What happend on 3rd August

02.08
04.08
1783

Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.

1678

Robert LaSalle builds the Griffon, the first known ship built in America.

1645

The Second Battle of Nördlingen is fought between the forces of France and the Holy Roman Empire.

1635

The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).

1492

Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

1492

The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.