Page 2: Historical Events In August - 01

1685  Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer on August - 01.   

1686  On this day in history benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare)   

1690  On this day in history battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye   

1711  Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov on August - 01.   

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

1714  On August - 01 richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter   

1714  On August - 01 anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49   

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

1732  Foundation laid for Bank of England on this day in history.   

1743  On August - 01 richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46   

1744  On August - 01 jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist   

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 this day in history.   

1766  Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer on this day in history.   

1770  On August - 01 william Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition   

1774  Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time on August - 01.   

1774  Priestly discovers oxygen on August - 01.   

1776  Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence on this day in history.   

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

1780  Sweden declares neutrality on this day in history.   

1781  On August - 01 english army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia   

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

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

1789  On this day in history uS Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act   

1790  On August - 01 first US census (population of 3,939,214)   

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 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  British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile on August - 01.   

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 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 August - 01 birth of emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)   

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

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 this day in history.   

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  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  Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) on August - 01.   

1457  Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50 on August - 01.   

1464  Death of Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386) on August - 01.   

1541  On August - 01 death of simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)