About August 1
August 1, 2025 is the 213th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 200 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 1
- 69 –Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
- 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).
- 1203 –Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
- 1498 –Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
- 1664 –The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- 1759 –Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
- 1800 –The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1840 –Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1842 –The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
- 1927 –The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.
- 1937 –Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution “Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH” to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
- 1944 –The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1957 –The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1960 –Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1966 –Charles Whitman kills 16 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
- 1966 –Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People’s Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 1984 –Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England.
- 1993 –The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
- 2007 –The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
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