About August 1
August 1, 2021 is the 213th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 184 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 1
- 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.
- 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.
- 1291 –The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1838 –Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1842 –The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
- 1855 –The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
- 1894 –The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 1907 –The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
- 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.
- 1960 –Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1968 –The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- 1974 –Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the “Green Line”, dividing Cyprus into two zones.
- 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
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