Historical Events In August - 01

1685  On August - 01 pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer  

1686  Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare) on August - 01.  

1690  Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye on this day in history.  

1711  On this day in history surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov  

1714  Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England on August - 01.  

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

1714  On this day in history anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49  

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

1732  On this day in history foundation laid for Bank of England  

1743  On August - 01 richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46  

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  On August - 01 giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer  

1759  Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France on this day in history.  

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

1770  William Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition on August - 01.  

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

1774  Priestly discovers oxygen on August - 01.  

1776  Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence on August - 01.  

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

1780  On this day in history sweden declares neutrality  

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

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

1785  Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet on this day in history.  

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

1787  Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 on this day in history.  

1789  US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act on August - 01.  

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

1790  1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves) on August - 01.  

1793  The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France on August - 01.  

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

1794  On this day in history whiskey Rebellion begins  

1798  British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile on this day in history.  

1798  The English navy, under Nelson, defeats the French at the Battle of the Nile on August - 01.  

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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 this day in history.  

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  Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622) was born on August - 01.  

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

1579  On August - 01 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 August - 01.  

1402  Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) on this day in history.  

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  Death of Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493) on this day in history.