Historical Events In August - 01

1685  Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer on August - 01.  

1686  Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare) on this day in history.  

1690  On this day in history 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  On this day in history richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter  

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

1716  1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea) on this day in history.  

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

1743  On this day in history richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46  

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1744  Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist on this day in history.  

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

1755  On August - 01 giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer  

1759  Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France on this day in history.  

1766  Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer on August - 01.  

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  Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence on August - 01.  

1779  Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner) on this day in history.  

1780  On this day in history sweden declares neutrality  

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

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

1785  On August - 01 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 August - 01.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1794  Whiskey Rebellion begins on this day in history.  

1798  On this day in history 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  Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364) was born on August - 01.  

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

0527  On this day in history justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies  

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  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 this day in history.  

1457  Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50 on this day in history.  

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 August - 01.