This year our Ten Things series is focusing on each month in turn. The Ten Things may include facts about the month, momentous events that happened, personal things, and any other idiocy I feel like – just because I can. So here are …
Ten Things about July
- Start of UK school holidays
- The month was renamed by Roman Senate in honour of Julius Caesar
- Annual Swan Upping to count the Queen’s swans on the River Thames
- St Swithin’s Day
- Whitstable Oyster Festival
- Fence Month: the closed season for deer in England
- In 1799 a French soldier discovers Rosetta Stone
- Bikini first showcased in Paris in 1946 (right)
- First Moon walk in 1969
- Birth of Dr John Dee, Elizabethan scientist and magician