King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.

Theoderic the GreatDysenteryRavennaAmalasunthaRegency

Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

Peter III of AragonTrapaniWar of the Sicilian Vespers

The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.

Battle of Lake PoyangChen YouliangZhu YuanzhangYuan dynasty

Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.

Pope Paul IIPope Pius IIPope

Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

Guru Ram DasSikh GuruGuru

Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)

Tokugawa IeyasuEdo CastleJapanese calendar

Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.

Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of OrangeGeorge II of Great BritainPrincess Royal

HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.

HMS Pandora (1779)Great Barrier Reef

The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.

Vlieter IncidentRalph AbercrombyAdmiralWar of the Second Coalition

Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.

Gabriel ProsserSlave rebellionRichmond, Virginia

First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

First Battle of KulmPrussia

Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.

Creek WarFort Mims massacreCreek peopleRed SticksMobile, Alabama

Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.

Melbourne, Victoria

American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.

American Civil WarBattle of RichmondConfederate States of AmericaEdmund Kirby SmithUnion Army

Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

Julius von PayerKarl WeyprechtArchipelagoFranz Josef Land

Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

Philippine RevolutionBattle of San Juan del MontePhilippinesGovernor-General of the PhilippinesRamón Blanco y Erenas

Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

Burgess ShaleCharles Doolittle Walcott

World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.

World War IBattle of Tannenberg

Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.

VietnamThái Nguyên uprisingThái Nguyên

Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

Fanni KaplanBolshevikVladimir LeninBolshevikMoisei Uritsky

Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").

Battle of DumlupınarGreco-Turkish War (1919-22)

The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.

Second Vienna AwardNorthern TransylvaniaRomania

World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.

Battle of Alam el Halfa

Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.

The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

Commander-in-chiefDouglas MacArthurAtsugi Air Force Base

The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.

Allied Control Council

The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.

August RevolutionBảo ĐạiNguyễn dynasty

Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

NAMC YS-11

The Moscow-Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

Moscow-Washington hotlineSoviet Union

Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Thurgood MarshallAfrican AmericanAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesSupreme Court of the United States