August 6 - Holidays and observances: Encyclopedia - August 6August 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 ...
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