THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 7
July 7 in history
What happened on July 7: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1520, 1807 and 1937, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Otumba
7 July 1520 — Days after their flight from Tenochtitlan, the battered Spaniards and their allies fought a Mexica army in the plain of Otumba and broke through, reportedly by striking at its commanders. They reached the safety of Tlaxcala soon after.
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— Treaties of Tilsit
7 Jul 1807 — Napoleon and Tsar Alexander embrace on a raft anchored in the Niemen and divide Europe between them. The Grand Empire at its zenith — on paper.
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A skirmish at the Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing ignites full war between Japan and China — the Second World War’s first front.
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