User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/August 1

August 1

 * 1664 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
 * 1798 - Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
 * 1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
 * 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
 * 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
 * 1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
 * 1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.