Page 2: Historical Events In August - 01

1685  Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer on August - 01.   

1686  Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare) on August - 01.   

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

1711  On August - 01 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 this day in history.   

1714  Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49 on August - 01.   

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

1732  Foundation laid for Bank of England on August - 01.   

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

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  On August - 01 giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer   

1759  Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France on August - 01.   

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 August - 01 joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time   

1774  On this day in history priestly discovers oxygen   

1776  On this day in history formal signing of the Declaration of Independence   

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

1780  On August - 01 sweden declares neutrality   

1781  English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia on this day in history.   

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 this day in history louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister   

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

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

1793  The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France on August - 01.   

1793  France becomes 1st country to use the metric system on August - 01.   

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  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 August - 01.   

1322  Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian was born on this day in history.   

1377  On August - 01 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 this day in history.   

1545  On this day in history 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  Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies on this day in history.   

1137  On August - 01 louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)   

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  Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) on this day in history.   

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

1464  On this day in history death of cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)   

1541  Death of Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493) on this day in history.