Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 12
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This is a list of selected July 12 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.July 12: The Twelfth, commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne (1690) in Northern Ireland
- 1543 – King Henry VIII of England married Catherine Parr (pictured), his sixth and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace.
- 1580 – Ostrog Bible, the first Bible in Old Church Slavonic, was printed in Ostroh, Ukraine by Ivan Fyodorov.
- 1806 – Sixteen German imperial states left the Holy Roman Empire and formed the Confederation of the Rhine.
- 1862 – The U.S. Army Medal of Honor was first authorized by the U.S. Congress.
- 1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declared independence from Portugal.
- 1979 – The Gilbert Islands gained independence and became known as Kiribati.
