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, 1810
Day of Week 9th » Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
Day of Week 21st » Charles XIV John of Sweden e.g Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown prince e.g Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
Day of Week 26th » The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his Liniers Counter-revolution named counter-revolution.
Day of Week 27th » Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy Battle of Grand Port defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port District Grand Port on Mauritius Île de France.
Day of Week 28th » Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1810
10th » Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1861)
29th » Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian theorist and diplomat (d. 1884)
Famous Deaths for August 1810
12th » Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
26th » Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)