Historical Events
- Aug 1 Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia [1] [2]
- Aug 1 Rotherhithe Tunnel under the Thames opens
- Aug 9 US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- Aug 14 Second Seminole War declared over by US Army Colonel Worth, after nearly 7 years; more than 3000 Seminole Nation survivors re-located from Florida to Oklahoma, only about 300 allowed to remain [1]
- Aug 21 The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
- Aug 29 Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ending the Opium war
- Aug 31 American blacksmith Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine
- Aug 31 US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 14 Henry Duff Traill, British author and journalist (The Marquis of Salisbury), born in Blackheath, London (d. 1900)
- Aug 16 Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (algebraic geometry and invariant theory), born in Brody, Ukraine (d. 1922)
- Aug 20 Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1935)
- Aug 24 Edouard J. A. Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1885)
- Aug 26 Heinrich Quincke, German internist and surgeon (introduced lumbar puncture), born in Frankfurt an der Oder (d. 1922)
- Aug 28 Willem Linnig The Younger, Flemish painter and graphic artist, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1890)
- Aug 29 Alfred Shaw, English cricket medium/spin bowler (7 Tests; bowled first ball in Test cricket; first to take 5 wickets in a Test innings; Nottinghamshire CCC, MCC), born in Burton Joyce, England (d. 1907)
- Aug 30 Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, Eldest child of Alexander II of Russia, born in Catherine Palace, Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1849)
- Aug 30 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, French pianist and composer, born in Paris (d. 1907)
Famous Deaths
- Aug 10 Captain William Hobson, first British Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi, dies of a stroke at 49
- Aug 18 Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia in 1811), dies at 62
- Aug 25 Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian French composer, dies at 80
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