Historical Events In August - 01

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

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 this day in history.  

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

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  On August - 01 foundation laid for Bank of England  

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

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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  On this day in history ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer  

1770  William Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition on this day in history.  

1774  On this day in history joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time  

1774  On this day in history priestly discovers oxygen  

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

1779  On this day in history francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)  

1780  Sweden declares neutrality on August - 01.  

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 this day in history.  

1789  US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act on this day in history.  

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

1790  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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  British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1377  Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433) was born on this day in history.  

1495  On this day in history 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 August - 01.  

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

1190  Floris III, Count of Holland, dies on this day in history.  

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

1402  On August - 01 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 this day in history.  

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.