User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/July 1

July 1

 * 1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I.
 * 1690 - Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
 * 1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
 * 1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell–Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.
 * 1916 - First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
 * 1942 - First Battle of El Alamein