Page 2: Historical Events In August - 01

1685  On August - 01 pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer   

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

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

1711  Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov on this day in history.   

1714  Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England on this day in history.   

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

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

1744  On August - 01 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  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 August - 01.   

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

1774  Priestly discovers oxygen on August - 01.   

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

1779  Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner) on August - 01.   

1780  On this day in history sweden declares neutrality   

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

1785  Caroline Herschel becomes first woman discoverer of a comet on this day in history.   

1785  On August - 01 caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet   

1786  Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister on August - 01.   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

1322  On August - 01 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  On this day in history birth of jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect   

1520  On August - 01 birth of sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72)   

1545  On August - 01 birth of andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)   

1555  On this day in history birth of edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)   

1579  Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644) was born on August - 01.   

0527  Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies on August - 01.   

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  On this day in history death of shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)   

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

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