Page 2: 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  On this day in history surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov   

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 this day in history 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 August - 01.   

1743  Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 August - 01.   

1774  On August - 01 joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time   

1774  Priestly discovers oxygen on this day in history.   

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

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

1780  On August - 01 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 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 August - 01.   

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

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

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

1793  On August - 01 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  On August - 01 birth of emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)   

1322  Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian was born on this day in history.   

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  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  On August - 01 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  On August - 01 louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)   

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

1227  On this day in history death of shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)   

1402  Death of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) on this day in history.   

1457  On this day in history laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50   

1464  On this day in history death of cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)   

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