01/08/2015
On this day in history: 1st August:
30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
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).
649 - Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7]
860 - Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II
902 - Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
1021 - Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
1086 - Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable)
1177 - Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III
1203 - Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
1291 - Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
1485 - Henry Tudor's army sails to England (future Henry VII)
1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
1589 - Assination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément
1626 - Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
1664 - Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu
1690 - Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus of Savoy
1711 - Surrounded Tsar Peter the Great flees Azov
1714 - Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes King George I of England
1715 - First Doggett's Coat and Badge race (Waterman's race) held on Thames River (London Bridge to Chelsea)
1732 - Foundations laid for Bank of England
1759 - Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
1774 - Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author discovers oxygen
1780 - Sweden declares neutrality
1785 - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
1793 - France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
1798 - Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
1814 - Belgian King Willem I accepts blame in Southern defeat
1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
1831 - London Bridge opens to traffic
1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
1834 - Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
1838 - Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer indentured to former owners.
1840 - Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842 - Rotherhithe Tunnel under the Thames opens
1870 - Irish Land Act gives rights to tenants of landlords in Ireland.
1883 - A papyrus offered to British Museum for £10,000 (forgery)
1883 - Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
1883 - Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
1886 - Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
1893 - Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat
1902 - Building begins on Dutch public housing
1902 - Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, Dorset
1909 - British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
1914 - British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
1914 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WW I) of Russia in WWI
1914 - France & Germany mobilize their troops at outbreak of WWI
1914 - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enters Luxembourg on outbreak of WWI
1918 - British troops enter Vladivostok
1919 - Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
1920 - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
1922 - In Italy, the socialist 'Alianza del Lavoro' declare a national strike which collapses immediately and fascist forces destroy union and socialist headquarters
1925 - Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk & Netherland East-Indies
1926 - Battles between Druze & French in Damascus
1926 - Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
1933 - Death penality for anti-fascists in Germany
1933 - Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrests Sukarno
1936 - Adolf Hi**er opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1941 - Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
1942 - German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
1943 - Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383
1944 - Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1944 - Uprising in Warsaw
1950 - King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King
1951 - David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1953 - Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
1954 - In South Africa, The Natives Resettlement Act empowers the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg; less than a year after the Act was passed Sophiatown residents were forcefully removed to Meadowlands in Soweto
1955 - 1st microgravity research begins
1955 - Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government
