Events & Holidays In August - 15

Acadian Day (Canada)

Anniversary of Liberation (North Korea)

Assumption Day (International)

Dangjiru Festival (Tibet)

Day of the Virgin Mary (Ireland)

Encamp, La Massana (Andorra)

Feast of Assumption (Benin)

Flooding of the Nile (Egypt)

Foundation of Asuncion (Paraguay)

Foundation of Old Panama (Panama)

Hu nuco (Peru)

Independence Day (Congo (Republic of) India)

La Digue Festival (Seychelles)

Liberation Day (South Korea)

Maria Himmelfahrt (Assumption Day) (Switzerland)

Military Regime Day (Niger)

Montserrat Annual Pilgrimage (Montserrat)

Mother's Day (Costa Rica)

National Day (Liechtenstein)

National Mourning Day (Bangladesh)

Our Lady of Bissila (Equatorial Guinea)

Special Holiday Malatta Province (Solomon Islands)

Velika gospa - Assumption (Western Christians) (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Virgin of Asunta (Peru)

Virgin of the Ascension (Peru)

Constitution Day (Equatorial Guinea)

1171  On this day in history birth of king Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)   

1195  On this day in history birth of anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)   

1432  Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante) was born on this day in history.   

1575  Bartol KaÅ¡ić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650) was born on this day in history.   

1613  Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692) was born on this day in history.   

1619  On this day in history birth of hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate   

1688  Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740) was born on this day in history.   

1702  Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher was born on this day in history.   

0069  On this day in history death of servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered   

0423  Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies on this day in history.   

0778  On this day in history death of roland, Frankish commander   

1038  Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies on this day in history.   

1040  On this day in history death of king Duncan I of Scotland   

1057  On this day in history death of macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan   

1118  On this day in history alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies   

1196  Death of Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173) on this day in history.