Historical Events
Battle of Vimeiro
Aug 21 Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Henry Darwin Rogers, American Geologist (theory of mountain building, first geological mapping of Pennsylvania), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1866)
- Aug 3 Hamilton Fish, American politician (Governor of New York), born in New York City (d. 1893)
- Aug 9 William Thomas Ward, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Amelia County, Virginia (d. 1878)
- Aug 10 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, German composer, conductor, and music theorist, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1880)
- Aug 15 Charles Fisher, Canadian politician and jurist (Premier of the Colony of New Brunswick 1854-56, 1857-51), born in Fredericton, New Brunswick (d. 1880) [or born 16 Sept] [1]
- Aug 19 James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam hammer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1890)
- Aug 24 Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1891)
- Aug 26 Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Claiborne County, Mississippi (d. 1882)
- Aug 29 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician and reformer, born in Delitzsch, Saxony (d. 1883)
- Aug 30 Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Mother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, born in Munich (d. 1892)
