On July 15
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly July 15 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jul 12 – Jul 18)
On 14 July 1789 a Parisian crowd seeking arms and gunpowder stormed the Bastille, a royal fortress-prison that symbolised Bourbon absolutism.
In 1054 the long-building rift between the Latin (Roman) and Greek (Byzantine) churches hardened into formal schism.
On 14 July 1889, the centenary of the storming of the Bastille, a Marxist International Socialist Congress convened in Paris and founded the Second International, a federation of socialist and labour parties drawn from some twenty…
The inaugural FIFA World Cup, the first global international association football tournament organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), was held in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930.
On 17 July 1936 a coalition of conservative, monarchist, and far-right army officers launched a coup against Spain's elected Second Republic, beginning in Spanish Morocco and spreading to mainland garrisons the next day.
On 16 July 1995 Amazon.com opened to the public as an online bookstore, founded a year earlier by Jeff Bezos, who had left a Wall Street firm to capitalise on the rapid growth of internet use.
On 14 July 2015, after years of negotiation, Iran and the P5+1 group (the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany, with the European Union) reached the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in Vienna.