AUGUST
1
Lammas, beginning of 30-day agrarian
festival
1291:
The Republic of Switzerland founded.
2
1578: Juliet
Capulet born, according to Shakespeare.
1589: Jaques Clement assassinates King Henry III of France.
3
1460: James
II of Scotland killed by the English during seige of Roxburgh
Castle.
1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain in search
of a trade route to India.
4
St. Dominic's Day
1060: Henry I of France dies.
5
6
1497: John Cabot returns from the
New World, where he claimed Nova Scotia for England's King Henry
VII.
1660: Diego Velazquez, painter, dies.
7
8
1570: French
Civil War ends; Huguenots granted amnesty.
9
1588: English
defeat the Spanish Armada.
10
St. Laurence's Day
11
12
1099: Crusaders
defeat the Egyptians at Ascalon.
1503: Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway, born.
1530: Florence restored to the Medicis after a seige of 10
months.
13
St. Cassian's Day patron saint
of school teachers
1521: Hernan Cortes captures and destroys
Tenochtitlan (Mexico City).
1624: Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister
of France.
14
1040: Duncan
I killed in battle by Macbeth, his only rival to the Scottish
throne.
15
1057: Macbeth
killed by Malcom Canmore near Aberdeen, Scotland.
1534: The Jesuit Order founded in Paris by St. Ignatius of
Loyola.
16
1513: England's
King Henry VIII defeats the French at the Battle of the Spurs.
17
St. Rock's Day
1585: Spanish forces led by the Duke
of Parma take Antwerp during the Dutch War of Liberation.
18
1587: Virginia Dare, first child born to
English parents in the New World, born.
19
1477: Maximilian
I succeeds Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor.
1561: Mary, Queen of Scots, arrives in Scotland to assume
the throne, spending 13 years in France.
20
St Bernard's Day,
abbot of Claivaux
21
1165: Philip
II, King of France, is born.
22
1485: King Richard III slain at the
Battle of Bosworth Field.
1623: Order of the Rosy Cross established in Paris..
1642: King Charles of England declares war on Parliament
23
1305: Sir William
Wallace hanged, drawn, and quartered in London.
24
St. Bartholomew's Day
1572: St. Bartholomew's Day massacre;
70,000 Hugenots killed in France.
25
1270: King
Louis IX of France, leader of the Seventh Crusade, dies.
1530: Ivan the Terrible, Russian Tzar, born.
26
1346: English forces defeat the French
at the Battle of Crecy.
27
1576: Venetian painter, Titian, dies.
28
St. Augustine's Day, bishop of
Hippo
1619: Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman
Emperor.
29
1350: English defeat the Spanish fleet
at the Battle of Winchelsea.
30
St. Rose of Lima's Day
1483: Louis XI of France dies and
is succeeded by his son, Charles VIII.
31
1422: England's King Henry V dies
of dysentery in France and is succeeded by his 9-month-old son,
Henry VI.
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