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Battle of Trans-la-Forêt

The Battle of Trans-la-Forêt was fought on 1 August 939 between the occupying Vikings and the Bretons, led by a joint army of Alan II, Hugh II of Maine, and Judicael Berengar.

Battle of Mirebeau

The Battle of Mirebeau was a battle in 1202 between the House of Lusignan-Breton alliance and the Kingdom of England. King John of England his Baron forces, mercenaries and Baron Knight (Former Knights Templar, Sir Jordan Taylor, of Effingham Village, Surrey) defeated the Lusignan army in a surprise attack, resulting in the capture of the rebel leadership.

France

Siege of Constantinople (1203)

The siege of Constantinople in 1203 was a crucial episode of the Fourth Crusade, marking the beginning of a series of events that would ultimately lead to the fall of the Byzantine capital. The crusaders, diverted from their original mission to reclaim Jerusalem, found themselves in Constantinople, in support of the deposed emperor Isaac II Angelos and his son Alexios IV Angelos.

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Siege of Carlisle (1315)

The siege of Carlisle took place from 22 July to 1 August 1315, during the First War of Scottish Independence, near the town of Carlisle, in Cumbria, England. Following victory at Bannockburn in 1314, Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, launched a series of raids into Northern England. Many areas along the Anglo-Scottish border were claimed by both Scotland and England, including Carlisle, which controlled access to North-West England.

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United Kingdom

Battle of Kremmen Levee (1332)

Battle of Kremmer Levee was a final battle of Brandenburg–Pomeranian War, fought on 1 August 1332, on the Kremmer Levee, near the village of Kremmen. It was fought by forces of Pomerania-Stettin, Werle, and County of Schwerin, against the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Brandenburg, Germany

Battle of Malatya

Battle of Malatya (Persian: نبرد مالاتیا Azerbaijani: Malatya döyüşü) (Turkish:Malatya savaşı) On August 1, 1473, a battle took place between the Aq Qoyunlu and the Ottomans in Malatya. As a result of the tactics chosen by Uzun Hasan, the Aq Qoyunlu cavalry deceived the Ottoman army and retreated to the left bank of the Euphrates, where Khassa Murad was defeated.

Raid on Tiahynka

The Raid on Tiahynka was a naval engagement that took place in August 1492 between the fleet of the Ottoman Empire and the Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Bohdan Glynsky near the fortress of Tiahyn (now the village of Tiahynka, Ukraine) and ended in a Cossack success.

Ukraine

Siege of Smolensk (1514)

The siege of Smolensk of 1514 took place during the fourth Muscovite–Lithuanian War (1512–1520). The growing and strengthening Grand Duchy of Moscow clashed with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania over the territories of the former Rus'. The tension resulted in a series of wars starting in 1492. When war broke out again in November 1512, Moscow's main objective was to capture Smolensk, an important fortress and trade center that had been part of Lithuania since 1404.

Russia

Siege of Oldenzaal (1626)

The siege of Oldenzaal took place in the Spanish held town of Oldenzaal in the Twente region from July 23 to August 1, 1626, during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War. After an eight-day siege led by Ernest Casimir the city surrendered.

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Netherlands

Booth's Uprising

Booth's Uprising, August 1659, was an attempt to restore Charles II of England. Named after George Booth, it took place during the political turmoil that followed the resignation of Richard Cromwell as head of The Protectorate. Originally part of a wider revolt organised by John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt, only the portion centred on North West England was successful, with other risings either failing to take place, or being quickly suppressed.

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United Kingdom

Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664)

The Battle of Saint Gotthard (Hungarian: Szentgotthárd; Turkish: Saint Gotthard Muharebesi) was fought on August 1, 1664 as part of the Austro-Turkish War (1663-1664), between an Habsburg army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, Jean de Coligny-Saligny, Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, Prince Leopold of Baden, Georg Friedrich of Waldeck and an Ottoman army under the command of Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed. The battle took place near Szentgotthárd and Mogersdorf in Western Hungary, near the present-day Austro-Hungarian border and is known as the Battle of Mogersdorf in Austria. The Turks were militarily defeated but were able to negotiate the Peace of Vasvár, which was highly favorable to them.

Szentgotthárd, Hungary · Vas County, Hungary

Battle of Altenheim

The Battle of Altenheim took place on 1 August 1675 during the 1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War near Altenheim, in modern Baden-Württemberg. It was fought by a French army of 20,000, jointly commanded by the Marquis de Vaubrun and the Comte de Lorges, and an Imperial Army of 30,000 under Raimondo Montecuccoli. After two months of manoeuvring, the previous French commander, Marshall Turenne, had managed to create an opportunity to attack the Imperial army.

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Siege of Derry

The siege of Derry in 1689 was the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland. The siege was preceded by an attempt against the town by Jacobite forces on 7 December 1688 that was foiled when 13 apprentices shut the gates. Closing the gates was an act of rebellion against James II.

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Ireland

Battle of Minden

The Battle of Minden was a major engagement during the Seven Years' War, fought on 1 August 1759. An Allied army, under the overall command of Prussian Field Marshal Ferdinand of Brunswick, defeated a Franco-Saxon army commanded by Marshal of France, Marquis de Contades. Two years previously, the French had launched a successful invasion of Hanover and attempted to impose an unpopular peace treaty upon the Allied nations of Britain, Hanover and Prussia.

Battle of Kagul

The Battle of Kagul (Russian: Сражение при Кагуле, Turkish language:Kartal Ovasi Muharebesi) was the most important land battle of the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 and one of the largest battles of the 18th century. It was fought on 1 August 1770 (21 July at Julian Calendar), just a fortnight after the Russian victory at Larga. Under contribution of Pyotr Melissino, the Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev arranged his army of 40,000 soldiers in solid squares and surprisingly chose to go on the offensive against the allied forces of the Khanate of Crimea and the Ottoman Empire, which consisted of 30,000 Ottoman infantry and 45,000 Ottoman cavalry.

Cahul, Moldova

Battle of Rocky Mount

The Battle of Rocky Mount took place on August 1, 1780, as part of the American Revolutionary War. 600 Loyalists commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Turnbull occupying an outpost in northern South Carolina withstood an attack by 300 American Patriots led by Colonel Thomas Sumter.

Battle of Focșani

The Battle of Focșani (also Battle of Fokschani or Battle of Focsani; Hungarian: Foksányi csata) took place during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) on 1 August 1789 (Old Style 21 July) between the Ottoman Empire and the alliance of the Russian Empire and the Habsburg monarchy near Focșani, Moldavia (now in Romania). The Russians were led by Alexander Suvorov, the Austrians by Prince Josias of Coburg, and the Ottomans by Grand Vizier Koca Yusuf Pasha.

Romania

Battle of the Baztan Valley

The Battle of the Baztan Valley was fought between 23 July and 1 August 1794 during the French Revolutionary War, between a French force from the Army of the Western Pyrenees commanded by Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey and the Spanish forces led by Don Ventura Caro. The French army drove the Spanish from their defenses, then followed the valley northward to the Atlantic coast.

Spain

Siege of Mantua (1796–1797)

The siege of Mantua lasted from 4 June 1796 to 2 February 1797 with a short break where French forces under the overall command of Napoleon Bonaparte besieged and blockaded a large Austrian garrison at Mantua for many months until it surrendered. The siege was the focal point of the Italian Campaign of 1796-1797, lasting the vast majority of the campaign and being the hinge point that would determine which side would control Northern Italy.

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Italy

Battle of the Nile

The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; French: Bataille d'Aboukir) was fought between the Royal Navy and the French Navy at Aboukir Bay in Egypt between 1 and 3 August 1798. It was the climax of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798, which had started three months earlier after a large French fleet sailed from Toulon to Alexandria carrying an expeditionary force under Napoleon.

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Action of 1 August 1801

The Action of 1 August 1801 was a single-ship action of the First Barbary War fought between the American schooner USS Enterprise and the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli off the coast of modern-day Libya. As part of Commodore Richard Dale's Mediterranean Squadron, Enterprise had been deployed with the American force blockading the Vilayet of Tripoli. Enterprise, under the command of Lieutenant Andrew Sterett, had been sent by Commodore Dale to gather supplies at Malta. While cruising towards Malta, Enterprise engaged Tripoli, commanded by Admiral Rais Mahomet Rous. Tripoli put up a stubborn fight, and the engagement lasted for three hours before the polacca was finally captured by the Americans.

Malta · Tripoli, Libya, Libya

Battle of Bratačić

Battle of Bratačić (Serbian: Битка код Братачића) took place on 1 August 1806 between Serb rebel leader Karađorđe's troops against an Ottoman Bosnian troops under Hadži-beg of Srebrenica. The battle was part of the First Serbian Uprising and ended with the victory of the Serbs.

1808 Kentucky gubernatorial election

The 1808 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1808, to elect the governor of Kentucky. Charles Scott, a veteran of the French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, and the Northwest Indian War, defeated attorneys John Allen and Green Clay. All three principal candidates were associated with the Democratic-Republican Party, which dominated Kentucky politics; consequently, the campaign turned principally on the candidates' personal reputations, military records, regional support, and political alliances rather than a contest between organized parties.

Battle of Ölper (1809)

The Battle of Ölper took place on 1 August 1809 in Ölper, currently a district of the town of Brunswick, as part of the War of the Fifth Coalition. It pitched troops of the Kingdom of Westphalia against the Black Brunswickers under Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, but ended in a tactical draw.

Battle of Klyastitsy

The Battle of Klyastitsy, also called the Battle of Yakubovo or the Battle of Oboyarshchina, was a series of military engagements that took place on 30 July [O.S. 18 July] 1812 – 1 August [O.S. 20 July] 1812 near the village of Klyastitsy on the road between Polotsk and Sebezh. In this battle, the Russian vanguard under the command of General Yakov Kulnev and the whole corps of Gen.

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Battle of Sorauren

The Battle of Sorauren was part of a series of engagements in late July 1813 called the Battle of the Pyrenees in which a combined British, Portuguese, and Spanish force under Sir Arthur Wellesley held off Marshal Soult's French forces attempting to relieve Pamplona. In the battle, the French attacked up the slope of the Oricain Ridge and failed.

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Spain

Battle of Tistedalen

The Battle of Tistedalen was a series of skirmishes in the Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814, at Tistedalen, Norway.

Norway

Brazilian War of Independence

The Brazilian War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência do Brasil) was an armed conflict that led to the separation of Brazil from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. The war was fought across various regions of Brazil, including Bahia, Maranhão, Pará, Piauí, and Cisplatina (present-day Uruguay), with naval battles occurring along the Atlantic coast.

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Brazil · Uruguay

1825 Indiana gubernatorial election

The 1825 Indiana gubernatorial election took place on August 1, 1825, under the provisions of the Constitution of Indiana. It was the fourth gubernatorial election in the State of Indiana. James B. Ray, the incumbent governor following the resignation of William Hendricks, was reelected to a full term, defeating Isaac Blackford, the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court.

Indiana, United States

1825 Mississippi gubernatorial election

The 1825 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1825, to elect the governor of Mississippi. David Holmes, a Democratic-Republican and first governor of Mississippi won against Cowles Mead, another Democratic Republican.

1831 Alabama gubernatorial election

The 1831 Alabama gubernatorial election was an election held on August 1, 1831, to elect the governor of Alabama. Jacksonian candidate John Gayle beat the incumbent Jacksonian governor Samuel B. Moore and National Republican candidate Nicholas Davis with 55.01% of the vote.

Alabama, United States

1831 Indiana gubernatorial election

The 1831 Indiana gubernatorial election took place on August 1, 1831, under the provisions of the Constitution of Indiana. It was the sixth gubernatorial election in the State of Indiana. Noah Noble, a former state representative from Franklin County serving since 1830 as one of the commissioners of the Michigan Road, defeated state Representative James G. Read and outgoing Lieutenant Governor Milton Stapp.

Indiana, United States

1831 Mississippi gubernatorial election

The 1831 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1831, to elect the governor of Mississippi. Abram M. Scott, a National Republican won against Democrats Hiram G. Runnels and Charles Lynch. Two other candidates, Wiley P. Harris and Adam Gordon, received scattered votes.

Construction begins on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull

The Wilberforce Monument is a monument honouring English politician and abolitionist William Wilberforce in Kingston Upon Hull, England. The ashlar structure consists of a Doric column topped by a statue of Wilberforce. Construction on the monument began in 1834 and was completed the following year. In 2011, it was designated a Grade II listed structure.

1836 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election

The 1836 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1836, in order to elect the lieutenant governor of Missouri. Democratic nominee and incumbent member of the Missouri Senate Franklin Cannon defeated Whig nominee James Jones.

Missouri, United States

1836 Arkansas gubernatorial election

The 1836 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1836, in order to elect the first governor upon Arkansas acquiring statehood on June 15, 1836. Democratic nominee James S. Conway defeated Whig nominee Absalom Fowler.

Arkansas, United States

1836 Missouri gubernatorial election

The 1836 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1836. Sitting Lt. Governor Lilburn Boggs, was elected over sitting Congressman (and former Lt. Governor) William Henry Ashley.

1839 Tennessee gubernatorial election

The 1839 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1839, to elect the Governor of Tennessee. Incumbent Whig Governor Newton Cannon lost re-election to a third term against Democratic nominee and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives James K. Polk.

1842 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election

The 1842 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1842, in order to elect the lieutenant governor of Illinois. Democratic nominee and former member of the Illinois Senate John Moore defeated Whig nominee William H. Henderson and Liberty nominee Fredrick H. Collins.

Illinois, United States

1842–43 United States House of Representatives elections

The 1842–43 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 1, 1842, and November 8, 1843. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 28th United States Congress convened on December 4, 1843. The exception was Maryland, which held theirs so late that they ran into February 1844.

Arkansas, United States · Delaware, United States

1842 Illinois gubernatorial election

The 1842 Illinois gubernatorial election was the seventh quadrennial election for this office. Democrat Thomas Ford, who replaced the original Democratic nominee Adam W. Snyder following his death, defeated former Whig governor Joseph Duncan, who was running for a nonconsecutive second term.

United States

1844 North Carolina gubernatorial election

The 1844 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1844, in order to elect the Governor of North Carolina. Whig nominee and former United States Senator from North Carolina William Alexander Graham defeated Democratic nominee Michael Hoke.

North Carolina, United States

1846 French legislative election

Legislative elections were held in France on 1 August 1846. Only citizens paying taxes were eligible to vote.

France

1850 North Carolina gubernatorial election

The 1850 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1850, in order to elect the governor of North Carolina. Democratic nominee and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 3rd district David Settle Reid defeated incumbent Whig governor Charles Manly in a rematch of the previous election.

North Carolina, United States

Texas gubernatorial election, 1853

The 1853 Texas gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1853 to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Governor Peter Hansborough Bell did not run for a third term. The election was won by Elisha M. Pease, who received 37% of the vote.

Texas, United States

1853 Alabama gubernatorial election

The 1853 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 1, 1853, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Democrat John A. Winston won his first term. Henry W. Collier did not run because he was term-limited.

Texas gubernatorial election, 1859

The 1859 Texas gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1859 to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Democratic Governor Hardin Richard Runnels was running for reelection, but was defeated by Sam Houston, who received 57% of the vote.

Texas, United States

1859 Alabama gubernatorial election

The 1859 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 1, 1859, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Democrat Andrew B. Moore won his second term as governor.

1859 Kentucky gubernatorial election

The 1859 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1859. Democratic nominee Beriah Magoffin defeated Opposition Party candidate Joshua Fry Bell with 53.10% of the vote.

At the suggestion of Senator J. V. Snellman and the order of Emperor Alexander II, full rights are promised to the Finnish language by a language regulation in the Grand Duchy of Finland

Johan Vilhelm Snellman (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjuːhɑn ˈvilːhelm ˈsnelːmɑn] ; 12 May 1806 – 4 July 1881) was a Finland-Swedish philosopher, journalist and statesman, and one of the leading figures of Fennoman nationalism in 19th-century Finland. A central exponent of Hegelian philosophy in the Nordic countries, he is regarded as one of the most important 'awakeners' of Finnish national identity, alongside Elias Lönnrot and J. L.

Battle of Folck's Mill

The Battle of Folck's Mill, also known as the Battle of Cumberland, was a small cavalry engagement, fought August 1, 1864, in northern Maryland, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War. After burning Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on July 30, cavalry under Confederate generals John McCausland and Bradley T. Johnson set out for western Maryland towards Cumberland, to disrupt traffic on the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad and to demand a ransom from the town or torch it as well. At 3 p.m. on August 1, the Confederates arrived at Folck's Mill, east of Cumberland.

Allegany County, Maryland, United States

1867 Tennessee gubernatorial election

The 1867 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1867, to elect the governor of Tennessee. Incumbent Republican governor Parson Brownlow defeated Conservative nominee Emerson Etheridge with 76.85% of the vote.

Tennessee, United States

Hayfield Fight

The Hayfield Fight on August 1, 1867 was an engagement of Red Cloud's War near Fort C. F. Smith, Montana, between 21 soldiers of the U.S. Army, a hay-cutting crew of nine civilians, and several hundred Native Americans, mostly Cheyenne and Arapaho, with some Lakota Sioux. Armed with newly issued breechloading Springfield Model 1866 rifles, the heavily outnumbered soldiers held off the native warriors and inflicted casualties.

United States

1872 North Carolina gubernatorial election

The 1872 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1872. Incumbent Republican Tod Robinson Caldwell, who defeated Thomas Settle and Oliver H. Dockery for the Republican nomination, defeated Conservative Party (Democratic) nominee Augustus Summerfield Merrimon, who defeated James Madison Leach and Daniel Moreau Barringer for the Democratic nomination, with 50.49% of the vote.

North Carolina, United States

1887 Kentucky gubernatorial election

The 1887 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on August 1, 1887. Democratic nominee Simon Bolivar Buckner defeated Republican nominee William O'Connell Bradley with 50.70% of the vote.

1892 Alabama gubernatorial election

The 1892 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 1, 1892, in order to elect the governor of Alabama.

Kucheng massacre

The Kucheng massacre (Chinese: 古田敎案; Pinyin: Gǔtián Jiào'àn; Foochow Romanized: Kŭ-chèng Gáu-áng) was a massacre of Western Christians that took place at Gutian (at that time known in the west as Kucheng), Fujian, China on August 1, 1895. At dawn of that day, a Luoist fasting folk religious group attacked British missionaries who were then taking summer holidays at Gutian Huashan, killing eleven people and destroying two houses.

1898 Alabama gubernatorial election

The 1898 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 1, 1898, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Joseph F. Johnston ran for a second term in office.

Alabama, United States

Siege of Port Arthur

The Siege of Port Arthur (Japanese: 旅順攻囲戦, Ryojun Kōisen; Russian: Оборона Порт-Артура, Oborona Port-Artura, August 1, 1904 – January 2, 1905), the deep-water port and Russian naval base at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria, was the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. Port Arthur was widely regarded as one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world at the time. However, during the First Sino-Japanese War, General Nogi Maresuke had taken the city from the forces of Qing China in only a few days.

Lüshunkou, Dalian, People's Republic of China

Battle of Namdaemun

The Battle of Namdaemun (Korean: 남대문 전투), also known as the Battle of the South Great Gate, was a rebellion by the Korean army against Japanese forces in Korea as a reaction to the disbandment of the Korean army following the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907. It took place at the Namdaemun Gate in Seoul on August 1, 1907.

Seoul, South Korea

1908 Haggerston by-election

The 1908 Haggerston by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 1 August 1908. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

United Kingdom

Eastern Front (World War I)

The Eastern Front, or Eastern Theater, of World War I was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on one side and Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany on the other. It ranged from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, involved most of Eastern Europe, and stretched deep into Central Europe.

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World War I: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was an empire that extended across northern Eurasia from 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in 1917, forming the final era of Tsarist Russia and the wider Russian monarchy. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about 22,800,000 km2 (8,800,000 sq mi), roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the third-largest empire in history, behind only the British and Mongol empires.

Battle of Mărăști

The Battle of Mărăști (Romanian: Bătălia de la Mărăști) was one of the main battles to take place on Romanian soil in World War I. It was fought between 22 July and 1 August 1917, and was an offensive operation of the Romanian and Russian armies intended to encircle and destroy the German 9th Army.

Nanchang Uprising

The Nanchang Uprising of August 1927 was the point at which conflict between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party of China (Kuomintang) became an outright rebellion. This began the Chinese Civil War. It was initiated by the Communists in response to the massacre of their party comrades in Shanghai by the Kuomintang four months before. The Kuomintang (KMT) left wing established a "Revolutionary Committee" at Nanchang to plant the spark that was expected to ignite a widespread peasant uprising. Deng Yanda, Song Qingling and Zhang Fakui (listed nominally, who later crushed the uprising) were among the political leaders. Military forces in Nanchang under the leadership of He Long and Zhou Enlai rebelled in an attempt to seize control of the city after the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist alliance. Other important leaders in this event were Zhu De, Ye Ting, and Liu Bocheng. Communist forces successfully occupied Nanchang and escaped from the siege of Kuomintang forces by 5 August, withdrawing to the Jinggang Mountains of western Jiangxi. 1 August 1927 was later regarded as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the first action fought against the Kuomintang and the National Revolutionary Army (NRA).

Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was fought between the government of the Republic of China (ROC), led by the Kuomintang (KMT), and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermittently from 1 August 1927 until Communist victory that led to the Kuomintang's retreat to Taiwan on 7 December 1949. The war is generally divided into two phases with an interlude.

August 1 Declaration

August 1 Declaration (Chinese: 八一宣言; pinyin: bā yī xuānyán) is a declaration made by the Chinese Communist Party under the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern. On August 1, 1935, during the Long March, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made public the "Message to all Compatriots on Resistance against Japanese and National Salvation" (Chinese: 為抗日救國告全體同胞書), – a well-publicized declaration calling upon the nation to organize a National United Front for resistance against Japan.

On August 1, 1935, during the Long March, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made public the "Message to all Compatriots on Resistance against Japanese and National Salvation" (Chinese: 為抗日救國告全體同胞書), – a well-publicized declaration calling upon the nation to organize a National United Front for resistance against Japan.

The Olympics open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler

The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (Spiele der XI. Olympiade) and branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the right to host the Games over Barcelona at the 29th IOC Session in 1931.

Convoy OG 69

Convoy OG 69 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 69th of the numbered OG convoys Outbound from the British Isles to Gibraltar. The convoy departed Liverpool on 20 July 1941 and was found on 25 July by Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors of Kampfgeschwader 40. Nine ships were sunk by submarine attacks continuing through 30 July.

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Operation Tidal Wave

Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya and Southern Italy on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943, during World War II. It was a strategic bombing mission and part of the "oil campaign" to deny petroleum-based fuel to the Axis. The mission resulted in "no curtailment of overall product output". This mission was one of the costliest for the USAAF in the European Theater, with 53 aircraft and 660 aircrewmen lost.

Ploiești, Romania

Kara Sea U-boat campaign

The Kara Sea U-boat campaign was a German submarine operation in the Arctic waters of the Kara Sea during the Second World War. The plan was to repeat Operation Wunderland (16–30 August 1942) in Operation Husar. The Deutschland-class cruiser Lützow was to sortie into the Kara Sea with U-boats in support, to attack Soviet ships.

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Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The Uprising was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces. However, the Soviet advance stopped short, enabling the Germans to regroup and demolish the city while defeating the Polish resistance, which fought for 63 days with little outside support. The Uprising was the largest single military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II.

Warsaw, Poland

Operation Draufgänger

The Operation Draufgänger (German for "daredevil"; Serbian: Операција Драуфгенгер/Operacija Draufgenger) was a German Wehrmacht military operation against the Yugoslav Partisans at the Montenegrin-Serbian border area, aimed at breaking the Partisan foothold on the Lim river which was a potential penetration point into Serbia. In turn, it was a Partisan counter-operation, known as the Andrijevica Operation (Serbian: Андријевичка операција/Andrijevačka operacija).

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Albania

Battle of Tinian

The Battle of Tinian was part of the Pacific campaign of World War II. It was fought between the United States and Japan on the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands from 24 July until 1 August 1944. The battle saw napalm used for the first time. At the Cairo Conference in December 1943, the US and British Combined Chiefs of Staff endorsed a two-pronged attack through the Central Pacific and Southwest Pacific Areas.

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Northern Mariana Islands

Bombing of Nagaoka

The bombing of Nagaoka (長岡空襲, Nagaoka kūshū) took place on the night of 1 August 1945, as part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers in the Japan home islands during the closing stages of the Pacific War in 1945. Between 65.5 and 80 percent of the urban area of Nagaoka was destroyed during the war.

Japan

Establishment of Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and institutes. Established in 1946, ANU is the only university to have been created by the Parliament of Australia.

Battle of Andong

The Battle of Andong was a fight between North Korean and South Korean units in late July 1950. It was an early maneuver of the Korean War. The Korean People's Army (KPA) 12th Infantry Division attempted to advance through Andong on its way south to Pusan, but was opposed by the Republic of Korea Army (ROK) 8th and Capital Division.

This entry records the event's end date, as given in the source infobox.

South Korea

Guam Organic Act of 1950

The Guam Organic Act of 1950 (formally the Organic Act of Guam), (48 U.S.C. § 1421 et seq., Pub. L. 81–630, H.R. 7273, 64 Stat. 384, enacted August 1, 1950) is a United States federal law that redesignated the island of Guam as an unincorporated territory of the United States, established executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and transferred federal jurisdiction from the United States Navy to the United States Department of the Interior.

This entry records the signing, as dated in the source infobox.

Establishment of August First Film Studio

August First Film Studio, or Bayi Film Studio (Chinese: 八一电影制片厂; pinyin: Bāyī diànyǐng zhì piàn chǎng), is the only military film studio in China. Founded on August 1, 1952, it is a comprehensive film studio with the production capacity of feature films, battlefield documentaries, military education films, news documentaries, national defense scientific research films, TV dramas and other films.

Monument to the People's Heroes

The Monument to the People's Heroes (Chinese: 人民英雄纪念碑; pinyin: Rénmín Yīngxióng Jìniànbēi) is a ten-story obelisk that was erected as a national monument of China to the martyrs of revolutionary struggle during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is located in the southern part of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in front of the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.

On August 1, 1952, the construction of the Monument to the People's Heroes officially started.

Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed the name of the museum, and on August 1, 1960, officially opened to the public on the Armed Forces Day

The Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution is the national military museum of China, located in the district of Haidian in Beijing. The collection mainly focuses on the military history of the People's Liberation Army, ancient and modern Chinese military history, and world military history.

18th Locarno Film Festival

The 18th Locarno Film Festival was held from 21 July to 1 August 1965 in Locarno, Switzerland. No Hollywood films were shown at the festival this year, though American independent film Who's Crazy? was screened. It featured actors from the New York-based Living Theatre troupe when they were in Belgium. Some even hitchhiked in to be at the festival in Switzerland.

This entry records the closing, as dated in the source infobox.

Switzerland

University of Texas tower shooting

The University of Texas tower shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public, both within the Main Building tower and from the tower's observation deck.

1966 Nigerian counter-coup

The 1966 Nigerian counter-coup (also known as the "July Rematch") was the second of many military coups in Nigeria. It was masterminded by Lt. Colonel Murtala Muhammed and many other northern military officers. The coup began as a mutiny at roughly midnight of 28 July 1966 and was a reaction to the killings of Northern politicians and officers by some soldiers on 15 January 1966 (see 1966 Nigerian coup d'état).

This entry records the event's end date, as given in the source infobox.

Nigeria

1967 Opium War

The 1967 Opium War took place in northwestern Laos between February and August 1967; actual fighting took place from 29 July to 1 August 1967. A mule train, led by Burmese militia, carrying 16 tons of opium crossed into Laos to Ban Khwan, where they were attacked by rival drug smugglers from the Chinese Nationalists' Third and Fifth Armies.

This entry records the event's end date, as given in the source infobox.

The coronation of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei, is held

Hassanal Bolkiah Muiz'zaddin Wad'daulah (born 15 July 1946) has reigned as the sultan of Brunei since 1967, and has also served as the prime minister of Brunei since its independence from British rule in 1984. He is among the world's few remaining absolute monarchs. The eldest son of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III and Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Damit, he is the 29th sultan to ascend to the Bruneian throne, following the abdication of his father in 1967.

The Concert for Bangladesh

The Concert for Bangladesh (or Bangla Desh, as the country's name was originally spelled) was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide and the 1970 Bhola cyclone.

New York City, United States

CARICOM, originally The Caribbean Community and Common Market, was established by the Treaty of Chaguaramas which took effect on 1 August 1973

The Caribbean Community (abbreviated as CARICOM or CC) is an intergovernmental organisation that is a political and economic union of 15 member states (14 nation-states and one dependency) and eight associated members throughout the Americas, the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean. It has the primary objective to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and coordinate foreign policy.

27th Locarno Film Festival

The 27th Locarno Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 August 1974 in Locarno, Switzerland. The festival showcased films from 17 countries. A retrospective of Swiss cinema was organized and sent by ex-artistic director Freddy Buache. One film which received considerable attention was Die Rote Pest [The Red Plague] (1938), a Swiss film that, at the time, was considered anonymously created and was theorized to be produced by ultra-conservative bankers and Nazis.

This entry records the opening, as dated in the source infobox.

Switzerland

Establishment of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), also known as TaiwanTech, is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Established in 1974, it was originally a vocational college dedicated to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The university has five campuses, with its main campus in Gongguan covering an area of approximately 10 hectares (25 acres). As of 2023, it has more than 5,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students.

1976 German Grand Prix

The 1976 German Grand Prix (formally the XXXVIII Großer Preis von Deutschland) was a Formula One motor race held at the Nürburgring on 1 August 1976. It was the scene of reigning world champion Niki Lauda's near-fatal accident, and the last Formula One race to be held on the 22.835-kilometre (14.189 mi) Nordschleife section of the track.

Buttevant Rail Disaster

The Buttevant Rail Disaster was a train crash that occurred at Buttevant Railway Station, County Cork in the Republic of Ireland, 137 miles from Heuston Station on the Dublin to Cork mainline, on 1 August 1980. At 12:45 the 10:00am Dublin (Heuston) to Cork (Kent) express train entered Buttevant station carrying some 230 bank holiday passengers. The train was diverted off the main line across a 1:8 temporary set of points into a siding. The locomotive remained upright but carriages immediately behind the engine and generator van jack-knifed and were thrown across four sets of rail line.

Ireland

33rd Locarno Film Festival

The 33rd Locarno Film Festival was held from 1 to 10 August 1980 in Locarno, Switzerland. The festival was shorter than in the past due to the reopening of the Venice film festival, which was held at a similar time. The Locarno Festival secured an increased budget with more money coming from the government and private industry, including Swiss banks and Swissair.

This entry records the opening, as dated in the source infobox.

Switzerland

Launched on August 1, 1981, the channel originally aired music videos and related music entertainment programming guided by television personalities known as video jockeys (VJs)

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel and the flagship namesake property of the MTV Entertainment Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks, division of Paramount Skydance. Launched on August 1, 1981, the channel originally aired music videos and related music entertainment programming guided by television personalities known as video jockeys (VJs).

Video Killed the Radio Star

"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley in 1979. It was recorded concurrently by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby on keyboards) for their debut studio album, English Garden, and by British new wave/synth-pop group the Buggles, which consisted of Horn and Downes (and initially Woolley).

The music video for Video Killed the Radio Star is notable as the first video ever played on MTV, when the US channel began broadcasting at 12:01 AM on 1 August 1981.

1982 Kenyan coup attempt

The 1982 Kenyan coup attempt was a failed attempt to overthrow President Daniel arap Moi's government on 1 August. Led by Kenya Air Force private Hezekiah Ochuka, the coup saw the rebels seize several air bases as well as the headquarters of state radio before they were retaken by government forces, resulting in the coup's failure.

Kenya

Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England

Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England. The remains were found on 1 August 1984 by commercial peat cutters. Lindow Man is not the only bog body to have been found in the moss; Lindow Woman was discovered the year before, and other body parts have also been recovered.

1987 FA Charity Shield

The 1987 FA Charity Shield (also known as the General Motors FA Charity Shield for sponsorship reasons) was the 65th Charity Shield, a football match contested by the holders of the Football League First Division and FA Cup. This edition was contested between Everton and Coventry City at Wembley Stadium on 1 August 1987.

1989 Bulgarian Supercup

The 1989 Bulgarian Supercup was the first Bulgarian Supercup match, a football match which was contested between the "A" professional football group champion, CSKA Sofia, and the runner-up of Bulgarian Cup, Chernomorets Burgas. The match was held on 1 August 1989 at the Chernomorets Stadium in Burgas, Bulgaria. CSKA beat Chernomorets 1–0 after to win their first Bulgarian Supercup.

Bulgaria

A plane crash in the Karabakh Range kills 46 people

The Karabakh Range or Artsakh range is a mountain range of Lesser Caucasus. It stretches in an arc from North to South-East from Tartar river to Aras River. The Hakari River (left tributary of the Aras) separates it from the Karabakh Plateau. The highest point is Mount Kirs (Azerbaijani: Böyük Kirs Dağı, Armenian: Մեծ Քիրս լեռ, lit. 'Great Kirs') (2,725 m).

1993 DFB-Supercup

The 1993 DFB-Supercup, known as the Panasonic DFB-Supercup for sponsorship purposes, was the 7th DFB-Supercup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal competitions. The match was played at the Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion in Leverkusen, and contested by league champions Werder Bremen and cup winners Bayer Leverkusen. Bremen won the match 7–6 on penalties, after a 2–2 draw, claiming their second title.

Summer Spectacular (1996)

Summer Spectacular (1996) was the fourth Summer Spectacular professional wrestling event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on August 1, 1996 at the Shiodome in Tokyo, Japan. The main event was a no ropes exploding barbed wire glass crush spider net double hell deathmatch between Mr. Pogo and the Puerto Rican Army leader Terry Funk. Funk won by knockout.

Tokyo, Japan

Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, is officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe. Issims and tribal chiefs agreed to create a self-declared government until Somalia recovered

An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, autonomous zone, autonomous entity, autonomous unit, autonomous region, autonomous subdivision, autonomous province, or autonomous territory) is a subnational administrative division or internal territory of a sovereign state that has a degree of autonomy—self-governance—under the national government. Autonomous areas are distinct from other constituent units of a federation (e.g. a state, or province) in that they possess unique powers for their given circumstances.

1999 Ulster Senior Football Championship final

The 1999 Ulster Senior Football Championship Final was the showpiece game of that year's Ulster Championship, contested by Armagh and Down and played at St Tiernach's Park, Clones on 1 August 1999. Armagh won the game by 3–12 to 0–10, thereby ending a 17-year wait for a provincial title.

1999 FA Charity Shield

The 1999 Football Association Charity Shield (also known as The One 2 One FA Charity Shield for sponsorship reasons) was the 77th FA Charity Shield, an annual English football match played between the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. The teams involved were Manchester United, who had won both the Premier League and FA Cup as part of the Treble the previous season, and Arsenal, who finished runners-up in the league.

United Kingdom

2000 DFB-Ligapokal final

The 2000 DFB-Ligapokal final decided the winner of the 2000 DFB-Ligapokal, the 4th edition of the reiterated DFB-Ligapokal, a knockout football cup competition. The match was played on 1 August 2000 at the BayArena in Leverkusen. Bayern Munich won the match 5–1 against Hertha BSC for their 4th title.

2002 DFB-Ligapokal final

The 2002 DFB-Ligapokal final decided the winner of the 2002 DFB-Ligapokal, the 6th edition of the reiterated DFB-Ligapokal, a knockout football cup competition. The match was played on 1 August 2002 at the Ruhrstadion in Bochum. Hertha BSC won the match 4–1 against Schalke 04, an exact repeat of the previous final, for their 2nd title.

55th Locarno Film Festival

The 55th Locarno Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 August 2002 in Locarno, Switzerland. Films from 30 countries were shown at the festival. The opening film was The Importance of Being Ernest directed by Oliver Parker. Shown on the Piazza Grande, the 7,000-seat open-air theater, the closing film of the festival was the world premiere of Possession directed by Neil LaBute.

This entry records the opening, as dated in the source infobox.

Switzerland

Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire

The Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire was a disastrous fire that occurred on Sunday, August 1, 2004 in Asunción, Paraguay.

Paraguay

Screen Singapore

Screen Singapore was a film festival in Singapore held from 1 August 2005 to 31 August 2005, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the independence of Singapore, to celebrate the heritage of Singaporean cinema from pre-independence days to the present. Presenting a total of 31 feature films (17 vintage ones, from 1955 to 1978, and 14 contemporary ones from 1995 to 2005), plus 15 short films (from 1996 to 2004) over an entire month, it was and has remained the largest showcase of Singaporean cinema.

This entry records the event's start date, as given in the source infobox.

Singapore

In preparation for the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland on 12 September, the line started operating on 1 August 2005

The Disneyland Resort line (Chinese: 迪士尼綫) is a rapid transit line connecting Sunny Bay to the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, coloured pink on the network diagram. It is the seventh line of the former MTR network before the merger of MTR and KCR, and the world's first metro line designed to service a Disney theme park.

2006 Baalbek hospital raid

During the 2006 Lebanon War, Operation Sharp and Smooth (Hebrew: מבצע חד וחלק), also known as the Baalbek operation, was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raid on a hospital in the city of Baalbek, which was being used as a Hezbollah headquarters, and a neighbourhood of the city.

This entry records the event's start date, as given in the source infobox.

Lebanon

60th Locarno Film Festival

The 60th Locarno Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 August 2007 in Locarno, Switzerland. There were 19 films in competition, of which, 15 were world premieres and four were international premieres. Seven of the films were from first time directors. The opening film of the festival was the anime Vexille directed by Fumihiko Sori. It was accompanied by fireworks and an opening speech from artist director Frederic Marie.

This entry records the opening, as dated in the source infobox.

Switzerland

2008 K2 disaster

The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. The series of deaths, over the course of the Friday ascent and Saturday descent, was the worst single episode in the history of K2 mountaineering.

When the line opened on August 1, 2008, it set the record for the fastest conventional train service in the world by top speed, and reduced travel time between the two largest cities in northern China from 70 to 30 minutes

The Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway (simplified Chinese: 京津城际铁路; traditional Chinese: 京津城際鐵路; pinyin: Jīng-Jīn chéngjì tiělù) is a Chinese high-speed railway that runs 117 kilometres (72.7 mi) line between Beijing and Tianjin. Designed for passenger traffic only, the Chinese government built the line to accommodate trains traveling at a maximum speed of 350 km/h (217 mph), and currently carries CRH high-speed trains running speeds up to 350 km/h (217 mph) since August 2018.

2009 Bulgarian Supercup

The 2009 Bulgarian Supercup was the seventh Bulgarian Supercup match, a football match which was contested between the 2008–09 A Professional Football Group champion, Levski Sofia, and the 2008–09 Bulgarian Cup holder, Litex Lovech. The match was held on 1 August 2009 at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria. Levski beat Litex 1–0 thanks to a second-half goal from Frenchman Cédric Bardon to win their third Bulgarian Supercup.

Bulgaria

2009 Pembroke state by-election

A by-election was held in the Tasmanian Legislative Council division of Pembroke on 1 August 2009. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member Allison Ritchie.

UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko

UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko (also known as UFC on Versus 2) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on Sunday, August 1, 2010. Originally scheduled to take place at the EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, the UFC was forced to move the event to a different venue due to low ticket sales. On June 14, 2010, the event was moved to San Diego, California to be held at the San Diego Sports Arena. The event was the second UFC event to be broadcast on Versus; the first being UFC Live: Vera vs.

California, United States · San Diego, United States

2010 Piala Indonesia final

The 2010 Piala Indonesia final was a football match that took place on 1 August 2010 at Manahan Stadium in Solo. It was the fifth final of Piala Indonesia and contested by Sriwijaya FC and Arema Indonesia. It was a third successive Piala Indonesia final for Sriwijaya, and Arema's third overall having won their last two finals in 2005 and 2006.

2010 Polish Super Cup

The 2010 Polish Super Cup was held on 1 August 2010 between the 2009–10 Ekstraklasa winners Lech Poznań and the 2009–10 Polish Cup winners Jagiellonia Białystok. Jagiellonia Białystok won the fixture 1–0, winning the trophy for the first time in their history.

Convention on Cluster Munitions

The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) is an international treaty that prohibits all use, transfer, production, and stockpiling of cluster munitions, a type of explosive weapon which scatters submunitions ("bomblets") over an area. Additionally, the convention establishes a framework to support victim assistance, clearance of contaminated sites, risk reduction education, and stockpile destruction. The convention was adopted on 30 May 2008 in Dublin, and was opened for signature on 3 December 2008 in Oslo.

This entry records the entry into force, as dated in the source infobox.

2012 ANO 2011 leadership election

A leadership election for ANO 2011 was held on 1 August 2012. Andrej Babiš was elected the first leader of the party. Babiš receive 73 votes of 76 delegates.

Czechia

2012 Suruga Bank Championship

The 2012 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2012; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2012) was the fifth edition of the Suruga Bank Championship, the club football match co-organized by the Japan Football Association, the football governing body of Japan, and CONMEBOL, the football governing body of South America, between the winners of the previous season's J.League Cup and Copa Sudamericana.

2012 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election

The 2012 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election took place in September 2012 to select a leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. The party's incumbent leader, Caroline Lucas, chose not to seek re-election. The position was won by the journalist Natalie Bennett.

This entry records the event's start date, as given in the source infobox.

65th Locarno Film Festival

The 65th Locarno Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 August 2012 in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film was the world premiere of The Sweeney directed by Nick Love. Director Souleymane Cisse was honored at the festival with a ceremony and retrospective of his work. Cisse also assisted in the Open Doors section this year, which focused on African films.

This entry records the opening, as dated in the source infobox.

Switzerland

Ynys Môn by-election, 2013

The Ynys Môn by-election 2013 is a by-election that was held for the Welsh Assembly constituency of Ynys Môn on Thursday 1 August 2013, following the resignation on 20 June 2013 of its sitting Assembly Member, Ieuan Wyn Jones. The election was the third Assembly by-election to be held since its formation in 1999, and the first for over seven years (the previous contest being at Blaenau Gwent in June 2006). Prior to the by-election, the governing Labour Party held exactly half the Assembly seats, meaning a gain for that party (who have held the equivalent seat in the House of Commons since 2001) would have given the Welsh government a two-seat majority.

Wales, United Kingdom

Juicio Final (2014)

El Juicio Final (2014) (Spanish for "The Final Justice") was a professional wrestling major show event that was produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) which took take place on August 1, 2014, in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. This was the fourteenth time that CMLL used the name "Jucio Final" for one of their major shows.

Mexico City, Mexico

Operation Barkhane

Operation Barkhane (French: Opération Barkhane) was a counterinsurgency operation that started on 1 August 2014 and formally ended on 9 November 2022. It was led by the French military against Islamist groups in Africa's Sahel region and consisted of a roughly 3,000-strong French force, which was permanently headquartered in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad.

Burkina Faso · Chad · Mali · Niger · Mauritania

World Series of Fighting 22: Palhares vs. Shields

World Series of Fighting 22: Palhares vs. Shields was a mixed martial arts event held August 1, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. This event aired on NBCSN in the U.S and on Fight Network in Canada.

Las Vegas Valley, United States · Nevada, United States

2015 Women's FA Cup final

The 2015 Women's FA Cup final was the 45th final of the Women's FA Cup, England's primary cup competition for women's football teams. The showpiece event was the 22nd to be played directly under the auspices of the Football Association (FA). The competition was rebranded to become the Women's FA Cup final, and named the SSE Women's FA Cup final for sponsorship reasons. The final was contested between Chelsea Ladies and Notts County Ladies on 1 August 2015 at Wembley Stadium in London.

London, United Kingdom

2015 DFL-Supercup

The 2015 DFL-Supercup was the sixth edition of the German Super Cup under the name DFL-Supercup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal competitions. It featured Bayern Munich, the winners of the 2014–15 Bundesliga, and VfL Wolfsburg, the winners of the 2014–15 DFB-Pokal. Bayern lost 2–0 in the previous edition, to Borussia Dortmund. The match was played on 1 August 2015.

UFC 190

UFC 190: Rousey vs. Correia was a mixed martial arts event held on August 1, 2015, at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Battle of Hasakah (2015)

The 2015 Battle of Hasakah started as an offensive launched in Hasakah Governorate during the Syrian Civil War, in which the Islamic State (IS) attempted to capture the city of Hasakah, which was divided into two areas held separately by the Syrian Armed Forces and the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG). On 17 July, YPG-led forces captured all of the roads and villages surrounding Hasakah, fully besieging the ISIL militants remaining inside of the city.

This entry records the event's end date, as given in the source infobox.

Syria

2015 Carling Black Label Cup

The 2015 Carling Black Label Cup was the fifth edition of the Carling Black Label Cup to be held. A South African beer brand, Black Label, started the "Be The Coach" where the fans had the opportunity to select the starting 11 of their desired players from the two Soweto derby arch rivals, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs, which are two of the most successful and largest soccer clubs in South Africa.

2015 Trophée des Champions

The 2015 Trophée des Champions (English: 2015 Champions Trophy) was the 20th edition of the French supercup. The match was contested by the 2014–15 Ligue 1 and Coupe de France champions Paris Saint-Germain and the runners-up of the Ligue 1, Lyon. The match was played at Saputo Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Canada

August 2017 Herat mosque attack

On August 1, 2017, two suicide bombers entered a Shi'ite mosque named "Jadwadia" in Bekrabad, Herat, Afghanistan, during an evening prayer session. After throwing explosives into the crowd, one of the two men detonated his vest. The remaining attacker continued firing on the crowd before detonating his vest as well. The attack caused 33 deaths and left 66 people injured. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Afghanistan

2017 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election

The 2017 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election was held on 1 August 2017 to choose the next Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party. The election was won by Deputy Leader and Mount Albert MP Jacinda Ardern.

Battle of Darzab (2018)

The Battle of Darzab (12 July – 1 August 2018) was a major conflict between the Taliban and the Islamic State's Khorasan Province (ISIS–K) who fought each other over control of Jowzjan Province's Darzab District in Afghanistan. Following heavy clashes, ISIS–K was defeated, with most of the group's forces in Jowzjan Province killed or captured.

This entry records the event's end date, as given in the source infobox.

Afghanistan

2018 MLS All-Star Game

The 2018 Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the 23rd edition of the annual Major League Soccer All-Star Game. It was held on August 1 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia and played against Italian club Juventus. The match was tied 1–1 after 90 minutes and was settled in a penalty shoot-out that Juventus won 5–3. Josef Martínez won MVP.

United States

2018 Sheikh Jassim Cup

The 2018 Sheikh Jassim Cup was the 40th edition of the cup competition for football teams from Qatar. It was changed from a group staged pre-season tournament featuring all Qatari Stars League sides, to a one-off match between the previous seasons Qatar Stars League winners and Emir of Qatar Cup winners.

Qatar

71st Locarno Film Festival

The 71st Locarno Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 August 2018 in Locarno, Switzerland. The opening film of the festival was the silent film, Liberty (1929) directed by Leo McCarey. The closing film of the festival was Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern's film I Feel Good. Director Jia Zhang-ke was president of the jury. Ethan Hawke attended the festival and received an excellence award.

This entry records the opening, as dated in the source infobox.

2019 Brecon and Radnorshire by-election

A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire was held on 1 August 2019 after incumbent Conservative Party MP Chris Davies was unseated by a successful recall petition following a conviction for false expenses claims. The by-election was won by Jane Dodds of the Liberal Democrats, denying Davies re-election, but the seat fell to the Conservatives at the following general election four months later.

2019 Nashville mayoral election

The 2019 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 1, 2019, to elect the mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor David Briley, who succeeded Megan Barry following her resignation and won a special election to fill the remainder of her term, ran for re-election. In the August election, Briley came in second behind city councilman John Cooper; however, no candidate took more than 50 percent of the vote, forcing a runoff between Cooper and Briley on September 12, 2019.

2019 Scottish Greens co-leadership election

The 2019 Scottish Greens co-leadership election occurred following a newly adopted constitution by the party. One article of the constitution stated that the positions of co-conveners would be abolished in favour of the newly established positions of co-leaders. It also said that at least one of the co-leaders had to be a woman.

2020 FA Cup final

The 2020 FA Cup final, known officially as the Heads Up FA Cup final, was an association football match played behind closed doors between Arsenal and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium in London, England on 1 August 2020; it was originally scheduled for 23 May, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the 139th FA Cup Final.

England, United Kingdom · London, United Kingdom

UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Shahbazyan

UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Shahbazyan (also known as UFC Fight Night 173, UFC on ESPN+ 31 and UFC Vegas 5) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 1, 2020 at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.

Nevada, United States

2020 Croatian Football Cup final

The 2020 Croatian Cup final between Rijeka and Lokomotiva was played on 1 August 2020 in Šibenik.

2020 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic election

Periodic elections for the Tasmanian Legislative Council were held on 1 August 2020. They were initially planned for 30 May; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the electoral commission delayed the date of the election until August, in anticipation for the next Legislative Council sitting date on 25 August. The two seats up for election were Huon and Rosevears. They were previously contested in 2014.

2020 Belgian Cup final

The 2020 Belgian Cup final, named Croky Cup after the sponsor, was the 65th Belgian Cup final. It was originally scheduled to take place on 22 March 2020, but was postponed to 1 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium. The match was played without supporters and saw Club Brugge play Antwerp.

2021 Leinster Senior Football Championship final

The 2021 Leinster Senior Football Championship final was played at Croke Park in Dublin on 1 August 2021. It was contested by Dublin and Kildare. Dublin won an 11th consecutive title.

Dublin, Ireland

2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup final

The 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup final was a soccer match to determine the winners of 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The match was the sixteenth final of the Gold Cup, a biennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF and one invited team to decide the champion of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The match was held at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, United States, on August 1, 2021, and was contested by hosts the United States and the defending champions Mexico.

Nevada, United States

2021 Major League Rugby final

The 2021 Major League Rugby final was the third Major League Rugby championship match, held at the conclusion of the 4th season of the rugby union club competition in North America. It was played on August 1, 2021, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, between the LA Giltinis and Rugby ATL.

2021 Trophée des Champions

The 2021 Trophée des Champions was the 26th edition of the French super cup. The match was contested by the 2020–21 Ligue 1 champions, Lille, and the 2020–21 Coupe de France winners, Paris Saint-Germain, and took place at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel on 1 August 2021. Lille won the match 1–0 for their first Trophée des Champions, ending PSG's run of eight consecutive titles.

Israel

2021 Carling Black Label Cup

The 2021 Carling Black Label Cup was the ninth edition of the Carling Black Label Cup to be held. The competition was won by Kaizer Chiefs.

Operation Mongoose Azteca

Operation Mongoose Azteca (August 1, 2022 – January 5, 2023) is the code name for a joint initiative by American and Mexican intelligence and military forces to uncover the criminal activities of the Sinaloa Cartel. This operation led to the capture of Ovidio Guzmán López (alias "El Ratón"), a son of the Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

Mexico

Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival

The Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (ゆうばり国際ファンタスティック映画祭, Yūbari kokusai fantasutikku eiga sai), also sometimes called YIFFF, is held in a resort-like environment in the small town of Yūbari on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaidō. From 1990 to 1999, the festival was known as the Yubari International Fantastic Adventure Film Festival.

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Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy New York City family, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.

PFL 8 (2025)

The PFL 8 mixed martial arts event for the 2025 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on August 1, 2025, at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. This event marked the finals of the single-elimination tournament format in the Welterweight and Featherweight divisions.

New Jersey, United States

Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival

The Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival is a film festival annually held in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, every August. It screens films with a curatorial focus on Black storytelling. In addition to films, the festival hosts panels like the Color of Conversations series and throws events such as the annual White Party, Director’s Brunch, the Black Excellence Brunch, and the Women's C-Suite lunches.

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United States