August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining.
August 24 - Events.
49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio is slain in battle.
AD 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
410 - The Visigoths under Alar ...
August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining.
August 25 - Events.
1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded.
1758 - Seven Years ...
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining.
August 26 - Events.
55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain
1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert
1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
1346 - Hundred Years' War: The militar ...
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining.
August 14 - Events.
1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor Macbeth
1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of ...
August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 134 days remaining.
August 19 - Events.
293 BC - Oldest known Roman temple to Venus Libitina founded on the Esquiline Hill; institution of Vinalia Rustica begins.
1561 - Queen Mary Stuart returns to Scotland.
1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Massachusetts five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1745 - ...
August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 137 days remaining.
August 16 - Events.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the ...
August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining.
August 5 - Events.
642 - Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia
1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey
1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1583 - Sir Humphrey G ...
August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining.
August 27 - Events.
479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece ended.
55 BC - Julius Caesar lands in Britain for the first time.
AD 410 - Visigo ...
August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining.
August 28 - Events.
475 - The Pannonian general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints Romulus Augustus in his place.
489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1521 - The Turks occupy Belgrade
1542 - Reinforced wi ...
August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining.
August 4 - Events.
1265 - The Battle of Evesham of the Second Barons' War is fought in Worcestershire, with the army of future King Edward I of England defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and killing de Montfort and many of his allies. This is sometimes considered the death of chivalry in England.
1578 - Battle of A ...
August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining.
August 6 - Events.
1538 - Bogota, Colombia founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada.
1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1819 - Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1861 - British ann ...
August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining.
August 2 - Events.
338 BC - Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
216 BC - Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art.
461 - Majorian resig ...
August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining.
August 22 - Events.
1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses
1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy
1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War
1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immi ...
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining. It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. It is also known as the "Glorious Twelfth" in the UK, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season.
August 12 - Events.
490 BC - the Battle of Marathon, in which Athens defeated an invasion army of Persians, may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar - but see 12 Septe ...
August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining.
August 15 - Events.
778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed
927 - The Saracens conquered and destroyed Taranto
1057 - King MacBeth of Scotland is killed during the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of King Malcolm III.
1185 - The cave city of Vardzia was consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia
1309 - The city of Rhodes ...
August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 135 days remaining.
August 18 - Events.
1201 - The city of Riga is founded.
1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
1572 - Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcil ...
August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining.
August 8 - Events.
1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned in the town of Chittoor in the present-day state of Andhra Pradesh, India. His accession marks the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire after a period of internal strife.
1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage.
1588 - Battle of Gravelines ...
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. His singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade, depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African-American experience in the 20th century.
August Wilson - Biography.
Born Frederick August Kittel in Pittsburgh's Hill District, fourth of six children of Frederick Kittel, an immigrant German baker who seldom spent time with his family, and Daisy Wilson ...
August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining.
August 30 - Events.
711 - K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of the Maya city of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.
1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1813 - Battle of Kulm: Fr ...
August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining.
August 21 - Events.
1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1680 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
17 ...
Auguste Comte (full name Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte) (January 17 (recorded January 19), 1798 - September 5, 1857) was a positivist thinker and came up with the term of sociology to name the new science made by Saint-Simon.
Auguste Comte - His life.
Known as the 'father of sociology', he was born in Montpellier, in southwestern France. After attending school there, Comte was allowed to study at the École Polytechnique in Paris. The École Polytechnique was a place adhering t ...
