Historical Events
- Aug 24 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning a supposed witch
Jephtha
Aug 30 George Frideric Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
- Aug 31 British troops under Sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot, India
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 7 Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1767-1806), born in Berlin (d. 1820)
- Aug 12 Johann Baptist Lasser, German composer, born in Steinkirchen, Electorate of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1805)
- Aug 19 Samuel Prescott, American physician and patriot who with Paul Revere and William Dawes warned Massachusetts minutemen the regulars are coming before the battles of Lexington and Concord, born in Concord, Massachusetts, British America (d. 1777) [1]
- Aug 21 Johann Georg Witthauer, German composer, born in Neustadt near Coburg (d. 1802)
- Aug 23 Louis-François Beffara, French lexicographer, born in Nonancourt, France (d. 1838)
Famous Deaths
- Aug 30 Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
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