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).
Historical Events for July, 1841
Day of Week 18th » Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, on 18 July.
Famous Birthdays on July in 1841
5th » William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1904)
13th » Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (d. 1918)
16th » Nikolai von Glehn, Estonian-German architect and activist (d. 1923)
26th » Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian politician, journalist and teacher (d. 1882)
Famous Deaths for July 1841
27th » Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and painter (b. 1814)