What happened on 13 July?

13 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 2013 Black Lives Matter founded BLM movement founded after Trayvon Martin's killer is acquitted.
2. 1878 Congress of Berlin Bismarck redraws the Balkans after Russia's victory over the Ottomans: Serbia, Romania and Montenegro become independent, Bulgaria is cut down, and Bosnia goes to Austria.
3. 2016 Theresa May's premiership Theresa May serves as prime minister of the United Kingdom following the Brexit referendum.
4. 1793 Charlotte Corday assassinates Marat A young Girondin sympathiser from Normandy talks her way into Jean-Paul Marat's rooms and stabs the Revolution's most bloodthirsty journalist in his medicinal bath. She goes calmly
5. 1870 Ems Dispatch Bismarck's edited telegram inflames opinion in France and Prussia, triggering the Franco-Prussian War.
6. 2024 Attempted assassination of Donald Trump A gunman wounds Trump at a Pennsylvania rally; the defiant image reshapes the US presidential race.
7. 1934 Born: Wole Soyinka Nigerian dramatist; first African Nobel literature laureate.
8. 1936 The murder of Calvo Sotelo Republican police officers, avenging a murdered comrade, abduct and shoot the monarchist leader José Calvo Sotelo and leave his body at a cemetery gate. The plotters' hesitaters he
9. 1985 Live Aid Global benefit concerts for Ethiopian famine relief; watched by ~1.5 billion people.
10. 1930 First FIFA World Cup Inaugural football World Cup held in Uruguay.
11. 1863 The New York draft riots Days after Gettysburg, the first federal draft lottery ignites four days of rioting in New York — the mob turning from draft offices to lynching Black New Yorkers and burning the C
12. 1765 Lord Rockingham's first premiership Rockingham repeals the Stamp Act but pairs it with the Declaratory Act asserting parliament's supremacy.
13. 1977 New York City blackout of 1977 Lightning strikes plunge New York into a 25-hour blackout; looting and arson sweep a broke, fearful city — 1,600 stores damaged, 3,700 arrests, and a defining image of the 1970s ur