1st august anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1659
  • Italy
  • "Birth of Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter" more
  • 1714
  • "Birth of Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape artist and one of the founders of the Royal Academy." more
  • 1744
  • France
  • "Birth of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, naturalist"
  • 1770
  • United States
  • "Birth of William Clark, who with Meriwether Lewis made the first overland crossing to the Pacific and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States." more
  • 1819
  • United States
  • "Birth of Herman Melville, writer"
  • 1930
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Lionel Bart, Songwriter" more
• event
  • 527
  • Turkey
  • Justinian I becomes the undisputed Emperor of the whole Byzantine Empire. more
  • 1498
  • "Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of"
  • "The first European, Christopher Columbus, visited what is now the country of Venezuela."
  • 1798
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of the Nile (won by Nelson)
  • 1820
  • Great Britain
  • Regent's Canal in London opens
  • 1831
  • Great Britain
  • Opening of a new London Bridge replacing the old bridge which had stood for over 600 years. more
  • 1834
  • Great Britain
  • Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire and its colonies
  • 1876
  • United States
  • Colorado became the 38th of the United States.
  • 1883
  • Great Britain
  • Parcel post starts in Britain
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island
  • 1914
  • Germany
  • German declared war on Russia
  • 1966
  • China
  • The Cultural Revolution starts in China with the commencement of the purges against intellectuals.
• Death
  • 1714
  • Great Britain
  • Queen Anne dies and the Hanoverian dynasty starts as George I becomes king. more
  • 1743
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Richard Savage, poet"
  • 1903
  • United States
  • "Death of American frontiers woman Martha Jane Canary, better known as Calamity Jane." more
  • 1963
  • United States
  • "Death of Theodore Roethke, poet" more