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 | 
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