August 31 – Some important events on this day. 1142 👉🏼 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League...
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August 30 – Some important events on this day. 257 👉🏼 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope...
August 29 – Some important events on this day. 1350 👉🏼 Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The...
Residents of an industrial area of Olten, a town in north-western Switzerland, just few days ago, have been reporting chocolate...
August 28 – Some important events on this day. 476 👉🏼 Orestes, father of Emperor Romulus Augustulus is captured and...
The biggest explosion the world has ever known (try to imagine: an estimated 13,000 times greater than the bomb that...
August 27 – Some important events on this day. 479 BC 👉🏼 Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led...
August 26 – Some important events on this day. 1071 👉🏼 Battle of Manzikert: Seljuq Turks led by sultan Alp...
August 25 – Some important events on this day. 325 👉🏼 Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene...
August 24 – Some important events on this day. 49 BC 👉🏼 Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated...
August 23 – Some important events on this day. 79 👉🏼 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan,...
August 22 – Some important events on this day. 565 👉🏼 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness 1454...
August 21 – Some important events on this day. 1192 👉🏼 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de...
August 20 – Some important events on this day. 2 👉🏼 Venus and Jupiter in conjunction - possible astrological explanation...
August 19 – Some important events on this day. 43 BC 👉🏼 Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman...
August 18 – Some important events on this day. 293 BC 👉🏼 The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is...
August 17 – Some important events on this day. 1585 👉🏼 Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by Duke of...
August 16 – Some important events on this day. 1384 👉🏼 Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears case...
Celebrated on August 15, the so called Ferragosto may well be considered the height of the Italian summer: many Italians...
August 15 – Some important events on this day. 778 👉🏼 Battle of Roncevaux Pass: Roland, commander of the rearguard...
On this day, August 14, 1936 a crowd estimated at 10,000 to 20,000 gathered at Owensboro, Kentucky, to watch the...
August 14 – Some important events on this day. 554 👉🏼 Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantine military governor in Italy...
August 13 – Some important events on this day. 3114 BC 👉🏼 According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of...
The frigate Madagascar left Melbourne for London on this day, August 12, 1853 with more than 150 passengers and its...
August 12 – Some important events on this day. 3 👉🏼 Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem 1121 👉🏼 Battle of...
August 11 – Some important events on this day. 3114 BC 👉🏼 The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several...
In August, as Earth’s orbit crosses the dust ejected by the comet Swift-Tuttle (the largest object known to repeatedly pass...
August 10 – Some important events on this day. 612 BC 👉🏼 Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction...
August 9 – Some important events on this day. 48 BC 👉🏼 Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius...
August 8 – Some important events on this day. 1220 👉🏼 Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle...
