On July 31
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly July 31 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jul 28 – Aug 3)
The Indian Rebellion of 1857—known variously as the Sepoy Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, or India's First War of Independence—erupted on 10 May 1857 when sepoys of the East India Company's Bengal Army mutinied at Meerut, in part over the…
During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal, who had invaded Italy by crossing the Alps, inflicted on Rome one of the worst defeats in its history near the village of Cannae in Apulia.
On 30 July 762, the second Abbasid caliph al-Mansur commissioned a new capital on the west bank of the Tigris, officially named Madinat al-Salam, the City of Peace.
Receiving royal assent on 2 August 1935, the Government of India Act 1935 was the most extensive constitutional reform enacted by Britain for India before independence.