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  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 August - 01.  

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

1732  On August - 01 foundation laid for Bank of England  

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

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 August - 01.  

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

1766  On August - 01 ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer  

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  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 this day in history.  

1781  On this day in history english army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia  

1785  On this day in history caroline Herschel becomes first woman discoverer of a comet  

1785  On this day in history 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  US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act on August - 01.  

1790  First US census (population of 3,939,214) on this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history 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  Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1520  On this day in history 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  Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597) was born on this day in history.  

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

0527  Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies on August - 01.  

1137  Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37) on this day in history.  

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

1227  On August - 01 death of shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)  

1402  Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) on August - 01.  

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)