| 76861 | July 6 | Event | 1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death. |
| 76862 | July 6 | Event | 1411 – Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor. |
| 76863 | July 6 | Event | 1415 – Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. |
| 76864 | July 6 | Event | 1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England. |
| 76865 | July 6 | Event | 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River. |
| 76866 | July 6 | Event | 1495 – First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo: Charles VIII defeats the Holy League. |
| 76867 | July 6 | Event | 1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. |
| 76868 | July 6 | Event | 1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband agai |
| 76869 | July 6 | Event | 1560 – The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England. |
| 76870 | July 6 | Event | 1573 – Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera. |
| 76871 | July 6 | Event | 1573 – French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle ends. |
| 76872 | July 6 | Event | 1614 – Żejtun and the surrounding villages suffer a raid from Ottoman forces. This was the last unsuccessful attempt by the Ottomans to conquer the island of Malta. |
| 76873 | July 6 | Event | 1630 – Thirty Years' War: Four thousand Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany. |
| 76874 | July 6 | Event | 1685 – Battle of Sedgemoor: Last battle of the Monmouth Rebellion. troops of King James II defeat troops of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. |
| 76875 | July 6 | Event | 1751 – Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia. |
| 76876 | July 6 | Event | 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York. |
| 76877 | July 6 | Event | 1779 – Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War. |
| 76878 | July 6 | Event | 1801 – First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras. |
| 76879 | July 6 | Event | 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars. |
| 76880 | July 6 | Event | 1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held. |
| 76881 | July 6 | Event | 1865 – The first issue of The Nation magazine is published. |
| 76882 | July 6 | Event | 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. |
| 76883 | July 6 | Event | 1887 – David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights. |
| 76884 | July 6 | Event | 1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. |
| 76885 | July 6 | Event | 1892 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded. |
| 76886 | July 6 | Event | 1917 – World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt. |
| 76887 | July 6 | Event | 1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship. |
| 76888 | July 6 | Event | 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2. |
| 76889 | July 6 | Event | 1936 – A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell. |
| 76890 | July 6 | Event | 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid. |