Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 21
July 21: The National holiday of Belgium
- 1298 – Edward I of England defeated William Wallace's Scottish troops at the Battle of Falkirk.
- 1831 – In Brussels, Leopold I was inaugurated as the first King of the Belgians.
- 1861 – The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle in the American Civil War, began.
- 1970 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed after 11 years of construction.
- 1995 – The Chinese People's Liberation Army began firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan, starting the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.