WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. AUGUST
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Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. (1. August 30. BC)

Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis. (1. August 69)

Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. (1. August 527)

Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). (1. August 607)

Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army. (1. August 902)

Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin (1. August 1192)

Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade. (1. August 1203)

The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter. (1. August 1291)

Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela. (1. August 1498)

The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England. (1. August 1620)

Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár. (1. August 1664)

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. (1. August 1759)

British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. (1. August 1774)

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. (1. August 1798)

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. (1. August 1800)

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. (1. August 1801)

A new London Bridge opens. (1. August 1831)

Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force. (1. August 1834)

Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated. (1. August 1838)

Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated. (1. August 1840)