1 August

Events that occurred on 1 August

On Earth

• 1896 - John Benjamin Tolkien, grandfather of J.R.R. Tolkien, dies.
• 1917 – "Tea Cake" Barnsley is killed near Ypres while consoling a captured prisoner.
• 1917 – J.R.R. Tolkien attends an annual Minden Day Dinner at either Thirtle Bridge camp or Tunstall Hall.
• 1937 - Voice actor Ian Hogg is born.
• 1950 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 128.
• 1959 - J.R.R. Tolkien serves the first Mass of Robert Murray.
• 1962 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 240.
• 1969 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Mr Burrows.
• 1988 - Mythcon 19 in Berkeley, California.
• 1993 - Mythcon 24 at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
• 1997 - The German Tolkien Society Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. is founded.
• 1999 - Mythcon 30 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 2004 - Mythcon 35 at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
• 2008 - Pauline Baynes, Tolkien's favourite artist, dies.
• 2015 - Mythcon 46 in Hotel Elegante, Colorado Springs.

In Arda

• T.A. 3018:
  • Gandalf is held captive by Saruman on the pinnacle of Orthanc.
  • Boromir travels towards Rivendell to ask for counsel.
• T.A. 3019:
  • The funeral procession of king Théoden travels toward Edoras.