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August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining.
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1 Events
- 527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
- 1245 - First Council of Lyons opens.
- 1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed.
- 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
- 1461Events February 2 Battle of Mortimer's Cross Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales. February 17 Second Battle of St Albans The Earl of Warwick's army is defeated by a Lancastrian force - Edward IVEdward IV ( April 28, 1442 April 9, 1483) was King of England 1461- 1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470- 1471. Biography Edward was born on April 28, 1442, at Rouen in France, the eldest son of Richard, Duke of York (a leading claimant t crowned king of EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England.
- 1498Events May 20 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut (now Kozhikode), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa. May 23 Girolamo Savonarola, ruler of Florence, is executed for criticizing the Pope. July 31 On h - Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus ( 1451 1— May 20, 1506) was an explorer and trader who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas in 1492 under the flag of Castilian Spain. He believed that the earth was a relatively small sphere, and argued that a ship cou discovers VenezuelaThe Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela") is a country in northern South America. 1 It borders the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Guyana to the east, Brazil to.
- 1619Events May 13 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason. July 30 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. - First Black slaves landed in Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
- 1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
- 1776 - Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1790 - The first census of the United States is completed. The total population of the thirteen states was 3,929,214.
- 1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion begins in Pennsylvania.
- 1798 - Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
- 1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
- 1831 - London Bridge opens.
- 1832 - Black Hawk War ends.
- 1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
- 1838 - Victoria crowned queen of Britain.
- 1864 - American Civil War: General Philip Sheridan takes command of the Army of the Shenandoah.
- 1864 - foundation of Elgin Watch Company in Elgin, Illinois
- 1859 - First dog show held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
- 1873 - First cable car begins service in San Francisco, California.
- 1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1894 - War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
- 1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
- 1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
- 1909 - United States Army Air Corps founded.
- 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia.
- 1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.
- 1936 - The Berlin Olympic Games are opened.
- 1941 - The first Jeep is produced.
- 1943 - PT-109, with Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.
- 1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
- 1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1950 - King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates.
- 1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command ( NORAD).
- 1960 - Benin declares independence from France
- 1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
- 1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin.
- 1965 - President Johnson authorizes the first use of American ground troops in the Vietnam War.
- 1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
- 1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, before being killed by the police.
- 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- 1971 - George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
- 1981 - First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was Video Killed The Radio Star by Buggles.
- 1991 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir accepts a formula for peace talks in the Middle East.
- 1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumours that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
- 1996 - Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
- 2001 - In talks between the government and representatives of the Albanian minority in the Republic of Macedonia, an agreement is reached on the position of the Albanian language in the Republic.
- 2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
- 2004 - Paraguay: In capital city Asuncion a supermarket burned. More than 215 dead and 300 people injured.