Occult:This month in history/July
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- 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 state for heresy. (1415)
- 14 July - The New Horizons spacecraft completes the first-ever flyby of Pluto. (2015)
- 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)
- 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)
- 22 July - Elizabethan astrologer Simon Forman marries 17-year-old Jane Baker. (1599)
- 26 July - Argentine folk saint Eva Perón dies. (1952)
- 28 July - Accused witch Lilias Adie is arrested for witchcraft. (1704)