MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · July 7
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 7
July 7 in history
1807 — 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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1937
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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