August 1st in History
August 1st
1086 Results of the Domesday inquiry are presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable).
1315 Robert the Bruce's siege of Carlisle Castle ends in failure in Cumbria, England, during the First War of Scottish Independence.
The Battle of Colby Moor, which took place near Wiston, Pembrokeshire, during The English Civil War, on August 1st, 1645, was fought between the forces of Parliament and the Royalist army. It was to be the final confrontation between the two factions following three years of bitter struggle in West Wales.
1714 Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes King George I of England.
1774 English chemist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state.
1820 London's Regent's Canal opens.
1828 England's Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
On 1st August 1872 - Minffordd mainline railway station opened.
Minffordd Station is unusual, as it is actually two adjacent stations operated entirely independently of each other. The mainline station (Minffordd Junction) opened on 1 August 1872 at the point where the then newly built Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway line from Dovey Junction to Pwllheli (latterly to become part of the Cambrian Railways) passes under the existing narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from the quarries of Blaenau Ffestiniog for export from Porthmadog.
It also carried passengers from 1865 and the interchange between standard gauge and narrow gauge railways in the UK has never been common and Minffordd station, which in 1872 was the earliest to provide such a facility, is still in regular use.
Llandudno Pier, which was opened on 1st August 1877 is the longest pier in Wales at 2,295 feet (700 m) and is very unusual in that it has two entrances on either side of the Grand Hotel. The Pier, which was voted ‘Pier of the Year 2005’ was used for the 2002 TV production of The Forsyte Saga and for a 2013 advert for Volkswagon. It has been described as being like an Indian Gothic style Maharajah's palace zooming out of the sea.
1936 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolf Hitler in Berlin.
1 Aug 1963
The first Beatles Monthly was published. A magazine devoted to the group, it continued for 77 editions until 1969 and at its peak was selling over 350,000 copies a month.
1086 Results of the Domesday inquiry are presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable).
1315 Robert the Bruce's siege of Carlisle Castle ends in failure in Cumbria, England, during the First War of Scottish Independence.
The Battle of Colby Moor, which took place near Wiston, Pembrokeshire, during The English Civil War, on August 1st, 1645, was fought between the forces of Parliament and the Royalist army. It was to be the final confrontation between the two factions following three years of bitter struggle in West Wales.
1714 Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes King George I of England.
1774 English chemist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state.
1820 London's Regent's Canal opens.
1828 England's Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
On 1st August 1872 - Minffordd mainline railway station opened.
Minffordd Station is unusual, as it is actually two adjacent stations operated entirely independently of each other. The mainline station (Minffordd Junction) opened on 1 August 1872 at the point where the then newly built Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway line from Dovey Junction to Pwllheli (latterly to become part of the Cambrian Railways) passes under the existing narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from the quarries of Blaenau Ffestiniog for export from Porthmadog.
It also carried passengers from 1865 and the interchange between standard gauge and narrow gauge railways in the UK has never been common and Minffordd station, which in 1872 was the earliest to provide such a facility, is still in regular use.
Llandudno Pier, which was opened on 1st August 1877 is the longest pier in Wales at 2,295 feet (700 m) and is very unusual in that it has two entrances on either side of the Grand Hotel. The Pier, which was voted ‘Pier of the Year 2005’ was used for the 2002 TV production of The Forsyte Saga and for a 2013 advert for Volkswagon. It has been described as being like an Indian Gothic style Maharajah's palace zooming out of the sea.
1936 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolf Hitler in Berlin.
1 Aug 1963
The first Beatles Monthly was published. A magazine devoted to the group, it continued for 77 editions until 1969 and at its peak was selling over 350,000 copies a month.
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