What happend on 7th July

06.07
08.07
1863

United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100

1846

Mexican War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.

1807

Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.

1799

Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.

1798

Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'

1543

French troops invade Luxembourg.

1534

European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.

1456

Joan of Arc is acquitted of heresy (having been executed in 1431).