Editing July 11 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1616]] &ndash; [[Samuel de Champlain]] returns to [[Quebec]].
*[[1735]] &ndash; Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that [[dwarf planet]] [[Pluto]] moved inside the orbit of [[Neptune]] for the last time before 1979.
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Jacques Necker]] is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the [[Storming of the Bastille]].
*[[1796]] &ndash; The United States takes possession of [[Detroit]] from [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] under terms of the [[Jay Treaty]].
*[[1798]] &ndash; The [[United States Marine Corps]] is re-established; they had been disbanded after the [[American Revolutionary War]].
*[[1801]] &ndash; French astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons]] makes his first [[comet]] discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Burr–Hamilton duel|A duel occurs]] in which the [[Vice President of the United States]] [[Aaron Burr]] mortally wounds former [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] [[Alexander Hamilton]].
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[Noongar]] [[Indigenous Australians|Australian aboriginal]] warrior [[Yagan]], wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
*[[1836]] &ndash; ''[[The Fly-fisher's Entomology]]'' is published by [[Alfred Ronalds]]. The book transformed the sport and went to many editions.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ronalds |first=B.F. |title=Alfred Ronalds: Angler, Artisan and Australian Pioneer |publisher=Medlar Press |year=2022}}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[London Waterloo station|Waterloo]] railway station in London opens.
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Fort Stevens]]; [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
*[[1882]] &ndash; The British [[Mediterranean Fleet]] begins the [[Bombardment of Alexandria]] in Egypt as part of the [[Anglo-Egyptian War]].
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Tijuana]], Mexico, is founded.
*[[1893]] &ndash; The first cultured [[pearl]] is obtained by [[Mikimoto Kōkichi|Kōkichi Mikimoto]].
*  1893   &ndash; A [[revolution]] led by the liberal general and politician [[José Santos Zelaya]] takes over state power in [[Nicaragua]].
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Salomon August Andrée]] leaves [[Spitsbergen]] to attempt to reach the [[North Pole]] by [[balloon]].
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Fiat Automobiles|Fiat]] founded by [[Giovanni Agnelli]] in [[Turin, Italy]].