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  Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231) was born on this day in history.  

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

1575  On this day in history birth of bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)  

1613  On this day in history birth of gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)  

1619  Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate was born on this day in history.  

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  Death of Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered on this day in history.  

0423  On this day in history flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies  

0778  Death of Roland, Frankish commander on this day in history.  

1038  On this day in history stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies  

1040  Death of King Duncan I of Scotland on this day in history.  

1057  Death of Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan on this day in history.  

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

1196  On this day in history death of conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)