, the "Nuremberg Chronicle" by Hartman Schädel. It contains an illustrated chronicle of biblical history from the creation of the world.
1806 - under the pressure of Napoleon Bonaparte in Paris, German monarchies formed the...
July 11: Battle of the golden spurs, an airplane with a free-flying wing and a world record in running
July 11, 1302 Battle of the golden spurs. The Flemish militia, mostly consisting of artisans, defeated the French army.
1783 - the French Academy stopped work on the development of the steamer as unpromising.
1893 - Japanese Kokichi Mikimoto first...