- July 8, 969 - Sviatoslav moved the capital from Kyiv to Pereyaslavets in Bulgaria
- July 14, 1471 - Battle of Shelon: A Muscovite army defeated a numerically superior Novgorodian force.
- July 15, 1240 - Battle of the Neva: The Novgorodian army defeated a Swedish invasion force at the confluence of the Izhora and Neva Rivers.
- July 17, 1762 - Peter was overthrown by the Imperial Guard and replaced with his wife, Catherine II, The Great, on her orders.
- July 24, 1783 - Threatened by the Persian and Ottoman Empires, the kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti signed the Treaty of Georgievsk under which it became a Russian protectorate.