July 1881

Friday 01:

General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.

Saturday 02:

Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.

Monday 04:

In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.

Wednesday 20:

Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana