Historical Events In August - 01

1685  Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer on August - 01.  

1686  On August - 01 benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare)  

1690  Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye on August - 01.  

1711  On August - 01 surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov  

1714  On this day in history monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England  

1714  Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter on this day in history.  

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

1744  On this day in history jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist  

1753  Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist on August - 01.  

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

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 this day in history william Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition  

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

1774  On August - 01 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  Sweden declares neutrality on this day in history.  

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

1785  On August - 01 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  Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister on August - 01.  

1787  On August - 01 alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90  

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

1790  On this day in history first US census (population of 3,939,214)  

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 August - 01.  

1793  On this day in history france becomes 1st country to use the metric system  

1794  Whiskey Rebellion begins on August - 01.  

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 this day in history 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  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  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 August - 01.  

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  On this day in history floris III, Count of Holland, dies  

1227  Death of Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179) on this day in history.  

1402  On August - 01 death of edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)  

1457  On August - 01 laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50  

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

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