What is August 7?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[322 BC]] &ndash; [[Battle of Crammon]] between [[Athens]] and Macedon. * [[461]] &ndash; [[Roman Emperor]] [[Majorian]] is beheaded near the [[river]] Iria in northwestern [[Italy]]. * [[626]] &ndash; The [[Avar]] and [[Slav]] armies leave the [[Siege of Constantinople]]. * [[768]] &ndash; [[Pope Stephen III]] is elected. * [[936]] &ndash; [[Coronation]] of King [[Otto I of Germany]]. * [[1316]] &ndash; [[Pope John XXII]] is elected. * [[1420]] &ndash; Building of the [[dome]] of Santa Maria del Fiore in [[Florence]], [[Italy]] begins. * [[1461]] &ndash; [[Ming Dynasty]] Chinese general [[Cao Qin]] stages a [[coup]] against the [[Tianshun Emperor]]. * [[1588]] &ndash; The [[England|English]] [[Navy]] defeats the [[Spanish Armada]]. * [[1679]] &ndash; The [[brigantine]] [[Le Griffon]], which was commissioned by [[René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]], is towed to the southern end of the [[Niagara River]], to become the first ship to sail the upper [[Great Lakes]] of [[North America]]. * [[1714]] &ndash; [[Battle of Gangut]]: First important victory in the [[Russia]]n [[Navy]]. * [[1782]] &ndash; [[George Washington]] orders the creation of the [[Badge of Military Merit]] to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic [[Purple Heart]]. * [[1789]] &ndash; The [[United States Department of War]] is established. * [[1794]] &ndash; [[Whiskey Rebellion]] begins: Farmers in the [[Monoghaela Valley]] of [[Pennsylvania]] rebel against the federal tax on [[liquor]] and distilled drinks. * [[1819]] &ndash; [[Simón Bolívar]] triumphed over [[Spain]] in the [[Battle of Boyacá]]. * [[1858]] &ndash; The first [[Australian rules football]] match is played between [[Melbourne]] Grammar and Scotch College. * [[1879]] &ndash; Opening of the [[Poor Man's Palace]] in [[Manchester]], [[England]]. * [[1884]] &ndash; [[Germany]] takes control of [[Southwest Africa]], present–day [[Namibia]]. * [[1888]] &ndash; In the [[US]], [[Theophilus Van Kanne