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  Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye on this day in history.   

1711  On August - 01 surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov   

1714  On August - 01 monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England   

1714  Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter on August - 01.   

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

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

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

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  Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist on this day in history.   

1755  On August - 01 giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer   

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

1766  Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer on August - 01.   

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  On August - 01 priestly discovers oxygen   

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

1779  On this day in history francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)   

1780  Sweden declares neutrality on August - 01.   

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

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

1785  Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet on August - 01.   

1786  Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister on this day in history.   

1787  Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 on August - 01.   

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

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

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

1793  The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France on this day in history.   

1793  France becomes 1st country to use the metric system on August - 01.   

1794  On this day in history whiskey Rebellion begins   

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

1798  On this day in history 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  Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433) was born on this day in history.   

1495  On August - 01 birth of jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect   

1520  Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72) was born on August - 01.   

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  On August - 01 birth of luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)   

0527  On this day in history justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies   

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 August - 01.   

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

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

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