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 August - 01.  

1711  Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov on this day in history.  

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

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

1732  Foundation laid for Bank of England on August - 01.  

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

1744  Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist on August - 01.  

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

1755  Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer on this day in history.  

1759  Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France on August - 01.  

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 August - 01.  

1776  Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence on this day in history.  

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

1780  Sweden declares neutrality on August - 01.  

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

1786  On this day in history louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister  

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  First US census (population of 3,939,214) on this day in history.  

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

1793  On August - 01 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  Whiskey Rebellion begins on this day in history.  

1798  On August - 01 british under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile  

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

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1313  On August - 01 birth of emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

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

0527  On this day in history justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies  

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

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  Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) on August - 01.  

1457  On this day in history laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50  

1464  Death of Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386) on August - 01.  

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