August 1st

The August is the 213e Jour of the Année (214e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

According to the Celtic calendar, it is the druidic feastday of Lugnasad.

Events

1 to 1900

  •    939: Battle Trans: Victoire of the Breton on the Norman and release of the Brittany.

  • 1034 : The emperor Conrad Salic the, takes possession of the Royaume of Burgundy, while receiving, with Geneva, the homage of his new vassal.
  • 1291 : Birth of Confederation Swiss (Suisse), formed by alliance between cantons forest of Uri, Schwytz and Unterwald, located in what the central Suisse forms nowadays, whose free men were assembled on the meadow of the Grütli, dominating the Lac of the Four-Cantons to sign the federal Pacte (or Serment of Grütli ) against the Habsbourg and to form the eternal Ligue.
  • 1560 : The Scottish Parliament does not recognize any more the authority of the Pape, approves a confession of faith calvinist, thus melting the Church of Scotland.
  • 1583 : Michel de Montaigne is re-elected for a second mandate with the load of mayor of Bordeaux.
  • 1589 :
    • Assassination of Henri {{III}} in Saint-Cloud by the monk Jacques Clement.
    • Henri de Navarre, the future Henri IV, reaches the throne of France.
  • 1635 : The Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
  • 1664 : The Turks are demolished with Saint-Gotthard-on-the-Raad (Hungary) by the troops of the Germanic Roman Holy roman Empire.
  • 1752 : Representation with Paris of Serva padrona of Pergolèse, by a troop of Italian comic opera, which will start the “Quarrel of the Buffoons”.
  • 1774 : The British chemist Joseph Priestley discovers the gas Dioxygène.
  • 1789 : From the approach of the Great fear , the communes of Puget and Roquesteron request helps Nice.
  • 1793 : The mountain Convention adopts the decimal metric system provisional, 443.44 lines of the " Measuring apparatus of Pérou". It replaces the Measuring units of the Old Mode.
  • 1798 : French defeat with the battles of Aboukir.
  • 1830 : Revolution in Belgium against the Holland. Foundation of Belgium.
  • 1834 : Abolition of the Slavery in the whole of the British Empire.
  • 1864 : Foundation of “National The Watch Co” (Elgin Watch Company) with Elgin, Illinois, the United States
  • 1876: The Colorado becomes the 36e state of the the United States.
  • 1882 : Beginning of the construction of the fort of Douaumont.
  • 1884 : Agreement between Germany and Russia.
  • 1897 : Franco-Russian alliance.

20th century

  • 1904 : The Japan declares the war with the China in connection with the Korea.

  • 1907 : Beginning of the first camp scout organized by Robert Baden-Powell on the island of Brownsea.
  • 1911 : France agrees to yield a share of the Congo French to Germany.
  • 1914 : The Germany declares the war with the Russia. Beginning of the First World War (the Great War ).
  • 1919 : End of the Soviet republic in Hungary.
  • 1920: The Mahatma Gandhi begins a civil disobedience campaign.
  • 1927 : Insurrection of the Chinese Communist party in China in the Jiangxi and creation of the popular Armed with release.
  • 1944 : Beginning of the Insurrection of Warsaw which will last until the October 2nd.
  • 1946 : Failure of the negotiations free-Vietnameses of Fontainebleau.
  • 1947 : UNO lance a call to the cease-fire in Indonesia, where engagements oppose Dutch and independence.
  • 1950 : Abdication of the king Léopold {{III}} of Belgium.
  • 1958 : The king Hussein dissolves the federation formed by the Jordan and Iraq.
  • 1960 : Independence of the Benign .
  • 1963 : The Great Britain agrees to grant in 1964 independence to Malta.
  • 1964 : The République of Congo (Congo-Léopoldville) re-elects Democratic republic of Congo in order to be distinguished from the République of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville).
  • 1975 : Agreements of Helsinki (CSCE): 33 European countries except Albania, plus the United States and Canada.
  • 1979 :
  • 1984 :
    • a Frenchwoman authorized with being fertilized by the frozen sperm of his/her husband deceased.
    • Marketing of the first computer " Personal Computer".
  • 1990 : The chief of the Bulgarian opposition , Jelio Jelev, becomes Head of State.
  • 1991 : Suppression of the first class in the Subway Paris IEN.
  • 1996 : The bishop of Oran (Algeria), Mgr Pierre Claverie, 58 years, is killed in his car, destroyed by a bomb in front of the door of évêché.
  • 1999 : Lifting of the embargo, in Europe, issued in 1996 on the British meat because of the crisis of the “Mad cow”.

21e century

  • 2001 : Israeli scientists announce to have succeeded in for the first time manufacturing cardiac cells starting from an human embryo.

  • 2002 : the Iraq invites the principal inspector of UNO to come to Baghdad for talks which could lead to a resumption of the control of the arsenal of the country after almost four years of interruption.
  • 2003 : the the United Nations adopt a resolution authorizing the deployment of a multinational force charged to make respect the cease-fire with the Liberia and to maintain safety after the departure of the president Charles Taylor.
  • 2003 : the rains of Mousson which fall down on the South Asia since mid-June caused risings and floods which made at least 849 died.
  • 2004 : a supermarket burns with Asunción, the capital of the Paraguay; 399 people are killed and one counts 144 missings and of many casualties.
  • 2007 :
  • 2008 : solar eclipse total.

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • national Festival Swiss, celebrating alliance enters the cantons of Uri, Schwytz and Unterwald, at the beginning of August 1291.
  • national Festival Breton.
  • national Festival of the Benign (independence of 1960).

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • the seven brothers Maccabées (+ 166 before JC), martyrs: Damages, Antonin, Gourias, Éléazar the young person, Eusébon, Akhim and Marcel, like their Salome mother and their Éléazar tutor the old one.
  • Eusèbe de Verceil (+ towards 370), bishop (principal date, also celebrated the December 15th and the August 2nd).

Catholic saint of the day

  • Alphonse de Liguori (+ 1787), instigator of the popular missions in the area of Naples then bishop.

See too

  • 1 {{er}} August in sport
  • 1 {{er}} August in the railroads

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