Year 475 » The Roman Empire Roman general Orestes (Roman soldier) Orestes forces western Roman Emperors Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
Year 489 » Theodoric the Great e.g Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo (489) or Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
Year 663 » Silla–Tang Dynasty or Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato period called Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
Year 1189 » Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre (1189–1191) known as Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
Year 1524 » The Kaqchikel people called Kaqchikel Maya civilization e.g Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
Year 1542 » Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–57) e.g Turkish–Portuguese War (1538–1557): Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
Year 1565 » Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
Year 1619 » Ferdinand II of Germany called Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Year 1648 » Siege of Colchester ended when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the English Civil War.
Year 1709 » Pamheiba known as Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
Year 1789 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
Year 1810 » Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
Year 1833 » The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.
Year 1845 » The first issue of 'Scientific American' magazine is published.
Year 1849 » After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
Year 1861 » American Civil War: Union (American Civil War) e.g Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
Year 1862 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.
Year 1867 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
Year 1879 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulu people named Zulus, is captured by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or British.
Year 1898 » Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called "Pepsi-Cola".
Year 1901 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first United States known as American private school named private school in the country.
Year 1909 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
Year 1913 » Wilhelmina of the Netherlands e.g Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
Year 1914 » World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German Empire e.g German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) named Battle of Heligoland Bight.
Year 1914 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur (city) or Namur in Belgium.
Year 1916 » World War I: Germany declares war on Kingdom of Romania e.g Romania.
Year 1916 » World War I: Kingdom of Italy e.g Italy declares war on Germany.
Year 1917 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
Year 1924 » The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic known as Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
Year 1931 » France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
Year 1937 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
Year 1943 » World War II: In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazism called Nazi occupation starts.
Year 1944 » World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
Year 1955 » African American or Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
Year 1957 » United States Senate named U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
Year 1963 » March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his 'I Have a Dream' speech
Year 1963 » Career Girls Murders Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda warning Miranda Rights.
Year 1963 » The Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge—Evergreen Point e.g Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest pontoon bridge known as floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US.
Year 1964 » The 1964 Philadelphia race riot known as Philadelphia race riot begins.
Year 1968 » Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention known as Democratic National Convention.
Year 1979 » An Provisional Irish Republican Army e.g IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt (Brussels) named Grote Markt in Brussels.
Year 1988 » Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
Year 1990 » Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest Provinces of Iraq known as province.
Year 1990 » 1990 Plainfield tornado An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield, Illinois Plainfield and Joliet, Illinois Joliet, killing 29 people.
Year 1996 » Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
Year 1998 » Second Congo War: Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo e.g Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the Rally for Congolese Democracy or RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.