What is July 21?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[356 BC]] &ndash; The [[Temple of Artemis]] in [[Ephesus]] (present–day [[Turkey]]), one of the [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]], is destroyed in an arson attack. * [[230]] &ndash; [[Pope Pontian]] succeeds [[Pope Urban I]]. * [[285]] &ndash; [[Diocletian]] appoints [[Maximian]] as Roman Caesar and co–ruler. * [[365]] &ndash; After a magnitude 8 [[earthquake]], and a [[tsunami]], around 50,000 people are killed in and around [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]]. * [[1342]] &ndash; The [[St. Mary Magdalene's flood]] leads to several rivers in central [[Europe]] bursting their banks. It is Europe's worst flood of the second millennium. * [[1403]] &ndash; [[Battle of Shrewsbury]]: King [[Henry IV of England]] defeats rebels in the [[north]] of the [[county]] of [[Shropshire]]. * [[1545]] &ndash; The first landing of [[France|French]] troops on the [[coast]] of the [[Isle of Wight]], during the [[island]]'s French invasion. * [[1645]] &ndash; [[Qing Dynasty]] regent [[Dorgon]] issues an [[edict]] ordering all male subjects of the Qing to shave their [[forehead]] and [[braid]] the rest of their [[hair]] into a [[queue]] identical to those of the [[Manchuria|Manchus]]. However another source says Salars wore the queue.<ref>{{cite book |last1=LIPMAN |first1=JONATHAN N. |title=Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China |date=1997 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=0-295-97644-6 |url=https://uw.manifoldapp.org/read/b1e86876-32e9-40cd-a327-1c580b063bbd/section/f009a061-483a-4284-86bd-8459d7cc5b92 |page=105|chapter=4 / Strategies of Resistance Integration by Violence}}</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8Nzux7z6KAC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=%22their+frontier+environment.+They+wore+the+queue%22&source=bl&ots=65Ct2zbZl9&sig=ACfU3U1WiRRyRtP8aRQZ2yb49mfQRdZGhA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx8eOg4JT-AhX-RPEDHaPlB-4Q6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=%22their%20frontier%20environment.%20They%20wore%20the%20queue%22&f=false</ref><ref>https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/19