Historical Events In August - 01

1685  Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer on this day in history.   

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

1690  Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye on August - 01.   

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

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

1716  On this day in history 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  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  Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer on this day in history.   

1759  On this day in history battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France   

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  Priestly discovers oxygen on August - 01.   

1776  On August - 01 formal signing of the Declaration of Independence   

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

1780  On this day in history sweden declares neutrality   

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

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

1789  On August - 01 uS Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act   

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 August - 01.   

1794  On August - 01 whiskey Rebellion begins   

1798  British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile on August - 01.   

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

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1313  Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364) was born on this day in history.   

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 August - 01.   

1495  Jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect was born on August - 01.   

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

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

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

1137  On this day in history louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)   

1190  On this day in history floris III, Count of Holland, dies   

1227  On August - 01 death of shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)   

1402  On this day in history 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 August - 01.   

1464  Death of Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386) on this day in history.   

1541  Death of Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493) on August - 01.