!JULY July is the seventh month of the year in Gregorian calendar. It has 31 days. This month was given this name on the proposal of Mark Antony, the Roman general. It was named Julius in the honour of Caius Julius Caesar whose birthday falls in this month. It came into use from the the year of Caesar's assassination. This Julius, was first became Julie and then July. This month was also famous as the month of the outbreak of the second Revolution of France in Paris in 1830.