July is the seventh month of the year (between June and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honor of the Roman general, Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer) and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter). The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere.
July symbols: The birthstone of July is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment. Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the Water Lily. The zodiac signs for the month of July are Cancer (until July 22) and Leo (July 23 onwards).
Day of Week 6th » The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
Day of Week 16th » The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Monarchy of Spain or Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo
Famous Birthdays on July in 1809
10th » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)
30th » Charles Chiniquy, Canadian-American priest (d. 1899)
Famous Deaths for July 1809
3rd » Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
6th » Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, French general (b. 1775)
14th » Nicodemus the Hagiorite, Greek monk and saint (b. 1749)
28th » Richard Beckett (cricketer) e.g Richard Beckett, English cricketer and captain (b.1772)