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July 7, 1975 - The Wailers play at the Boarding House in San Francisco, California.
July 7, 1977 - Devout Rastafarians believed this was the day when seven 7s clashed, as prophesied in the Book of Revelations, and Jah's final plan for Jamaica was to be revealed.
July 7, 1978 - Marley and the Wailers play the Ahoy Club in Rotterdam, Holland.
July 8, 1898 - Alec Wright is born in Hampstead, England. Waugh's novel Island in the Sun(1957) was set in Jamaica and inspired Chris Blackwell to name his company, Island Records.
July 10, 1980 - Bob Marley begins his final world tour with a concert in Dublin, Ireland.
July 14, 1978 - Marley and The Wailers play in Portland, Oregon
July 15, 1914 - Marcus Garvey returns to Jamaica after two years in England, eager to put his new ideas about black pride and repatriation.
July 18, 1975 - The band plays its first gig as Bob Marley and The Wailers, at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, with Third World as the opening act.
July 18, 1978 - Marley and The Wailers play the first of two nights at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Cruz, California.
July 19, 1975 - Bob Marley and The Wailers record the Live album at the Lyceum in London.
July 20, 1914 - Marcus Garvey starts the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Kingston, Jamaica which by the mid-1920s would have eight million followers worldwide.
July 21, 1978 - Damian Marley is born.
July 21, 1979 - Bob Marley and The Wailers play at Harvard University Stadium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
July 23, 1892 - Ras Tafari Makonnen is born in Ethiopia. He will be coronated as Haile Selassie I in 1930.
July 23, 1926 - Cedella Malcolm, Bob Marley's mother, is born.
July 24, 1978 - Bob Marley and The Wailers play Starlight Ampitheater in Burbank, California with Peter Tosh joining them for an encore of "Get Up, Stand Up."
July 25, 1946 - Rita Marley is born.
July 27, 1978 - Bob Marley and The Wailers play the Municipal Auditorium
in Austin, Texas.