523 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
554 – Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his long and distinguished service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him extensive estates in Italy.
582 – Maurice becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
900 – Count Reginar I of Hainault rises against Zwentibold of Lotharingia and slays him near present-day Susteren.
1099 – Pope Paschal II succeeds Pope Urban II as the 160th pope.
1516 – The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1532 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
1624 – The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister.
1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
1806 – Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.
1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
1852 – he “Atlantic”, a steamer fishing boat, sinks with 250 people aboard while it crosses Lake Erie from Buffalo to Detroit.
1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1896 – Butch Cassidy and Two Gang Members Rob Montpelier Bank in Montpelier, Idaho.
1898 – Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
1923 – US Steel Corp initiates an 8-hour workday.
1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.
1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
1942 – Walt Disney's fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.
1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West. Soviet troops began placing barbed wire and bricks as a barrier to divide Soviet controlled East Berlin from democratic West Berlin.
1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1977 – Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
1978 – One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
1979 – The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, collapses, killing five workers and injuring 16.
2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida, and devastates the surrounding area.
2004 – One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of St. Lawrence.
Commemoration of SS. Hippolytus and Cassian, Martyrs.
Commemoration of SS. Hippolytus and Cassian, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Benedetto Sinigardi
Cassian of Imola
Hippolytus of Rome
Maximus the Confessor
Pope Pontian
Radegunde
Cassian of Imola
Hippolytus of Rome
Maximus the Confessor
Pope Pontian
Radegunde
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Clara Maass (with Nightingale) (Lutheran Church)
Florence Nightingale, Octavia Hill, Jeremy Taylor (Anglican Communion)
Florence Nightingale, Octavia Hill, Jeremy Taylor (Anglican Communion)
Eastern Orthodox
August 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Apodosis of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
Martyr Hippolytus of Rome, and 18 martyrs with him (258)
including Martyrs Concordia, Irenaeus and Abundius
Martyr Coronatus, by the sword
Saint Eudocia the Empress (460), wife of Theodosius the Younger, in Palestine.
Venerable Seridus, Abbot, of Gaza (ca. 543)
Venerable Abba Dorotheus of Gaza (560-580)
Venerable Dositheos, attendant to Abba Dorotheus of Gaza (6th century)
Saint Pontian, Pope of Rome, was exiled by Emperor Maximinus Thrax
to Sardinia in c 235, where he died from ill-treatment (235)
Saint Cassian of Imola, a martyr who refused to worship idols and suffered
a slow death in Imola in Italy (c. 250)
Saints Centolla and Helen, two virgin-martyrs near Burgos in Spain (c. 304)
Saint Cassian of Todi, Bishop of Todi, martyred under Maximian Herculeus (4th century)
Saint Junian, founder of the monastery of Mairé in Poitou in France and later a hermit in Chaulnay (587)
Saint Radegunde of Poitiers, nun (587)
Saint Muredach (Murtagh, Muiredach), first Bishop of Killala
and founder of Innismurray (6th century)
Saint Wigbert, Abbot of Hersfeld, and English missionary to Germany, Confessor (c. 747)
Saint Herulph, a monk at St Gall in Switzerland, then founded the monastery of Ellwangen (764)
near Augsberg in Germany, later became Bishop of Langres in France (785)
Saint Ludolf, Abbot of New Corvey in Westphalia in Germany from 971 to 983 (983)
Empress Irene (tonsured Xenia), wife of Emperor John II Comnenus (1134)
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Bishop of Voronezh, Wonderworker of Zadonsk (1783
New Hieromartyrs John Shyshev, Ioasph Panov and Constantine Popov, Priests (1918)
New Hieromartyr Benjamin of Petrograd, Metropolitan, and those with him (1921)
New Hieromartyrs Sergius, Archimandrite, and those with him (1921)
New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinsky), Bishop of Dmitrov (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Orlov and Jacob Arkhippov, Priests, and Alexis Vedensky, Deacon, of Yarsoslavl-Rostov (1937)[5][16][20]
New Martyr Basil Aleksandrin (1942)[5][16][20]
Translation of the relics of Venerable Maximus the Confessor (662)
Uncovering of the relics (1547) of St. Maximus of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (1433)
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos:
"Of Minsk" (1500)
"Of the Passion" (1641)
"Of the Seven Arrows" (Vologda) / "The Softener of Evil Hearts" (1830)
Repose of Valaam Schema-monk Timothy of Mt. Athos (1848)
Apodosis of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
Martyr Hippolytus of Rome, and 18 martyrs with him (258)
including Martyrs Concordia, Irenaeus and Abundius
Martyr Coronatus, by the sword
Saint Eudocia the Empress (460), wife of Theodosius the Younger, in Palestine.
Venerable Seridus, Abbot, of Gaza (ca. 543)
Venerable Abba Dorotheus of Gaza (560-580)
Venerable Dositheos, attendant to Abba Dorotheus of Gaza (6th century)
Saint Pontian, Pope of Rome, was exiled by Emperor Maximinus Thrax
to Sardinia in c 235, where he died from ill-treatment (235)
Saint Cassian of Imola, a martyr who refused to worship idols and suffered
a slow death in Imola in Italy (c. 250)
Saints Centolla and Helen, two virgin-martyrs near Burgos in Spain (c. 304)
Saint Cassian of Todi, Bishop of Todi, martyred under Maximian Herculeus (4th century)
Saint Junian, founder of the monastery of Mairé in Poitou in France and later a hermit in Chaulnay (587)
Saint Radegunde of Poitiers, nun (587)
Saint Muredach (Murtagh, Muiredach), first Bishop of Killala
and founder of Innismurray (6th century)
Saint Wigbert, Abbot of Hersfeld, and English missionary to Germany, Confessor (c. 747)
Saint Herulph, a monk at St Gall in Switzerland, then founded the monastery of Ellwangen (764)
near Augsberg in Germany, later became Bishop of Langres in France (785)
Saint Ludolf, Abbot of New Corvey in Westphalia in Germany from 971 to 983 (983)
Empress Irene (tonsured Xenia), wife of Emperor John II Comnenus (1134)
Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Bishop of Voronezh, Wonderworker of Zadonsk (1783
New Hieromartyrs John Shyshev, Ioasph Panov and Constantine Popov, Priests (1918)
New Hieromartyr Benjamin of Petrograd, Metropolitan, and those with him (1921)
New Hieromartyrs Sergius, Archimandrite, and those with him (1921)
New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinsky), Bishop of Dmitrov (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Orlov and Jacob Arkhippov, Priests, and Alexis Vedensky, Deacon, of Yarsoslavl-Rostov (1937)[5][16][20]
New Martyr Basil Aleksandrin (1942)[5][16][20]
Translation of the relics of Venerable Maximus the Confessor (662)
Uncovering of the relics (1547) of St. Maximus of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ (1433)
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos:
"Of Minsk" (1500)
"Of the Passion" (1641)
"Of the Seven Arrows" (Vologda) / "The Softener of Evil Hearts" (1830)
Repose of Valaam Schema-monk Timothy of Mt. Athos (1848)
Coptic Orthodox
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