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, 1801
Day of Week 1st » First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise 1799 6 Action of 1 August 1801 captures the Tripolitan polacca 'Tripoli' in a list of single-ship actions single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1801
21st » Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (d. 1876)
28th » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)