Page 2: Historical Events In August - 01

1685  Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer on this day in history.   

1686  On this day in history benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare)   

1690  On August - 01 battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye   

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

1714  On August - 01 monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England   

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

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

1743  Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 on August - 01.   

1744  On August - 01 jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist   

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 August - 01.   

1774  On this day in history priestly discovers oxygen   

1776  On August - 01 formal signing of the Declaration of Independence   

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

1780  On this day in history sweden declares neutrality   

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

1785  Caroline Herschel becomes first woman discoverer of a comet on August - 01.   

1785  On this day in history caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet   

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

1787  On this day in history alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90   

1789  On this day in history uS Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act   

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

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

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 August - 01 whiskey Rebellion begins   

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 August - 01.   

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1313  Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364) was born on this day in history.   

1322  Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian was born on August - 01.   

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

1545  Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622) was born on August - 01.   

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 this day in history.   

0527  On August - 01 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 August - 01.   

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