Historical Events In August - 01

1685  On this day in history pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer  

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

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

1714  On this day in history richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter  

1714  Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49 on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist  

1755  On August - 01 giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer  

1759  On August - 01 battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France  

1766  On this day in history ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer  

1770  On this day in history william Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition  

1774  Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time on this day in history.  

1774  On this day in history priestly discovers oxygen  

1776  Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence on August - 01.  

1779  On August - 01 francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)  

1780  On this day in history sweden declares neutrality  

1781  English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia on August - 01.  

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  Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 on August - 01.  

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

1790  First US census (population of 3,939,214) on this day in history.  

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

1793  On August - 01 the metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France  

1793  France becomes 1st country to use the metric system on this day in history.  

1794  Whiskey Rebellion begins on August - 01.  

1798  On August - 01 british under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile  

1798  On August - 01 the English navy, under Nelson, defeats the French at the Battle of the Nile  

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1313  On August - 01 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  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)  

1495  Jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect was born on this day in history.  

1520  Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72) was born on this day in history.  

1545  Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622) was born on this day in history.  

1555  Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597) was born on August - 01.  

1579  On this day in history birth of luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)  

0527  Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies on this day in history.  

1137  Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37) on this day in history.  

1190  Floris III, Count of Holland, dies on August - 01.  

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

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

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