Historical Events
- Aug 30 Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 6 Catherine Beecher, American educator (championed higher education for women), born in East Hampton, New York (d. 1878)
- Aug 21 Hiram Walden, American politician, born in Pawlet, Vermont (d. 1880)
- Aug 22 Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar, born in Trieste, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1865)
- Aug 22 William S. Harney, U.S. general, born in Madison, Tennessee (d. 1889)
Famous Weddings
Elizabeth Fry
Aug 19 Social reformer Elizabeth Fry née Gurney (20) weds tea dealer Joseph Fry (23) at the Norwich Quaker Meeting House in Norwich, England
Famous Deaths
- Aug 3 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, German composer, dies at 63
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