WHAT HAPPENED ON 12. AUGUST
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Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite. (12. August 30. BC)

First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade. (12. August 1099)

Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi. (12. August 1121)

Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch. (12. August 1164)

Signature of the Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia), that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time. (12. August 1323)

Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam; they are later honored in the Church. (12. August 1480)

First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets. (12. August 1499)

The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister. (12. August 1624)

Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War. (12. August 1676)

Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire. (12. August 1687)

The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. (12. August 1779)

The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two. (12. August 1793)

Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion. (12. August 1806)

French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution. (12. August 1831)

Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine. (12. August 1851)

Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos. (12. August 1877)

The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (12. August 1883)

An Armistice ends the Spanish–American War. (12. August 1898)

The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States. (12. August 1898)

World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit. (12. August 1914)