THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 1

July 1 in history

What happened on July 1: 6 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1097, 1520, 1862, 1911, 1916 and 1957, each linked to the map that shows it.

1097 — Battle of Dorylaeum

1 Jul 1097 — ambushed on the march, the crusaders survive a Turkish encirclement and shatter the Sultanate of Rûm’s field army. The way across Anatolia lies open, though thirst and hunger will kill more than battle.

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1520 — La Noche Triste

30 June–1 July 1520 — On the night the Spaniards fled Tenochtitlan along the Tlacopan causeway, warriors attacked them at the gaps where the bridges had been removed. Hundreds of Spaniards and thousands of their Tlaxcalan allies died in the causeway gaps and the lake.

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1862 — Seven Days Battles

25 Jun–1 Jul 1862 — Lee, three weeks in command, attacks every day for a week and drives McClellan’s hundred thousand back from Richmond’s suburbs at a cost of 20,000 of his own men. The Union’s best early chance to end the war recedes for two years.

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1911 — Agadir Crisis

1 Jul 1911 — Germany sends a gunboat to Morocco’s Atlantic coast to demand compensation for France’s takeover of the country. Britain warns Berlin in public, the crisis ends in November with a slice of French Congo for Germany, and German nationalists call the bargain a humiliation.

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1916

The first day of the Somme: 57,000 British casualties before nightfall, the bloodiest day in that army’s history.

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1957 — Mao’s editorial against Wenhui Bao

1 Jul 1957 — A People’s Daily editorial, written by Mao himself, attacks Shanghai’s Wenhui Bao for its “bourgeois orientation” in printing criticism during the Hundred Flowers. Editors, writers, teachers and business people who had spoken out in Shanghai are named as rightists in the months that follow.

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