July Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Enhance your current curriculum with this fun reference calendar. Whether you want to highlight historic events, honor birthdays of significant people, or celebrate holidays, this is a valuable tool for every teacher. Click on any event to find a breadth of related teaching resources that will spark new ideas to spice up your daily lessons. There's something worth celebrating every day!

Curriculum calendar for July 2026 showing educational events and resources
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
June 28, 2026	June 29, 2026	June 30, 2026	July 1, 2026 Canada Day Also try: Quebec, Yukon Territory Battle of Gettysburg (1863) Also try: American Civil War, Gettysburg Address	July 2, 2026 First steam engine patented (1698) Also try: Thomas Savery Civil Rights Act passed after 83-day filibuster (1964) Also try: filibuster, legislative process	July 3, 2026 John Singleton Copley born (1738) Also try: portrait artist, colonial New England Dow Jones and Company publishes first stock average (1884) Also try: stock market	July 4, 2026 US Independence Day Also try: Fourth of July, Declaration of Independence Supernova detected within the constellation Taurus (1054) Also try: constellations
July 5, 2026 First recorded sighting of a tornado in the US (1643) Also try: natural disasters, severe weather Isaac Newton's Principia published (1687) Also try: Issac Newton The Law of Return is passed allowing Jewish people to return to Israel (1950) Also try: Israel-Palestine Conflict Successful cloning of Dolly the sheep (1996) Also try: cloning, DNA	July 6, 2026 President George W. Bush born (1946) Also try: US president, elections Republican Party formed (1854) Also try: political parties, democracy	July 7, 2026 Global Forgiveness Day Also try: character education, compassion Hawaii is annexed by the United States (1898) Also try: US territories, Pacific islands	July 8, 2026 Stock market falls to lowest point during Great Depression (1932) Also try: Great Depression Douglas MacArthur named commander of UN forces in Korea (1950) Also try: Korean War	July 9, 2026 Argentina declares independence from Spain (1816) Also try: South American countries, Spanish colonies Millard Fillmore becomes president when President Zachary Taylor dies (1850) Also try: US presidents, Whig Party	July 10, 2026 Nikola Tesla born (1856) Also try: electricity, magnetism Hottest temperature recorded on Earth measured in Death Valley (1913) Also try: Death Valley, deserts Boris Yeltsin becomes Russia's first President (1991) Also try: Russia, democracy	July 11, 2026 John Quincy Adams born (1767) Also try: US presidents E.B. White born (1899) Also try: Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little
July 12, 2026 Henry David Thoreau born (1817) Also try: Walden Pond, philosophers, poets, naturalists Henry VIII weds his last wife, Catherine Parr (1543) Also try: Catherine Parr	July 13, 2026 Julius Caesar born (100 BC) Also try: Ancient Rome Bomb blasts rock Mumbai (2011) Also try: terrorism	July 14, 2026 Bastille Day Also try: French Revolution National Shark Awareness Day Also try: fish, ocean animals	July 15, 2026 Rembrandt born (1606) Also try: Baroque style, painters The Rosetta Stone found (1799) Also try: Egyptian hieroglyphs	July 16, 2026 The Manhattan Project ushers in the Atomic Age (1945) Also try: Atomic Age The Catcher in the Rye published (1951) Also try: J.D. Salinger	July 17, 2026 Charles VII crowned King of France (1429) Also try: Joan of Arc, King of France Disneyland opens (1955) Also try: Walt Disney, theme parks	July 18, 2026 John Glenn born (1921) Also try: astronaut, space exploration Mein Kampf published (1925) Also try: Adolf Hiter
July 19, 2026 First women's rights convention at Seneca Falls (1848) Also try: women's suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Qing Dynasty defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1864) Also try: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom	July 20, 2026 First Special Olympics (1968) Also try: paralympics, disabilities Apollo 11 makes first moon landing (1969) Also try: moon landing, space exploration National Ice Cream Day Also try: making ice cream, dairy products	July 21, 2026 Ernest Hemingway born (1899) Also try: The Old Man and the Sea, Lost Generation	July 22, 2026 Deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins the Holocaust (1942) Also try: Jewish deportation, Holocaust Dick Smith completes the first solo helicopter flight around the world (1983) Also try: flight, aerodynamics	July 23, 2026 Ford Motor Company sells first car (1903) Also try: Henry Ford, automobiles Hale-Bopp comet discovered (1995) Also try: comets, asteroids astronomy	July 24, 2026 Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley (1847) Also try: Mormonism, Utah history Ruins of Macchu Picchu discovered (1911) Also try: Peru, Inca	July 25, 2026 Emmett Till born (1941) Also try: civil rights movement Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth (1952) Also try: US commonwealth
July 26, 2026 Carl Jung born (1875) Also try: extroversion, introversion, psychology Jan Berenstain born (1923) Also try: The Berenstain Bears National Day of the Cowboy Also try: cattle, livestock National Parents' Day Also try: families, mothers, fathers	July 27, 2026 National Korean War Armistice Day Also try: Korean Demilitarized Zone World War II: Allied forces successfully halt final Axis advance into Egypt (1942) Also try: Allied Forces	July 28, 2026 World Nature Conservation Day Also try: conservation, ecology Beatrix Potter born (1866) Also try: The Tale of Peter Rabbit World War I begins (1914) Also try: The Great War	July 29, 2026 Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien first published (1954) Also try: J.R.R. Tolkien, fantasy genre NASA established (1958) Also try: space exploration, aeronautics, aerospace	July 30, 2026 Emily Bronte born (1818) Also try: Wuthering Heights Henry Ford born (1863) Also try: assembly line, Ford Motor Company	July 31, 2026 Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day Also try: music, homemade instruments J.K. Rowling born (1965) Also try: Harry Potter	August 1, 2026

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