1146: European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time

1363: Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

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

1682: William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

1862: Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces

1914: Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) in East Prussia ends in destruction of the Russian Second Army with 122,000-170,000 killed, injured or captured by the German 8th Army led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff

1928: Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India

Source: Onthisday.com