📅 Today in HistoryJuly 7

The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.

A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.

Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.

Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.

The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.

The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.

An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.

American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.

As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".