Historical Events
Music History
Aug 15 Austrian composer Joseph Haydn leaves England forever after calling the time spent there "the happiest of his life"
- Aug 17 Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curacao
- Aug 18 Curacao governor De Veer sends militia to stop rebellious slaves
- Aug 20 Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
- Aug 25 Curaçao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
Famous Birthdays
Famous Deaths
- Aug 4 Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
- Aug 19 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer, dies at 67
- Aug 26 Alessandro Cagliostro [Giuseppe Balsamo], Italian adventurer and magician (Prince of Quacks), dies while serving a life imprisonment for being a freemason in Castel Sant'Angelo at 52
- Aug 31 François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess champion, dies at 68
