Historical Events In August - 01

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

1686  On August - 01 benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare)  

1690  On August - 01 battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye  

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

1714  On this day in history monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England  

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

1714  Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49 on August - 01.  

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

1732  On August - 01 foundation laid for Bank of England  

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

1744  On this day in history jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist  

1753  On August - 01 charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist  

1755  On August - 01 giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer  

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

1766  On this day in history ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer  

1770  On August - 01 william Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition  

1774  On August - 01 joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time  

1774  Priestly discovers oxygen on this day in history.  

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

1779  On August - 01 francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)  

1780  On August - 01 sweden declares neutrality  

1781  English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia on this day in history.  

1785  Caroline Herschel becomes first woman discoverer of a comet on this day in history.  

1785  Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet on August - 01.  

1786  Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister on this day in history.  

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 August - 01.  

1790  First US census (population of 3,939,214) on August - 01.  

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

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

1793  On August - 01 france becomes 1st country to use the metric system  

1794  Whiskey Rebellion begins on August - 01.  

1798  On August - 01 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 August - 01 birth of emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)  

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

1377  Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433) was born on August - 01.  

1495  Jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect was born on August - 01.  

1520  On August - 01 birth of sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72)  

1545  On August - 01 birth of andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)  

1555  On August - 01 birth of edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)  

1579  On this day in history birth of luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)  

0527  On August - 01 justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies  

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

1190  On August - 01 floris III, Count of Holland, dies  

1227  Death of Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179) on this day in history.  

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

1457  On August - 01 laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50  

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

1541  On this day in history death of simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)