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George I by Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine
(1680-1745)
© Royal Collection
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744-1829
Emperor Wilhelm II
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August 1 |
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| BC- Lyon: altar given to Rome/emperor August | ||
| Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily |
George I by Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine
(1680-1745) |
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| Justinianus I succeeds Justinus I as emperor of Byzantium | ||
| Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II | ||
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744-1829 |
1021 Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest | |
| 1086 English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1404 Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland | ||
| 1485 Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England | ||
| 1498 Christopher Columbus landed on mainland America, but thinking it was an island, called it Isla Santa. | ||
| 1520 Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72) was born | ||
| 1588 English admiral Sigismund II Augustus beats Spanish Armada | ||
| 1589 Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III | ||
| 1619 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia | ||
| 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 K” | ||
| 1690 Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye | ||
| 1711 Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov | ||
| 1714 Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England | ||
| 1716 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea) |
Emperor Wilhelm II |
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| 1716 Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed | ||
| 1732 Foundation laid for Bank of England | ||
| 1744 Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist was born | ||
| 1774 Joseph Priestley, the British Presbyterian minister and chemist, identified a gas which he called "dephlogisticated air" -- later known as oxygen. | ||
| 1780 Sweden declares neutrality | ||
| 1781 English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia | ||
| 1785 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet | ||
| 1789 US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act | ||
| 1793 France became the first country to use the metric system of weights and measures, a byproduct of the French Revolution. | ||
| 1794 Whiskey Rebellion begins | ||
| 1798 Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet | ||
| 1812 Rare tornado hits Westchester County NY | ||
| 1814 Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat | ||
| 1819 Herman Melville, US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd) was born | ||
| 1831 London Bridge opens to traffic | ||
| 1834 Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire; an estimated 770,280 slaves became free. | ||
| 1838 Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas | ||
| 1842 Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens | ||
| 1855 Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants | ||
| 1861 Brazil recognizes Confederacy | ||
| 1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn) | ||
| 1869 1st voyage down Colorado River | ||
| 1881 Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer was born | ||
| 1883 A papyrus offered to Brit 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 | ||
| 1896 George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England) | ||
| 1902 Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die) | ||
| 1903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed | ||
| 1907 Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF | ||
| 1907 Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division | ||
| 1909 British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed | ||
| 1914 Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I | ||
| 1914 France & Germany mobilize | ||
| 1914 Germany declares war on Russia in WW I | ||
| 1914 Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg | ||
| 1916 Hawaii National Park forms | ||
| 1918 British troops enter Vladivostok | ||
| 1919 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam | ||
| 1920 Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia | ||
| 1926 Battles between Druzen & French in Damascus | ||
| 1926 Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona | ||
| 1933 Death penality for anti fascists in Germany | ||
| 1933 Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno | ||
| 1936 Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin | ||
| 1941 Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division | ||
| 1942 German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers | ||
| 1943 Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw | ||
| 1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested | ||
| 1944 General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army | ||
| 1944 US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt | ||
| 1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's | ||
| 1946 Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) | ||
| 1950 Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act) | ||
| 1950 King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King | ||
| 1950 Territory of Guam created | ||
| 1953 Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba | ||
| 1953 Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland | ||
| 1957 US & Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) | ||
| 1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia | ||
| 1962 Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana | ||
| 1966 Yakubu Gowon assumed power in Nigeria following an army coup. | ||
| 1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins | ||
| 1975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations | ||
| 1978 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead | ||
| 1979 Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms govt in Portugal | ||
| 1982 Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut | ||
| 1990 A five-day coup attempt in Trinidad and Tobago ended with the surrender of the Black Muslim rebels and the release of their captives. | ||
| 1994 Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed | ||