I often wonder what significant anniversaries are due at some point in the future as some of them might be of interest as triggers for blog posts or visits somewhere. However, it is often difficult to find out quickly what events have significant anniversaries - hence this section on the website.
By "significant anniversaries", I mean dates that are not, for example, the 73rd anniversary of something, but the 50th, 100th, 200th etc.
It should help to flag up interesting events.
Significant anniversaries during July 2015
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | Home Secretary Theresa May announces a major review and inquiry into allegations of historical child abuse across all areas of UK society. The announcement was prompted by reports that the Home Office failed to act on allegations that a paedophile ring operated at Westminster during the 1980s. (7th Jul 2014) |
| 5th | Metro Bank opens its first branch, in Holborn, London, the first wholly new high street bank for more than a century. (29th Jul 2010) |
| 5th | Northumbria police are reported to have found an armed man, believed to be murder suspect Raoul Moat, in the local area and are negotiating with him to persuade him to give himself up. (9th Jul 2010) |
| 10th | Birmingham tornado of 2005: F2 tornado hits Birmingham at about 14:40. 19 people are hurt, some seriously. (28th Jul 2005) |
| 10th | Tower of St Edmundsbury Cathedral at Bury St Edmunds completed. (22nd Jul 2005) |
| 10th | Four attempted bomb attacks in London disrupt part of the capital's public transport. Small explosions occur around midday at Shepherd's Bush, Warren Street and Oval stations on London Underground, and on a bus in Bethnal Green. However, there are no injuries. (21st Jul 2005) |
| 10th | Criminalisation of magic mushrooms (18th Jul 2005) |
| 10th | Southampton Institute of Higher Education becomes a university; on 15 August, it adopts the name Southampton Solent University. (12th Jul 2005) |
| 10th | Littlewoods sells its 119 stores across the UK to Associated British Foods in a £409 million deal which will see them converted into Primark clothing stores and will mean that the Littlewoods name will vanish from high streets and shopping centres next year after 83 years, although Littlewoods will continue trading as a catalogue and an online retailer. (11th Jul 2005) |
| 10th | A series of co-ordinated terrorist bombings strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour. Three bombs exploded within fifty seconds of each other on three London Underground trains. A fourth bomb exploded on a bus an hour later in Tavistock Square. 52 civilians are killed and over 700 people were injured. (7th Jul 2005) |
| 10th | Live 8 concerts are held. (2nd Jul 2005) |
| 40th | Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. (5th Jul 1975) |
| 50th | Edward Heath becomes leader of the British Conservative Party following its first leadership election by secret ballot. (27th Jul 1965) |
| 50th | Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs escapes from Wandsworth Prison. (8th Jul 1965) |
| 60th | Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in the UK, at HM Prison Holloway, for shooting dead a lover, David Blakely, outside a pub in Hampstead in April. (13th Jul 1955) |
| 70th | The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music. (29th Jul 1945) |
| 70th | The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. (26th Jul 1945) |
| 70th | General election results are announced; Winston Churchill resigns as prime minister after his Conservative Party is soundly defeated by the Labour Party, who have a majority of 146 seats, and Clement Attlee becomes the new prime minister. It will be the first time that a Labour government with a commons majority has governed Britain. (26th Jul 1945) |
| 70th | World War II: the leaders of the three 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. (16th Jul 1945) |
| 75th | World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army. (19th Jul 1940) |
| 75th | Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though). (10th Jul 1940) |
| 75th | World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations. (5th Jul 1940) |
| 80th | Allen Lane founds Penguin Books to publish the first mass market paperbacks in Britain. (30th Jul 1935) |
| 90th | Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph (241 km/h) land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h). (21st Jul 1925) |
| 100th | RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front. (25th Jul 1915) |
| 100th | Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War. (16th Jul 1915) |
| 150th | Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina. (27th Jul 1865) |
| 150th | The SS Great Eastern departs on a voyage to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable. (22nd Jul 1865) |
| 150th | The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England. (5th Jul 1865) |
| 150th | First speed limit is introduced in Britain by the Locomotive Act — 2 mph in town and 4 mph in the country. (5th Jul 1865) |
| 150th | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published. (4th Jul 1865) |
| 150th | The Christian Mission, later renamed The Salvation Army, is founded in Whitechapel, London by William and Catherine Booth. (2nd Jul 1865) |
| 200th | Apothecaries Act prohibits unlicensed medical practitioners. (10th Jul 1815) |
| 300th | Imprisonment of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in the Tower of London for his part in the negotiations over the Treaty of Utrecht. (9th Jul 1715) |
| 450th | The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. (29th Jul 1565) |
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