| 81001 | July 16 | Death | 2015 – Jack Goody, English anthropologist, author, and academic (b. 1919) |
| 81002 | July 16 | Death | 2015 – Alan Kupperberg, American author and illustrator (b. 1953) |
| 81003 | July 16 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Gondulphus of TongerenHelierOur Lady of Mount CarmelFiesta de La Tirana (Tarapacá Region, Chile)ReineldisJuly 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
| 81004 | July 16 | Holiday and observance | Engineer's Day (Honduras) |
| 81005 | July 16 | Holiday and observance | Holocaust Memorial Day (France) |
| 81006 | July 17 | Event | 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. |
| 81007 | July 17 | Event | 1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile. |
| 81008 | July 17 | Event | 1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China. |
| 81009 | July 17 | Event | 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc |
| 81010 | July 17 | Event | 1453 – Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony. |
| 81011 | July 17 | Event | 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered. |
| 81012 | July 17 | Event | 1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia. |
| 81013 | July 17 | Event | 1771 – Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit. |
| 81014 | July 17 | Event | 1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people. |
| 81015 | July 17 | Event | 1794 – The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. |
| 81016 | July 17 | Event | 1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people. |
| 81017 | July 17 | Event | 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university. |
| 81018 | July 17 | Event | 1896 – Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, the Indian sage, at age 16, spontaneously initiates a process of self-enquiry that culminates within a few minutes in his own permanent awakening. |
| 81019 | July 17 | Event | 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. |
| 81020 | July 17 | Event | 1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York. |
| 81021 | July 17 | Event | 1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor. |
| 81022 | July 17 | Event | 1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia. |
| 81023 | July 17 | Event | 1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55 five lives are lost. |
| 81024 | July 17 | Event | 1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues. |
| 81025 | July 17 | Event | 1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances. |
| 81026 | July 17 | Event | 1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war. |
| 81027 | July 17 | Event | 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. |
| 81028 | July 17 | Event | 1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320. |
| 81029 | July 17 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France. |
| 81030 | July 17 | Event | 1945 – World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany. |