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).
Day of Week 13th » Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God in Christianity called God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
Day of Week 21st » Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
Day of Week 29th » Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1831
1st » Antonio Cotogni, Italian opera singer (d. 1918)
12th » Helena Blavatsky, Russian theosophist and scholar (d. 1891)
16th » John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (d. 1901)
18th » Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (d. 1931)
28th » Lucy Webb Hayes, American wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, 20th List of First Ladies of the United States named First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
Famous Deaths for August 1831
23rd » Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author (b. 1759)
23rd » August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)