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August 16 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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  • Eastern Orthodox: commemoration of the translation of the Acheiropoietos icon which means "Not made by hands", (also known as the Mandelion; now lost) from Edessa to Constantinople on 16 August 944
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August 1 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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August 2 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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August 3 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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  • 8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.

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August 4 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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  • 70 - The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.

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August 5 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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  • 642 - Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia.

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August 6 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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  • 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

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August 7 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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August 8 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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  • 1220 - Sweden was defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.

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August 9 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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August 10 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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  • 1806 - Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
  • 1833 - Chicago was founded.
  • 1851 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
  • 1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.
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    • August 13 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    • 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the Maya calendar starts.

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    August 14 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    August 15 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    • 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed.

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    August 17 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    August 19 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    • 43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the senate to elect him Consul.

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    August 20 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    August 21 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    • 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto

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    August 22 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    • 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.

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    August 23 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    • 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

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    August 24 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    August 25 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    • 325 - Council of Nicea convened by Emperor Constantine.

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    August 26 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    • 55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain.

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    August 30 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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    • 1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

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    August 31 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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