Page 2: 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  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 August - 01 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 this day in history.   

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

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

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  Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist on this day in history.   

1755  Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer on August - 01.   

1759  On this day in history battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France   

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

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

1774  Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time on this day in history.   

1774  On August - 01 priestly discovers oxygen   

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

1779  On this day in history 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  On August - 01 caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet   

1786  On August - 01 louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister   

1787  Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 on August - 01.   

1789  On August - 01 uS Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act   

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 this day in history.   

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  On August - 01 whiskey Rebellion begins   

1798  British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile on August - 01.   

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  On this day in history birth of peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian   

1377  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)   

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 this day in history 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 August - 01 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 this day in history.   

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 August - 01.   

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

1464  On August - 01 death of cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)   

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