Historical Events
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Aug 21 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
Darwin Invited Aboard HMS Beagle
Aug 24 Naturalist John Henslow writes to Charles Darwin to offer him a place aboard the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the South American coast [1]
1st Electric Transformer
Aug 29 Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 13 Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer, born in Wrocław, Poland (d. 1902)
- Aug 16 Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman (drafted first FA rules), born in Kingston upon Hull, England (d. 1924)
- Aug 16 Edward Payson Chapin, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Waterloo, New York (d. 1863)
- Aug 16 John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (1884-87), born in Quebec City, Canada (d. 1901)
- Aug 19 Stephen Gano Burbridge, "Butcher of Kentucky", American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Georgetown, Kentucky (d. 1894)
- Aug 28 Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1885)
- Aug 28 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady of the United States (1877-81), born in Chillicothe, Ohio (d. 1889)
