• July 2, 1935, Ashland hosts the first Oregon Shakespeare Festival, featuring Twelfth Night.
• July 3, 1905, U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell is convicted in the Oregon land fraud scandal.
• July 5, 1843, the first Organic Laws of Oregon are passed creating a framework for the Provisional Government.
• July 9, 1940, former Oregon Attorney General and longtime President of the University of Oregon, David B. Frohnmayer is born in Medford.
• July 12, 2002, the Biscuit Fire starts in Southern Oregon and is not contained until the end of the year.
• July 15, 1896, the battleship USS Oregon is commissioned under the command of Captain H. L. Howison.
• July 16, 2006, a Hawker Hunter jet crashes after leaving the Oregon International Airshow in Hillsboro.
• July 20, 2001, the Portland Streetcar system, the first modern-streetcar system to open in the U.S. since the 1940s, begins operating.
• July 28, 1878, former two-time acting governor of the Oregon Territory, George Law Curry dies in Portland.
• July 28, 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal House, starring John Belushi, and filmed in Eugene, Cottage Grove and Pleasant Hill, premiers.

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