Historical Events
- Aug 11 Germany throws out English sales people
First Dutch Expedition to East Indies
Aug 14 Cornelis de Houtman's Dutch fleet arrives back in Holland, the 1st Dutch visit to Java
- Aug 20 1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 21 Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist, born in East Peckham, Kent, England (d. 1672)
