August 1 in History
1 August in History – 127 years ago

Asia Pacific 1894: First Sino-Japanese War
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All Events on 1 August
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
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