THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 7
August 7 in history
What happened on August 7: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1819 and 1999, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Boyacá
7 Aug 1819 — After crossing flooded plains and a freezing 4,000-meter pass, Bolívar destroys the royalist army of New Granada in two hours.
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— Invasion of Dagestan
7 Aug 1999 — Islamist fighters based in Chechnya and led by Shamil Basayev and Khattab cross into Dagestan to support a local rising. Two days later Yeltsin names Vladimir Putin, the former head of the security service, as prime minister, and Russian forces drive the invaders back within weeks.
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