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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1798 –French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
- 1840 –Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1855 –The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
- 1914 –Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1964 –The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
- 1966 –Charles Whitman kills 16 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
- 1968 –The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- 1980 –Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
- 1980 –Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country’s first democratically elected female head of state
- 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.
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