Occult:This month in history/July
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- 1 July - The Echols Sigil Oracle is launched on Kickstarter. (2024)
- 2 July - French seer and mystic Nostradamus dies. (1566)
- 3 July - Folk saint and shaman Don Pedro Jaramillo dies in Brooks County, Texas. (1907)
- 6 July - Jan Hus is burned at the stake for heresy. (1415)
- 7 July - Zé Pilintra Day, celebrating the Brazilian folk saint in Rio de Janeiro.
- 10 July - King Charles I appoints Thomas Rudd "Chief Engineer of All castles, forts, and fortifications within Wales." (1627)
- 10 July - Czech occultist and author Franz Bardon dies from pancreatitis while in police custody. (1958)
- 11 July - Feast day of Archangel Uriel in the Coptic Church.
- 12 July - Johann Georg Faust receives his baccalaureate degree. (1484)
- 12 July - French author Jean-Baptiste Pitois, who coined the terms Major Arcana and Minor Arcana, dies. (1877)
- 13 July - John Dee, court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, is born. (1527)
- 13 July - French author and occultist Papus is born. (1865)
- 14 July - New Horizons spacecraft performs a flyby of Pluto. (2015)
- 16 July - The French army, led by Joan of Arc enters the city of Reims. (1429)
- 17 July - The last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, dies. (1918)
- 19 July - Date of the heliacal rise of Sirius used to begin the Egyptian calendar. (3000 BC)
- 19 July - Accused witch Rebecca Nurse is executed by hanging. (1692)
- 19 July - Australian cannibal murderer Alexander Pearce is executed by hanging. (1824)
- 19 July - Occultist Aleister Crowley begins his 40 day seclusion on Esopus Island. (1918)
- 19 July - Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is commissioned in the U.S. Naval Reserve. (1941)
- 19 July - Principal filming wraps on occult horror film The Craft. (1995)
- 22 July - Elizabethan astrologer Simon Forman marries 17-year-old Jane Baker. (1599)
- 24 July - Occultist and artist Marjorie Cameron, formerly married to Jack Parsons, dies in Los Angeles. (1995)
- 26 July - Accused witch Bridget Bishop marries her second husband, Thomas Oliver. (1666)
- 26 July - Argentine folk saint Eva Perón dies. (1952)
- 28 July - Accused witch Lilias Adie is arrested for witchcraft. (1704)
- 31 July - A second fire is started by arson at Boleskine House in Scotland. (2019)