Editing July 2 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1613]] &ndash; The first English expedition (from [[Virginia]]) against [[Acadia]] led by [[Samuel Argall]] takes place.
*[[1644]] &ndash; [[English Civil War]]: [[Battle of Marston Moor]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Battle of Marston Moor 1644, Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton - 1000020 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000020 |website=historicengland.org.uk |access-date=3 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1645]] &ndash; [[Battle of Alford]]: [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]].
*[[1698]] &ndash; [[Thomas Savery]] patents the first [[steam engine]].
*[[1723]] &ndash; Bach's [[Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a|Magnificat]] is first performed.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000012?lang=en| title = Magnificat in E flat major [first version] BWV 243.1; BWV 243a; BC E 13 / Magnificat (The Visitation of Mary [2 July])| work = [[Bach Digital]]| access-date = 28 July 2018}}</ref>
*[[1724]] &ndash; On the [[Visitation (Christianity)|Feast of the Visitation]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] leads the first performance of his ''{{lang|de|[[Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10|Meine Seel erhebt den Herren]]}}'', BWV{{nbsp}}10, the fifth cantata of his [[chorale cantata cycle]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000303?lang=en | title = Meine Seel erhebt den Herren BWV 10; BC A 175 | work = [[Bach Digital]] | access-date = 24 June 2024}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: The [[Second Continental Congress|Continental Congress]] adopts the [[Lee Resolution]] severing ties with the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]], although the wording of the formal [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] is not adopted until [[July 4]].
*[[1816]] &ndash; The {{ship|French frigate|Méduse|1810|6}} strikes the [[Bay of Arguin|Bank of Arguin]] and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by [[Théodore Géricault|Géricault]]'s painting ''[[The Raft of the Medusa]]''.
*[[1822]] &ndash; Thirty-five slaves, including [[Denmark Vesey]], are hanged in [[South Carolina]] after being accused of organizing a [[slave rebellion]].
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Bahia]] Independence Day: The end of [[Portuguese rule in Brazil]], with [[Siege of Salvador|the final defeat]] of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
*[[1839]] &ndash; Twenty miles off the coast of [[Cuba]], 53 kidnapped Africans led by [[Joseph Cinqué]] mutiny and take over the slave ship ''[[La Amistad|Amistad]]''.
*[[1840]] &ndash; A {{M|s}} [[1840 Ahora earthquake|7.4 earthquake]] strikes present-day Turkey and Armenia; combined with the effects of an eruption on [[Mount Ararat]], kills 10,000 people.<ref name="KarakhanianOther2004a">{{cite journal |last1=Karakhanian|first1=A.S. |last2=Trifonov|first2=V.G. |last3=Philip|first3=H. |last4=Avagyan|first4=A. |last5=Hessami|first5=K. |last6=Jamali|first6=F. |last7=Bayraktutan|first7=M. S. |last8=Bagdassarian|first8=H. |last9=Arakelian|first9=S. |last10=Davtian|first10=V. |last11=Adilkhanyan |first11=A. |title = Active faulting and natural hazards in Armenia, Eastern Turkey and North-Western Iran |journal=[[Tectonophysics (journal)|Tectonophysics]] |year=2004 |volume=380 |issue=3–4 |pages=189–219 |doi = 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.09.020 |bibcode=2004Tectp.380..189K }}</ref>
*[[1853]] &ndash; The Russian Army crosses the Prut river into the [[Danubian Principalities]] ([[Moldavia]] and [[Wallachia]]), providing the spark that will [[Crimean War#First hostilities|set off the Crimean War]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Dimitri Atanasescu]] founds the first Romanian school in the Balkans for the [[Aromanians]] in [[Trnovo, Bitola|Trnovo]], in the Ottoman Empire (now in [[North Macedonia]]).<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_14746_bp_2015_22_8|title=The Aromanian-Romanian national movement (1859-1905): an analytical model|first=Vladimir|last=Crețulescu|journal=Balcanica Posnaniensia. Acta et studia|volume=22|issue=1|pages=99–121|year=2015|doi=10.14746/bp.2015.22.8|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Victor Emmanuel II of Italy]] enters Rome after having conquered it from the [[Papal States]].
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Charles J. Guiteau]] shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President [[James A. Garfield]] (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
*[[1890]] &ndash; The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passes the [[Sherman Antitrust Act]].
*[[1897]] &ndash; British-Italian engineer [[Guglielmo Marconi]] obtains a patent for [[History of radio|radio]] in London.
*[[1900]] &ndash; An [[airship]] designed and constructed by Count [[Ferdinand von Zeppelin]] of Germany made its first flight on [[Lake Constance]] near Friedrichshafen.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=16|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref>
*  1900   &ndash; [[Jean Sibelius]]' ''[[Finlandia]]'' receives its première performance in Helsinki with the [[Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra|Helsinki Philharmonic Society]] conducted by [[Robert Kajanus]].