AUGUST 



473 



AUGUST 



AUGUST CALENDAR 



Birthdays 



1. Kit hard Henry Dana, 1815 



Marlon Crawford. 1854 

 Duncan Campbell Scott. 

 1. Percy Mysshe Shelley. 17lJ 

 ;. Alfn-<l Tennyson. 1809 



Lord Strathcona and Mount 

 1820 



8. Nelson A. Miles. 1839 



9. Izaak Walton. 1593 



Kr: i ncls Scott Key. 1780 



12. Robert Southey, 1771 



13. Goldwin Smith. 1823 



1 !. Sir James Douglas. 1803 



Ernest Thompson St<m. 1860 

 15. Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769 



Sir Walter Scott. 1771 

 Thomas De Qulncey. 1785 



17. David Crockett. 17s; 



18. Virginia Dare. 1587 

 Meriwether Lewis. 1774 



Royal, 19. James Nasmyth. 1808 



20. Benjamin Harrison. 1833 



22. John B. Gough, 1817 



24. William Wllberforco. 



2f>. Francis Bret Hart.-. ls::;i 



26. Sir Robert Walpole, 1676 



28. Sir Kdward Murne-Jones. 1833 



L'!.. J.-lin Locke. K',32 



Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1809 

 31. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844 



History 



10. 



Columbus first landed on American 



continent. 

 Mattle of the Nile. 1798 



ado admitted to the Union. 1876 

 Germany declared war on Russia. 1 ! 1 1 

 Henry Hudson first entered Hudson 



1610 

 German invasion of Belgium begun, 



1914 

 Columbus sailed from Spain on his 



first voyage, 1492 



United States vessels bombarded Trip- 

 oli. 1804 

 All titles of nobility abolished in 



France, 1789 

 Chinese exclusion law went Into opera- 



tion In United States, 1882 

 Cardinal Sarto elected Pope as Plus 



X. 1903 

 Sir Humphrey Gilbert landed at Saint 



John*. Newfoundland, 1583 

 First partition of Poland. 177J 

 Jink-land declared war against Ger- 

 many. 1914 



Roman Empire ceased to exist, 

 1801 



of Thermopylae, 4 SO B. c. 



bet, !!"> 



Bonaparte nailed from Kn^land for 

 a prisoner, 1815. 



irnod at 



Washington. 1842 

 Edw.-i 1 002 



II i admitte.l t<> the t'nlon 

 Russian and .) 



ners met uth. N. 11 . 

 i !':, 



Fulton's Clcrmont made a trial trip, 



Settl.-merit of bound. irv between On- 

 1884 







.ml Alba; 



United States and Spain signed peace 



proposal. Ittl 



France and England declared war on 

 Austria. 1914 



13. Mexico city captured by Spaniards. 



1520 

 Manila surrendered to United s 



1898 

 Norway voted for separation from 



Sweden. 1905 



14. Foreign armies entered Peking to re- 



lieve legations, 1900 



15. Fort Dearborn massacre, 1812 

 Lafayette returned to visit Am- 



16. Battle of Bennlngton. 1777 

 General :-o|t. 1*1 1 1 



18. Kearney took Santa Fe, New Mexico. 



1846 



19. Gucrridre surrendered to the Constitu- 



tion, 1812 

 Parliament passed bill for Union r of 



South Africa. 1909 

 Mattle of Lorraine b.-sran. 1914 



20. Pilgrims sailed from England on Jfay- 



flnlft f. ' 



"i. Lincoln-Douglas d. -hates began, 1858 



attle of Bosworth. 1485 

 23. Germans began _ attack on 



"i. Massacre of saint Bartholomew. 

 p.ritish took Washington, D. C.. 



burn. DltOl, 1M I 



: :.. Two hundred inhabitants of Montreal 

 killed by Iroquols Indians. 1689 



17. Kn^lish captun-d I-'ort l-'roiiteiiae, Catl- 



!e of I.onu- Island. 



iin burned by C.ermans, 1914 

 itish Parliament abolished hlaveiy 

 In the c-oloni. 



Mot -ident 



kingdom, 



b-lbourm-. 'S35 



:: |fassa< n f I-'OM Mini-. 1813 

 :M|| Run. i 



S. C., 1886 



For Study 



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 Caterpillar 



Molting 



Poppy 

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Bet d Oil i- 1 J 



ThlKtle 



heavens (see ASTRONOMY) 

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