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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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