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August 1
Events
30 BC
–
Octavian
(later known as Augustus) enters
Alexandria
,
Egypt
, bringing it under the control of the
Roman Republic
.
69
–
Batavian rebellion
: The
Batavians
in
Germania Inferior
(Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of
Gaius Julius Civilis
.
527
–
Justinian I
becomes the sole ruler of the
Byzantine Empire
.
607
–
Ono no Imoko
is dispatched as envoy to the
Sui
court in China (Traditional
Japanese date
: July 3, 607).
902
–
Taormina
, the last Byzantine stronghold in
Sicily
, is captured by the
Aghlabids
army, concluding the
Muslim conquest of Sicily
.
1203
–
Isaac II Angelos
, restored
Eastern Roman Emperor
, declares his son
Alexios IV Angelos
co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the
Fourth Crusade
.
1291
– The
Old Swiss Confederacy
is formed with the signature of the
Federal Charter
.
1469
–
Louis XI of France
founds the
chivalric order
called the
Order of Saint Michael
in
Amboise
.
1498
–
Christopher Columbus
becomes the first European to visit what is now
Venezuela
.
1620
– The
Speedwell
leaves
Delfshaven
to bring
pilgrims
to
America
by way of England.
1664
–
Ottoman forces
are defeated in the
battle of Saint Gotthard
by an
Austrian
army led by
Raimondo Montecuccoli
, resulting in the
Peace of Vasvár
.
1714
– George, Elector of
Hanover
, becomes King
George I of Great Britain
, marking the beginning of the
Georgian era
of British history.
1715
– The
Riot Act
comes into force in England.
1759
–
Seven Years' War
: The
Battle of Minden
, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the
Annus Mirabilis of 1759
and is celebrated as
Minden Day
by certain British Army regiments.
1774
– British scientist
Joseph Priestley
discovers
oxygen
gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
.
1798
–
French Revolutionary Wars
:
Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay)
: Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800
– The
Acts of Union 1800
is passed in which merges the
Kingdom of Great Britain
and the
Kingdom of Ireland
into the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
.
1801
–
First Barbary War
: The American
schooner
captures
the
Tripolitan
polacca
Tripoli
in a
single-ship action
off the coast of modern-day
Libya
.
1831
– A new
London Bridge
opens.
1834
–
Slavery
is abolished in the
British Empire
as the
Slavery Abolition Act 1833
comes into force.
1838
– Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1840
– Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842
– The
Lombard Street riot
erupts in
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
, United States.
1855
– The first ascent of
Monte Rosa
, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1876
–
Colorado
is admitted as the 38th
U.S. state
.
1894
– The
First Sino-Japanese War
erupts between
Japan
and
China
over Korea.
1907
– The start of the
first Scout camp
on
Brownsea Island
, the origin of the worldwide
Scouting
movement.
1911
–
Harriet Quimby
takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
1914
– The
German Empire
declares war on the
Russian Empire
at the opening of World War I. The
Swiss Army
mobilizes because of World War I.
1927
– The
Nanchang Uprising
marks the first significant battle in the
Chinese Civil War
between the
Kuomintang
and
Chinese Communist Party
. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the
People's Liberation Army
.
1937
–
Josip Broz Tito
reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (
Croatian Communist Party
) in woods near
Samobor
.
1944
–
World War II
: The
Warsaw Uprising
against the
Nazi
occupation breaks out in
Warsaw
, Poland.
1946
– Leaders of the
Russian Liberation Army
, a force of Russian prisoners of war that
collaborated with Nazi Germany
, are executed in Moscow,
Soviet Union
for treason.
1957
– The United States and Canada form the
North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD).
1960
–
Dahomey
(later renamed
Benin
) declares independence from France.
1960 –
Islamabad
is declared the
federal capital
of the
Government of Pakistan
.
1961
– U.S. Defense Secretary
Robert McNamara
orders the creation of the
Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1964
– The former
Belgian Congo
is renamed the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
.
1966
–
Charles Whitman
kills 16 people at the
University of Texas at Austin
before being killed by the police.
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the
Cultural Revolution
.
1968
– The coronation is held of
Hassanal Bolkiah
, the 29th
Sultan of Brunei
.
1974
–
Cyprus dispute
: The
United Nations Security Council
authorizes the
UNFICYP
to create the "
Green Line
", dividing
Cyprus
into two zones.
1975
–
CSCE Final Act
creates the
Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe
.
1980
–
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
is elected
President of Iceland
and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
1980 – A
train crash
kills 18 people in
County Cork
,
Ireland
.
1981
–
MTV
begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "
Video Killed the Radio Star
" by
The Buggles
.
1984
– Commercial
peat
-cutters discover the preserved
bog body
of a man, called
Lindow Man
, at
Lindow Moss
,
Cheshire
, northwest England
1993
– The
Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993
comes to a peak.
2001
–
Alabama Supreme Court
Chief Justice
Roy Moore
has a
Ten Commandments
monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a
lawsuit
to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004
– A
supermarket fire
kills 396 people and injures 500 others in
Asunción
,
Paraguay
.
2007
– The
I-35W Mississippi River bridge
spanning the
Mississippi River
in
Minneapolis, Minnesota
, collapses during the evening
rush hour
.
2008
– The
Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway
begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in
the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering
.
2010
–
Convention on Cluster Munitions
enters into force.
2014
–
Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
enters into force.
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