{"id":16772,"date":"2022-08-07T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=212594"},"modified":"2022-08-07T06:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T04:25:07","slug":"7-august-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/7-august-on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"7 August: On this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 07 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><h3>7 August 1209<span class=\"&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Faced with an English invasion, William the Lion of Scotland agreed in the Treaty of Norham to pay 15,000 marks for <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/medieval\/king-john-facts-life-death\/&quot;\">King John<\/a>\u2019s \u2018goodwill\u2019 and handed over his two daughters for John to arrange their\u00a0marriages.<\/p>\n<hr\/><h3>7 August 1641<\/h3>\n<p>A parliamentary bill declaring ship money illegal received royal assent. Six years earlier <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/stuart\/king-charles-i-life-profile-rule-civil-war-death\/&quot;\">Charles I<\/a> had controversially extended ship money, a custom that required coastal counties to pay inland counties for the upkeep of the navy.<\/p>\n<hr\/><h3>7 August 1782<\/h3>\n<p>During the <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/georgian\/facts-american-war-of-independence-declaration-battle-yorktown-george-iii-colonies\/&quot;\">American Revolutionary War<\/a>, General <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/georgian\/george-washington-first-us-president-founding-father-facts-life\/&quot;\">George Washington<\/a> established the Badge of Military Merit to honour US soldiers wounded in battle. It is better known today as the Purple Heart.<\/p>\n<hr\/><h3>7 August 1840<\/h3>\n<p>An Act of Parliament made it illegal for anyone under the age of 16 to be apprenticed as a sweep and for anyone under 21 to be made or allowed to climb a chimney to clean it.<\/p>\n<hr\/><h3>7 August 1999<\/h3>\n<p>Led by the warlord Shamil Basayev, Islamist fighters cross the border from Chechnya into the Russian Republic of Dagestan, provoking a massive Russian military counter-attack and triggering the Second Chechen War.<\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;highlight\"><div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> <p><strong>Browse more <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/on-this-day-history\/&quot;\">On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong>Previous: <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/on-this-day\/3-august-on-this-day-in-history\/&quot;\">3 August<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Next: <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/on-this-day\/5-august-on-this-day-in-history\/&quot;\">5 August<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><p> <\/p><\/div> <div class=\"&quot;highlight__image-container&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;highlight__image&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;img-container\" img-container--highlight-image=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2010\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-09-at-17.22.22-8857e91.png?quality=45&amp;resize=556,556&quot;\" srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2010\/09\/Screenshot-2021-09-09-at-17.22.22-8857e91.png?quality=45&amp;resize=410,410\" https:=\"\" sizes=\"&quot;(min-width:\" calc=\"\" width=\"&quot;556&quot;\" height=\"&quot;556&quot;\" class=\"&quot;img-container__image\" img-fluid=\"\" wp-image-185988=\"\" alignnone=\"\" size-highlight_image=\"\" img-container__image=\"\" alt=\"&quot;Screenshot\" at=\"\" title=\"&quot;Screenshot\"\/><\/div><\/div> <\/div> <\/section><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elinor Evans Published: Sunday, 07 August 2022 at 12:00 am 7 August 1209\u00a0 Faced with an English invasion, William the Lion of Scotland agreed in the Treaty of Norham to pay 15,000 marks for King John\u2019s \u2018goodwill\u2019 and handed over his two daughters for John to arrange their\u00a0marriages. 7 August 1641 A parliamentary bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":16773,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/7-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/7-august-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/7-august-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/7-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/7-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/7-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/7-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Sunday, 07 August 2022 at 12:00 am 7 August 1209\u00a0 Faced with an English invasion, William the Lion of Scotland agreed in the Treaty of Norham to pay 15,000 marks for King John\u2019s \u2018goodwill\u2019 and handed over his two daughters for John to arrange their\u00a0marriages. 7 August 1641 A parliamentary bill&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/16772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}