August 1 in History

starts   2022

Heavy fighting between Russia and Ukraine over Bakhmut

  1961

Dahomey annexes Fort Ajudá

  1960

Dahomey gains independence from France

  1953

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland formed

ends   1944

US captures Tinian

starts   1944

Warsaw uprising against Germany

starts   1927

Nanchang Uprising

  1918

British send troops to Transcaspian

  1914

Germany mobilizes & declares war on Russia

  1914

France mobilizes against Germany

ends   1907

French assume control over Sultanate of Agadez

starts   1901

French pursue Fadl-Allah into Northern Nigeria*

starts   1894

First Sino-Japanese War

  1894

War declared between Japan and China

  1876

Colorado becomes US state

ends   1868

Paraguayan offensive in Mato Grosso

  1861

Confederate Territory of Arizona created

  1834

Slavery ends in British Empire

starts   1808

Spanish blockade French in Barcelona

starts   1808

British forces under Wellesley arrive in Portugal

starts   451

Huns raid Eastern Roman Danube provinces*

starts   432

St Patrick spreads Christianity in Ireland*

ends   271

Zenobia invades Asia Minor, halted in Bithynia*

ends   270

Claudius Gothicus rules Roman Empire*

ends   270

Claudius dies of plague while moving on Hasdingi*

  269

Victorinus overthrows Marius in Gaul*

ends   228

Sasanians defeat Vologases VI, ending Parthian Empire*

  81

Agricola intervenes in Hibernia?*

  69

Danube legions declare for Vespasian*

  48

Alpes Poeninae separated from Raetia*