- Jul 1 The Orange River Colony, known as the Orange Free State, is granted self-government by the British
- Jul 2 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Evelyn Sears beats fellow American Carrie Neely 6-3, 6-2 for her lone major singles title
- Jul 3 Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
Burns KOs Squires
Jul 4 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires of Australia in round 1 in Colma, California, his 6th title defense
Wimbledon Men's Championship
Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Australian Norman Brookes becomes the first non-Englishman and left-hander to win Wimbledon beating Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
- Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American May Sutton avenges previous year's defeat, beating Dorothea Chambers 6-1, 6-4
- Jul 6 Tom Reece takes 5 weeks to compile the highest recorded billiards break in a match (499,135) in London, his 'cradle' cannon method is soon banned
- Jul 8 Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
- Jul 18 Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907" premieres in NYC
- Jul 18 French troops occupy Casablanca
- Jul 19 Under pressure from the Japanese, the Emperor of Korea abdicates in favor of his son, a figurehead
- Jul 20 A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more
- Jul 23 International Lawn Tennis Challenge (later Davis Cup) at Wimbledon: Norman Brookes beats Herbert Roper Barrett 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 to give Australasia a 3-2 win over British Isles
- Jul 25 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan
- Jul 29 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
Boy Scouts Formed
Jul 29 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
- Jul 30 Russia and Japan sign an agreement guaranteeing freedom of China while recognizing each other's special interests
- Jul 30 Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners
- Jul 30 The Filipinos elect their first legislature; it will meet on 16 October
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