0257On August - 30 st Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0524Chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29 on August - 30. 0580On August - 30 mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder (Islam) 1125On this day in history duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germa...
Collection of famous and important historical events that happened around the world in August - 28, nicely categorized in years and many more.
August 19 2024 holidays August 19 2026 holidays Historical Events on August 19 1612:3 women who hail from the village of Samlesbury, England are put on trial for practicing the dark arts of witchcraft. The trial of these 3 women, who were known as the Samlesbury witches, becomes one of th...
August 18 2026 holidays Historical Events on August 18 1587:The first English child born is America is born on this date. She was Virginia Dare, the granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke. 1590:Governor John White returns to the Roanoke Colony only to find out the se...
First held in 1986 on Baker Beach in San Francisco as a small function organized by Larry Harvey and a group of friends, it has since been held annually, spanning from the last Sunday in August to the first Monday in September (the U.S. Labor Day); for example, Burning Man 2015 took...
In the last two weeks of August, I was on holiday in St-Cyr-sur-Mer and during this time there was a lot of swapping of books. This is one of two works of historical fiction I read. I started with this one out of interest because it was set in the Champagne region of France, ...
Public deliberation has risen to the forefront of governance as a technique for increasing participation in policy making. Scholars and practitioners have also noted the potential for deliberation to give greater influence to historically marginalized populations, such as Indigenous peoples. However, there...
Historiographic debate in Australia over whether or not the asymmetrical conflicts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the colonial period can be characterized as “war” remains unresolved, largely because most such events did not involve the traditional military. In this regard the situati...
diameter. During the first phase of activity (11–28 August 1925), the dome reached a height of 73 m (a.s.l.) with a growth rate of 0.34 m/h and a maximum growth rate of 1.15 m/h in the first 2 days. By the activity’s end, the inclined dome’s eastern section was dipping...
Collection of famous and important historical events that happened around the world in August - 31, nicely categorized in years and many more.