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
27 Helen Keller born (1880) Also try: famous women, women's suffrage "Happy Birthday" song composed (1859) Also try: birthday traditions	28 Paul Bunyan Day Also try: tall tales, folktales King Henry VIII born (1491) Also try: King of England, monarchy	29 The Globe Theatre burns to the ground (1613) Also try: Shakespeare, London First iPhone released (2007) Also try: cell phones, modern technology	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 Civil Rights Act passed after 83-day filibuster (1964) Also try: filibuster, legislative process First steam engine patented (1698) Also try: Thomas Savery	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 Successful cloning of Dolly the sheep (1996) Also try: cloning, DNA The Law of Return is passed allowing Jewish people to return to Israel (1950) Also try: Israel-Palestine Conflict 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	6 President George W. Bush born (1946) Also try: US president, elections Republican Party formed (1854) Also try: political parties, democracy	7 Hawaii is annexed by the United States (1898) Also try: US territories, Pacific islands Global Forgiveness Day Also try: character education, compassion	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 National Book Lovers Day Also try: novels, children's books Millard Fillmore becomes president when President Zachary Taylor dies (1850) Also try: US presidents, Whig Party	10 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 E.B. White born (1899) Also try: Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little John Quincy Adams born (1767) Also try: US presidents	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 B.C.) 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 Disneyland opens (1955) Also try: Walt Disney, theme parks Charles VII crowned King of France (1429) Also try: Joan of Arc, King of France
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 Apollo 11 makes first moon landing (1969) Also try: moon landing, space exploration First Special Olympics (1968) Also try: paralympics, disabilities	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 Systematic 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 Opening Ceremony for Summer Olympics in Tokyo Also try: sports Hale-Bopp comet discovered (1995) Also try: comets, asteroids astronomy Ford Motor Company sells first car (1903) Also try: Henry Ford, automobiles	24 Ruins of Macchu Picchu discovered (1911) Also try: Peru, Inca Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley (1847) Also try: Mormonism, Utah history
25 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth (1952) Also try: US commonwealth Emmett Till born (1941) Also try: civil rights movement	26 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 World War II: Allied forces successfully halt final Axis advance into Egypt (1942) Also try: Allied Forces	28 Beatrix Potter born (1866) Also try: The Tale of Peter Rabbit World War I begins (1914) Also try: The Great War	29 NASA established (1958) Also try: space exploration, aeronautics, aerospace Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien first published (1954) Also try: J.R.R. Tolkien, fantasy genre	30 Henry Ford born (1863) Also try: assembly line, Ford Motor Company Emily Bronte born (1818) Also try: Wuthering Heights	31 Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day Also try: music, homemade instruments J.K. Rowling born (1965) Also try: Harry Potter

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