Historical Events In August - 01

1685  Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer on this day in history.   

1686  Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare) on this day in history.   

1690  Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye on August - 01.   

1711  Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov on August - 01.   

1714  Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England on this day in history.   

1714  Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter on August - 01.   

1714  On August - 01 anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49   

1716  1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea) on August - 01.   

1732  Foundation laid for Bank of England on this day in history.   

1743  Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 on August - 01.   

1744  On August - 01 jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist   

1753  On this day in history charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist   

1755  Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer on August - 01.   

1759  On August - 01 battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France   

1766  Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer on August - 01.   

1770  On this day in history william Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition   

1774  Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time on August - 01.   

1774  On August - 01 priestly discovers oxygen   

1776  On August - 01 formal signing of the Declaration of Independence   

1779  Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner) on this day in history.   

1780  On August - 01 sweden declares neutrality   

1781  On August - 01 english army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia   

1785  On this day in history caroline Herschel becomes first woman discoverer of a comet   

1785  On August - 01 caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet   

1786  Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister on August - 01.   

1787  On this day in history alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90   

1789  US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act on this day in history.   

1790  On this day in history first US census (population of 3,939,214)   

1790  1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves) on this day in history.   

1793  On this day in history the metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France   

1793  On this day in history france becomes 1st country to use the metric system   

1794  On this day in history whiskey Rebellion begins   

1798  On this day in history british under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile   

1798  On this day in history the English navy, under Nelson, defeats the French at the Battle of the Nile   

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1313  On this day in history birth of emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)   

1322  Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian was born on August - 01.   

1377  On August - 01 birth of emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)   

1495  On August - 01 birth of jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect   

1520  Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72) was born on this day in history.   

1545  On this day in history birth of andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)   

1555  On this day in history birth of edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)   

1579  Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644) was born on this day in history.   

0527  Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies on this day in history.   

1137  On August - 01 louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)   

1190  Floris III, Count of Holland, dies on August - 01.   

1227  On this day in history death of shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)   

1402  On August - 01 death of edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)   

1457  Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50 on August - 01.   

1464  Death of Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386) on this day in history.   

1541  On August - 01 death of simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)