August
- George I proclaimed King, 1714.
Nelson wins Battle of the Nile, 1798. - Horace Saussure reaches summit of Mt. Blanc, 1787.
Potsdam Conference ended, 1945. - Treaty of Cambrai, 1529.
Sir Roger Casement hanged, 1916. - Battle of Alcazar-Quivir, 1578.
Germany invaded Belgium, 1914.
Britain declares war on Germany, 1914. - Xerxes I, King of Persia murdered, 465 B.C.
Guy de Maupassant born, 1850. - First atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945.
- Diet of Worms proclaims Perpetual Peace, 1495.
Louis Philippe accepted crown of France, 1830. - Napoleon Bonaparte leaves for St. Helena, 1815.
Battle of Britain began, 1940. - Battle of Adrianople, 378.
First Atlantic cable completed 1858. - Greenwich Observatory founded, 1675.
Storming of the Tuileries, 1792. - Axis Conference at Salzburg began, 1939.
- Robert Southey born, 1774.
- Battle of Blenheim, 1704.
- Atlantic Charter made public, 1941.
Surrender of Japan, 1945. - Napoleon Bonaparte born, 1769.
Opening of Panama Canal, 1914. - Peterloo Massacre, 1819.
- Antwerp sacked by Spaniards, 1585.
Frederick the Great died, 1786. - Verdun offensive began, 1917.
- Caesar Augustus died, 14 A.D.
Orville Wright born, 1871. - St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153.
Emily Bronte born, 1818. - Trotsky assassinated in Mexico, 1940.
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968. - Battle of Bosworth Field begins Tudor dynasty, 1485.
- Louis XVI born, 1754.
St. Bartholomew's massacre of Huguenots, 1572. - Rome taken by the Huns, 410.
- Allies liberated Paris, 1944.
Belgian Revolution, 1830. - Battle of Crecy, 1346.
Declaration of the Rights of Man adopted, 1789.
Women's suffrage began in U.S., 1920. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel born, 1770.
- Lohengrin produced by Franz Liszt at Weimar, 1850.
- Battle of Bouvines, 1214.
John Locke born, 1632. - Cleopatra commits suicide, 30 B.C.
- Korea renounces Japanese sovereignty, 1919.
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