8th » Mont Blanc on the France called French – Italy known as Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
11th » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1786
17th » Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (d. 1836)
17th » Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1861)