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On this day - August 1
Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, executes ...
69 — Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior ...
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 ...
902 — Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured ...
1203 — Isaac II Angelos, restored Byzantine Emperor, declares his son ...
1291 — The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the ...
1469 — Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order ...
1498 — Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what ...
1571 — The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender ...
1620 — Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by ...
1664 — Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by ...
1714 — George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great ...
1759 — Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied ...
1774 — British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, ...
1798 — French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of ...
1800 — The Acts of Union 1800 are passed which merge the Kingdom of ...
1801 — First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise ...
1834 — Construction begins on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston ...
1834 — Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery ...
1842 — The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ...
1849 — Joven Daniel wrecks at the coast of Araucanía, Chile, leading ...
1855 — The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in ...
1863 — At the suggestion of Senator J. V. Snellman and the order of ...
1876 — Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1893 — Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
1894 — The Empire of Japan and Qing China declare war on each other ...
1907 — The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the ...
1911 — Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the ...
1914 — World War I: The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1914 — World War I: The German Empire declares war on the Russian ...
1915 — Patrick Pearse gives his famous speech "Ireland unfree ...
1927 — The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in ...
1933 — Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff ...
1936 — The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by ...
1937 — Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of ...
1943 — World War II: Operation Tidal Wave, also known as "Black ...
1944 — World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German ...
1946 — Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian ...
1950 — Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United ...
1957 — The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace ...
1960 — Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of ...
1960 — Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from ...
1961 — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of ...
1964 — The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of ...
1965 — Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first ...
1966 — Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official ...
1966 — Charles Whitman kills 15 people at the University of Texas at ...
1968 — The coronation of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei, ...
1971 — The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George ...
1974 — Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes ...
1975 — The final act of the CSCE meeting is signed in Helsinki, ...
1976 — Niki Lauda has a severe accident that almost claims his life ...
1980 — A train crash kills 18 people and injures over 170 more in ...
1980 — Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and ...
1981 — MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its ...
1984 — Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a ...
1988 — A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in ...
1990 — A plane crash in the Karabakh Range kills 46 people.
1993 — The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes ...
1998 — Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, was ...
2004 — A supermarket fire kills 424 people and injures 360 others in ...
2007 — The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi ...
2008 — Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, ...
2008 — The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the ...
2017 — A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 ...
2023 — Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in ...