August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).
Historical Events for August, 1776
Day of Week 2nd » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
Day of Week 10th » American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
Day of Week 27th » Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe called William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1776
9th » Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist and chemist (d. 1856)
25th » Thomas Bladen Capel, English admiral (d. 1853)