23 July in history

5 events that happened on 23 July, from 1637 to 1974.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1637 CE 389 years ago

    Riot greets Charles I's new prayer book in Edinburgh

    Worshippers in St Giles' Cathedral protested violently when the new Scottish Book of Common Prayer was first read. The resistance led to the National Covenant, the Bishops' Wars and the British civil wars.

  2. 1745 CE 281 years ago

    Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay

    Charles Edward Stuart landed on the Hebridean island of Eriskay to reclaim the throne for his father. The Jacobite rising he launched ended in defeat at Culloden in April 1746.

  3. 1829 CE 197 years ago

    William Austin Burt patents his 'typographer'

    Michigan surveyor William Austin Burt received a US patent for the typographer, a hand-operated printing machine. Slow and never sold commercially, it is often called the first American typewriter.

  4. 1952 CE 74 years ago

    Egypt's Free Officers overthrow King Farouk

    Army officers led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power in a bloodless coup, forcing King Farouk to abdicate days later. Egypt became a republic in 1953.

  5. 1974 CE 52 years ago

    Greece's military junta collapses after the Cyprus crisis

    Discredited by its coup in Cyprus and the Turkish invasion that followed, the Greek junta handed power to civilians. Konstantinos Karamanlis returned from exile the next day to restore democracy.

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