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1744 AD

King George War begins.

Lawn mower invented by Edwin Beard Budding.

Saturday, 4 July 2015

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Tupou VI was crowned King of Tonga, succeeding his brother George Tupou V, who died in 2012.

Suez Canal opens.

Revolving machine gun invented by Richard J. Gatling.

United States and Britain start warring.

President Sadat of Egypt is assassinated.

Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), poet of Heroides, Amores, and Metamorphoses dies.

Friday, 15 July 2016

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A coup d’état is launched against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government of Turkey, but ultimately fails on 16 July.

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

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Greece became the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the International Monetary Fund in the fund’s 71-year history.

The Times is created and published for the first time in London.

Galileo Galilee makes his first observations of stars with a telescope.