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

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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
30 National Meteor Day Also try: astronomy Gone with the Wind published (1936) Also try: American Civil War	1 Canada Day Also try: Quebec, Yukon Territory Battle of Gettysburg (1863) Also try: American Civil War, Gettysburg Address	2 First steam engine patented (1698) Also try: Thomas Savery Civil Rights Act passed after 83-day filibuster (1964) Also try: filibuster, legislative process	3 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	4 US Independence Day Also try: Fourth of July, Declaration of Independence Supernova detected within the constellation Taurus (1054) Also try: constellations	5 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	6 President George W. Bush born (1946) Also try: US president, elections Republican Party formed (1854) Also try: political parties, democracy
7 Global Forgiveness Day Also try: character education, compassion Hawaii is annexed by the United States (1898) Also try: US territories, Pacific islands	8 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	9 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	10 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	11 John Quincy Adams born (1767) Also try: US presidents E.B. White born (1899) Also try: Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little	12 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	13 Julius Caesar born (100 BC) Also try: Ancient Rome Bomb blasts rock Mumbai (2011) Also try: terrorism
14 Bastille Day Also try: French Revolution National Shark Awareness Day Also try: fish, ocean animals	15 Rembrandt born (1606) Also try: Baroque style, painters The Rosetta Stone found (1799) Also try: Egyptian hieroglyphs	16 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	17 Charles VII crowned King of France (1429) Also try: Joan of Arc, King of France Disneyland opens (1955) Also try: Walt Disney, theme parks	18 John Glenn born (1921) Also try: astronaut, space exploration Mein Kampf published (1925) Also try: Adolf Hiter	19 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	20 First Special Olympics (1968) Also try: paralympics, disabilities Apollo 11 makes first moon landing (1969) Also try: moon landing, space exploration
21 National Ice Cream Day Also try: making ice cream, dairy products Ernest Hemingway born (1899) Also try: The Old Man and the Sea, Lost Generation	22 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	23 Ford Motor Company sells first car (1903) Also try: Henry Ford, automobiles Hale-Bopp comet discovered (1995) Also try: comets, asteroids astronomy	24 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	25 Emmett Till born (1941) Also try: civil rights movement Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth (1952) Also try: US commonwealth	26 Opening Ceremony for the Summer Olympics in Paris Also try: sports, athletes Carl Jung born (1875) Also try: extroversion, introversion, psychology Jan Berenstain born (1923) Also try: The Berenstain Bears	27 National Korean War Armistice Day Also try: Korean Demilitarized Zone National Day of the Cowboy Also try: cattle, livestock World War II: Allied forces successfully halt final Axis advance into Egypt (1942) Also try: Allied Forces
28 National Parents' Day Also try: families, mothers, fathers 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	29 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	30 Emily Bronte born (1818) Also try: Wuthering Heights Henry Ford born (1863) Also try: assembly line, Ford Motor Company	31 Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day Also try: music, homemade instruments J.K. Rowling born (1965) Also try: Harry Potter	1 National Water Quality Month Begins Also try: water pollution, water sources Herman Melville born (1819) Also try: Moby Dick Justinian I becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire (527) Also try: Byzantine Empire	2 Declaraton of Independence is signed in Philadelphia by 56 members of Congress (1776) Also try: equality, government Trial run of San Francisco cable car on Clay St. (1873) Also try: public transportation The Lincoln Penny first issued (1909) Also try: currency, US Mint	3 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage (1492) Also try: Age of Discovery Calvin Coolidge becomes president after the death of President Warren G. Harding (1923) Also try: Warren G. Harding, US presidents

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