Historical Events In August - 01

1685  Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer on August - 01.  

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

1690  On this day in history battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye  

1711  On August - 01 surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov  

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

1714  Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter on this day in history.  

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

1716  On this day in history 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)  

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

1743  Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 on this day in history.  

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1744  Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist on this day in history.  

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  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  On this day in history joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time  

1774  On August - 01 priestly discovers oxygen  

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

1779  Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner) on August - 01.  

1780  Sweden declares neutrality on August - 01.  

1781  English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia on August - 01.  

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

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 August - 01 alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90  

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

1790  On August - 01 first US census (population of 3,939,214)  

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

1793  On August - 01 the metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France  

1793  France becomes 1st country to use the metric system on this day in history.  

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 August - 01 the English navy, under Nelson, defeats the French at the Battle of the Nile  

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1313  Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364) was born on August - 01.  

1322  On August - 01 birth of peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian  

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

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

1520  Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72) was born on August - 01.  

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

1555  Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597) was born on this day in history.  

1579  Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644) was born on August - 01.  

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

1137  Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37) on August - 01.  

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

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

1402  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)