August 3 in History

Mauleon surrenders La Rochelle to Louis VIII, most devoted Poitevin town to England

Mauleon surrenders La Rochelle to Louis VIII, most devoted Poitevin town to England

Mauleon surrenders La Rochelle to Louis VIII, most devoted Poitevin town to England

Mauleon surrenders La Rochelle to Louis VIII, most devoted Poitevin town to England

Receives 12 claims to the Scottish throne at Berwick

Captures Calais after an eleven month siege

Dies during the Siege of Roxburgh

Sails south to the Canary Islands

Supported by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella. Sales from Palos with the Nina, Pinta & his flagship the Santa Maria

Sets sail under the command of Colombus across the Atlantic

Sales from Palos with the Nina, Pinta & his flagship the Santa Maria

France & Spain make peace with Charles V, Henry is now totally isolated

Hanged & burned for heresy & blasphemy for publishing the works of Erasmus

Mary enters London in triumph with Elizabeth beside her

Elizabeth accompanies Mary during the royal entry after the succession crisis

Mary enters London in triumph to claim the throne

Mary enters London to claim the throne, with the Earl of Arndel beside her

Edward de Vere succeeds his father as Earl of Oxford

Solms commands Allied infantry during the confused and costly attack at Steenkirk.

Boufflers helps reinforce the French army during the critical fighting at Steenkirk.

Baker commands Monmouth in the squadron attacking the town and southern defences of Gibraltar.

Byng leads a squadron in the naval bombardment that weakens Gibraltar before the final surrender.

Andrew Leake commands Grafton during the bombardment of Gibraltar before the Allied landing.

Jumper commands Lenox in the force attacking the New Mole during the capture of Gibraltar.

Whitaker's sailors and marines land at the New Mole and help force the Spanish command toward surrender.

The London Gazette prints the proclamation of the Lords Justices putting a pounds 30,000 bounty on the capture of Charles

Demands for the deposition of Louis XVI intensified as Parisian sections challenged the survival of constitutional monarchy.

Start of the 2nd Mahratta War against the British.

War against Scindia of Gwalior & his allies

Coordinates French naval forces during the Anglo-French siege of Bomarsund.

Prepares the General Council report on the right of inheritance for the International.

Announces at Berlin that the Sultan has ratified the treaty and considers it valid from the date of the ratification meeting.

Represents Britain when the principal instruments of ratification are exchanged in Berlin.

The settlement formalizes restored Transvaal self-government.

Helps formalize the restoration of republican administration.

Boer leaders sign the Pretoria Convention restoring Transvaal self-government.

Boer leaders announce the restoration of Transvaal republican government.

The agreement confirms substantial internal autonomy for the Transvaal.

Joins the Boer triumvirate accepting restored self-government.

Signs the Pretoria Convention after the Boer victory.

Signs the settlement with Britain.

Signs the Pretoria Convention restoring Transvaal self-government.

Signs the Pretoria Convention with Britain.

Signs the convention confirming Transvaal self-government.

Signs the convention settling the First Boer War.

Signs the convention settling the First Boer War.

Signs the Pretoria Convention with British representatives.

Signs the Pretoria Convention as a member of the Boer triumvirate.

Boer leaders announce the restoration of Transvaal republican government.

Secures restored Transvaal self-government under British suzerainty.

The agreement restores Transvaal self-government under British suzerainty.

The law creates a federal head tax on arriving immigrants.

Signs the Immigration Act of 1882.

Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer

Appointed Leader of the House of Commons

Ham orders his Victorians to dig defensive trenches shortly before the Boer attack on Elands River begins.

Germany declares war on France

Declares war on France on behalf of the German Government. Declared because France had dropped bombs on Belgium & Germany as far as Nurnberg

Belgium rejects Germany's demands for passage through Belgium

The British Government guarantee armed support to Belgium should Germany violate Belgian neutrality

Germany invades Belgium & is stopped at Liege

Germany calls for a free passage across Belgium but this is refused the following day. Belgium rejects Germany's demand for troop access

German troops cross the Belgian frontier at Vise in the province of Liege

Declares in the Commons the British army will act immediately if Belgium is threatened

Germany declares war on France

Makes an address in the Reichstag about the Russian "firebrand"

Appointed Minister of War

Bratianu supports neutrality when the Crown Council debates Romania's response to war.

Petitions Louis III of Bavaria to for service in a Bavarian regiment in World War I

The British Government guarantee armed support to Belgium should Germany violate Belgian neutrality

Emergency bank holidays and debt moratoria help contain financial panic at the outbreak of war.

Hanged for high treason in Pentonville prison

Hanged for high treason in Pentonville prison. Death of Roger Casement, executed for treason

Stalin is elected to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks

Stalin is elected to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks

Presses Kerensky for authority to rebuild army discipline.

Sworn in as the 30th President of the United States by his father, John C. Coolidge.

Begins his first presidential term after succeeding Warren Harding.

The vice presidency becomes vacant after Coolidge succeeds to the presidency.

Debates housing assistance for rural workers and the role of local authorities.

Winner of the 100m Olympic Gold Medal

Mediates between the Czech Government & Sudetens

Goring had promised Hitler that Adlertag and Adlerangriff would achieve the results required within days, or at worst weeks. It had meant to be the beginning of the end of RAF Fighter Command, but Adlertag and the following operations failed to destroy the RAF, or gain the necessary local air superiority. As a result, Operation Sea Lion was postponed indefinitely

Italy commences the occupation of British Somaliland

Eventually, it was carried out on 13 August 1940. Goring had promised Hitler that Adlertag and Adlerangriff would achieve the results required within days, or at worst weeks.

It had meant to be the beginning of the end of RAF Fighter Command, but Adlertag and the following operations failed to destroy the RAF, or gain the necessary local air superiority. As a result, Operation Sea Lion was postponed indefinitely

The essential target was RAF Fighter Command. The services destruction would deny the British their air superiority asset. Throughout July and early August, the Germans made preparations for Adlertag. The date of the assault was postponed several times because of bad weather.

Italy commences the occupation of British Somaliland

Orders Patton to clear Brittany with a "minimum forces"

Takes responsibility for housing as Minister of Health.

Appointed Minister of Health in Attlee's government.

Becomes Minister of Health in Attlee's government.

Begins the Camille Huysmans Government in Brussels and serves as Prime Minister of Belgium.

The Third Van Acker Government ends in Brussels, concluding this period as Prime Minister of Belgium.

Homi Bhabha leads India's atomic energy programme as the Department of Atomic Energy is created under the Prime Minister.

Verwoerd announces the referendum on a republic will be held 5th October

Announces that the republic referendum will occur on 5 October.

Prepares white voters to decide South Africa's constitutional status.

Warsaw Pact leaders meeting at Bratislava affirm Marxism-Leninism and collective responsibility for defending socialism.

In the Bratislava Declaration Russia expresses its intention to intervene in a Warsaw Pact country if a bourgeois system-a pluralist system of several political parties is ever established

The Bratislava Declaration aaffirms unshakable fidelity to Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism and declares an implacable struggle against bourgeois ideology and all antisocialist forces.

The policy later called the Brezhnev Doctrine asserts a Soviet right to defend Communist rule within the Eastern Bloc.

In the Bratislava Declaration Russia expresses its intention to intervene in a Warsaw Pact country if a bourgeois system-a pluralist system of several political parties is ever established

Representatives from Russia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia meet in Bratislava and sign the Bratislava Declaration.

The Bratislava Declaration aaffirms unshakable fidelity to Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism and declares an implacable struggle against bourgeois ideology and all antisocialist forces.

In the Bratislava Declaration Russia expresses its intention to intervene in a Warsaw Pact country if a bourgeois system-a pluralist system of several political parties is ever established

In the Bratislava Declaration Russia expresses its intention to intervene in a Warsaw Pact country if a bourgeois system-a pluralist system of several political parties is ever established

Brezhnev secures support from allied Warsaw Pact leaders for intervention against the Prague Spring.

Appears in the film Performance, expanding his work beyond the Rolling Stones.

Ratified by the US Senate

Sabbaghian oversees elections for the Assembly of Experts for the Constitution

The post of Prime Minister is abolished

Sworn in as President of a new Democratic Republic of Hungary

Sworn in as President of a new Democratic Republic of Hungary

P. Venugopal leads the AIIMS team that performs India's first successful heart transplant.

Announces he is leaving his wife

Joins Arsenal from Juventus and begins a career that will make him the club's record goalscorer.

Brown marries Sarah Macaulay at their home in North Queensferry.

Bhutto becomes a member of Minhaj ul Quran International (An international Muslim educational and welfare organisation)

Bhutto becomes a member of Minhaj ul Quran International (An international Muslim educational and welfare organisation)

MESSENGER launches to begin a complex seven-year journey that will culminate in the first orbital mission around Mercury.

Release Real Good Looking Boy as new material.

Recieves the presidential authorization from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei

Appointed President of Iran

"Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world"

"Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world"

Death of James II

Death of Etienne Dolet, executed

John de Vere dies and the Oxford earldom passes to Edward de Vere

Death of Roger Casement, executed for treason

Death of Georgy Babakin, chief designer associated with Soviet lunar and planetary probes.

Dies of a heart attack in Nicocea

Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Mauleon surrenders La Rochelle to Louis VIII, most devoted Poitevin town to England

Leaves Worcester for Evesham & blocks de Montforts route to Kenilworth

Reaches Evesham but is intercepted by Prince Edward before he can reach Kenilworth. Marches to Evesham enclosed by a loop in the River Avon on the road to Kenilworth. Arrives at Evesham unaware his sons forces were disbanded by the King at Kenilworth

Mortimer himself kills Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester in crushing Montforts army.

Mortimer is awarded Montforts severed head and other parts of his anatomy, which he sent home to Wigmore Castle as a gift for his wife, Lady Mortimer.

Sent by Prince Edward to head off Simon de Montforts route over the Bengeworth Bridge.

de Montforts army is surrounded by the River Avon on three sides, and Prince Edward's army on the fourth, Mortimer had sent his men to block the only possible escape route, at the Bengeworth bridge. Commands the rear guard

Killed at the Battle of Evesham fighting for the Barons

Killed at the Battle of Evesham fighting for the Barons

Helps free Henry III

Louis de Conde & Vicomte Henri de Turenne defeat the German army of Baron von Mercy

Defeated by a French army under Prince Louis De Conde & Vicomte Henri De Turenne

Louis de Conde & vicomte Henri de Turenne defeat the German army of Baron von Mercy

Turenne & Enghein invade Bavaria & defefeat Mercy

Turenne & Enghein invade Bavaria & defefeat Mercy

The French forces under Marshal Luxemburg defeat the English at Steenkerke

Luxembourg repels William III's surprise attack at Steenkirk and holds the French position.

William III of Orange commands the Allied attack that is repulsed by Luxembourg at Steenkirk.

William III of Orange commands the Allied army at Steinkirk, where Luxembourg defeats the coalition after a hard-fought engagement.

With an army of 60,000 routs a Turkish Army of nearly 150,000

With an army of 60,000 routs a Turkish Army of nearly 150,000

Massenas 1st military victory

Wounded with four sabre cuts at Lonato in Italy

Massena fought around Lonato during Bonaparte's operations against the Austrian attempt to relieve Mantua.

Appointed General of Brigade on the field of Battle of the Pyramids

Belgium rejects Germany's demands for passage through Belgium

The British Government guarantee armed support to Belgium should Germany violate Belgian neutrality

Germany invades Belgium & is stopped at Liege

Germany calls for a free passage across Belgium but this is refused the following day. Belgium rejects Germany's demand for troop access

German troops cross the Belgian frontier at Vise in the province of Liege

Declares in the Commons the British army will act immediately if Belgium is threatened

Coronation of James III

Enthrones at the age of 86, one of the worlds oldest reigning monarchs