Events
30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
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).
902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos 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.
1469 – Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise.
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1620 – The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
1714 – George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
1715 – The Riot Act comes into force in England.
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.
1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
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.
1800 – The Acts 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.
1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1855 – The first receiving station for immigrants in the United States opens in Castle Clinton, NY.
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
1911 – Harriet Quimby she took her pilot's test and became the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1932 – George Washington quarter enters circulation.
1936 – The Summer Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. Jesse Owens was the most successful athlete — of any race.
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 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1944 – Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary.
1945 – Mel Ott, NY Giants outfielder, makes history with his 500th MLB home run
1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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 China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
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.
1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
1980 – Patrick Depailler, French Grand Prix driver was killed in a crash at Hockenheim during a private test session.
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
The Chains of St. Peter. Greater Double.
Commemoration of the Holy Machabees, Martyrs.
Commemoration of the Holy Machabees, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church)
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Æthelwold of Winchester
Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder
Eusebius of Vercelli
Exuperius of Bayeux
Felix of Girona
Peter Apostle in Chains
The Holy Maccabees
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Æthelwold of Winchester
Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder
Eusebius of Vercelli
Exuperius of Bayeux
Felix of Girona
Peter Apostle in Chains
The Holy Maccabees
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of Jesus Christ.
The Feast to the All-Merciful Saviour and the Most Holy Mother of God
(especially in churches dedicated to Christ).
Beginning of the Dormition Fast.
Holy Seven Maccabees:
Martyrs: Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusabonus, Alimus, Marcellus,
their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar (166 BC)
Holy Nine Martyrs of Perge in Pamphylia:
Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Minsitheus,
Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus, Eucleus (3rd century)
Martyr Papas the New.
Martyr Eleazar.
Martyr Cyricus, by beheading.
Martyr Theodore, by the sword.
Martyr Polyeuctus, by being buried alive in manure.
Venerable Martyr Elessa of Kythira (375)
Saint Timothy of Proconnesus, Wonderworker, Archbishop of Proconnesus (6th century)
Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England.
Child-martyr Justin, venerated in Louvre near Paris in France (c. 290)
Saint Nemesius, a saint venerated near Lisieux in France.
Saint Leus of Viguenza, a priest whose relics were honoured in Viguenza in Italy (4th century)
Saint Verus, Bishop of Vienne; he attended the Council of Arles in 314 (c. 314)
Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop (371)
Saint Exuperius of Bayeux, first Bishop of Bayeux in France, he is honoured in Corbeil (405)
Saint Ríoch, a nephew of St. Patrick, early Irish Christian missionary
and Abbot of Innisboffin in Ireland (c. 490)
Saint Almedha (Eluned, Eled, Elevetha), (5th century)
suffered martyrdom on a hill near Brecon in Wales
Saint Severus, a priest of noble family, famous for his charity (c. 500)
honoured from time immemorial in the village that bears his name, St Sever de Rustan
Saints Friard (Friardus of Vindumitta), and Secundel (Secundellus) deacon (c. 577)
hermits on the Isle of Vindomitte near Nantes in Gaul
Virgin-martyr Sidwell of Exeter (Sativola) (6th century)
Saint Kenneth (Cenydd, Kined), a hermit who made his cell among the rocks
in the Gower peninsula in Wales at a place later called Llangenydd after him (6th century)
Saint Peregrinus, a pilgrim from Ireland who returning from a pilgrimage
to the Holy Land settled as a hermit near Modena in Italy (643)
Saint Jonatus, a monk at Elnone in Belgium; Abbot of Marchiennes (c. 643-652)
and then of Elnone Abbey (c. 652-659)
Saint Mary the Consoler, sister of St Anno, Bishop of Verona in Italy (8th century)
Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester (984)
Saint Davyd Sviatoslavich, Prince of Chernigov (1097–1123)
New Hieromartyr Basil, Archbishop of Chernigov (1918)
New Hieromartyr Demetrius Pavsky, Priest (1937)
Baptism of Rus' (1 August 988)
Finding of the relics (1882) of Bishop Nestor (Zakkis) of the Aleutians and Alaska (1882)
Repose of Abbess Alexia of Nizhni-Novgorod (1940)
Uncovering of the relics (1995) of the Venerable Sophia of Suzdal (1542)
Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of Jesus Christ.
The Feast to the All-Merciful Saviour and the Most Holy Mother of God
(especially in churches dedicated to Christ).
Beginning of the Dormition Fast.
Holy Seven Maccabees:
Martyrs: Abimus, Antoninus, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusabonus, Alimus, Marcellus,
their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar (166 BC)
Holy Nine Martyrs of Perge in Pamphylia:
Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Minsitheus,
Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus, Eucleus (3rd century)
Martyr Papas the New.
Martyr Eleazar.
Martyr Cyricus, by beheading.
Martyr Theodore, by the sword.
Martyr Polyeuctus, by being buried alive in manure.
Venerable Martyr Elessa of Kythira (375)
Saint Timothy of Proconnesus, Wonderworker, Archbishop of Proconnesus (6th century)
Martyrs Menas, Menais, and others of England.
Child-martyr Justin, venerated in Louvre near Paris in France (c. 290)
Saint Nemesius, a saint venerated near Lisieux in France.
Saint Leus of Viguenza, a priest whose relics were honoured in Viguenza in Italy (4th century)
Saint Verus, Bishop of Vienne; he attended the Council of Arles in 314 (c. 314)
Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop (371)
Saint Exuperius of Bayeux, first Bishop of Bayeux in France, he is honoured in Corbeil (405)
Saint Ríoch, a nephew of St. Patrick, early Irish Christian missionary
and Abbot of Innisboffin in Ireland (c. 490)
Saint Almedha (Eluned, Eled, Elevetha), (5th century)
suffered martyrdom on a hill near Brecon in Wales
Saint Severus, a priest of noble family, famous for his charity (c. 500)
honoured from time immemorial in the village that bears his name, St Sever de Rustan
Saints Friard (Friardus of Vindumitta), and Secundel (Secundellus) deacon (c. 577)
hermits on the Isle of Vindomitte near Nantes in Gaul
Virgin-martyr Sidwell of Exeter (Sativola) (6th century)
Saint Kenneth (Cenydd, Kined), a hermit who made his cell among the rocks
in the Gower peninsula in Wales at a place later called Llangenydd after him (6th century)
Saint Peregrinus, a pilgrim from Ireland who returning from a pilgrimage
to the Holy Land settled as a hermit near Modena in Italy (643)
Saint Jonatus, a monk at Elnone in Belgium; Abbot of Marchiennes (c. 643-652)
and then of Elnone Abbey (c. 652-659)
Saint Mary the Consoler, sister of St Anno, Bishop of Verona in Italy (8th century)
Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester (984)
Saint Davyd Sviatoslavich, Prince of Chernigov (1097–1123)
New Hieromartyr Basil, Archbishop of Chernigov (1918)
New Hieromartyr Demetrius Pavsky, Priest (1937)
Baptism of Rus' (1 August 988)
Finding of the relics (1882) of Bishop Nestor (Zakkis) of the Aleutians and Alaska (1882)
Repose of Abbess Alexia of Nizhni-Novgorod (1940)
Uncovering of the relics (1995) of the Venerable Sophia of Suzdal (1542)
Coptic Orthodox
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