1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1183 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1288 – Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel.
1352 – War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1370 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him.
1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
1480 – Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam; they are later honored in the Church.
1592 – Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin and Won Kyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu, at Hansan Island.
1598 – Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1720 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
1848 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1880 – Confederate troops under the command of General Edmund Kirby Smith began an invasion of Kentucky, with the purpose of drawing away the Union army of General Don Carlos Buell from the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
1912 – 2,500 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier. The U.S. remained there until 1925,
1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
1916 – Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I.
1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2).
1935 – As part of his “New Deal” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter after a secret meeting in Newfoundland. Issued months before the US entered the war, the charter established goals for a post-WWII world.
1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
1945 – The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1966 – The first U.S. lunar orbiter begins orbiting the moon.
1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
1971 – Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
1972 – An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 – The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
1974 – The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Around 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
2006 – Chencholai bombing: Sixty-one Sri Lankan Tamils are killed in a Sri Lankan Air force bombing.
2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
2015 – The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when United States-Cuba relations fell.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of St. Lawrence.
Commemoration of the Eve of the Assumption.
Commemoration of St. Eusebius, Confessor.
Commemoration of the Eve of the Assumption.
Commemoration of St. Eusebius, Confessor.
Contemporary Western
Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia
Martyrs of Otranto
Maximilian Kolbe
Martyrs of Otranto
Maximilian Kolbe
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
Kaj Munk (with Kolbe, Lutheran Church)
Kaj Munk (with Kolbe, Lutheran Church)
Eastern Orthodox
August 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Forefeast of the Dormition of the Mother of God
Prophet Micah (8th century BC)
Martyr Tarcisius, at Rome, under Valerian and Gallienus (c. 253-260)
Martyr Ursicius, at Illyricum (305- 313)
Martyr Luke the Soldier, by fire
Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea (389)
Saint Eusebius of Rome, a priest in Rome who founded the 'church' called
the titulis Eusebii after him (4th century)
Saint Fachanan, Abbot of Rosscarbery, Cork, Ireland (c. 600)
Saint Werenfrid, born in England, he worked with St Willibrord
among the Frisians in the Netherlands (c. 760)
Saint Eberhard of Einsiedeln Abbey (958)
Saint Anastasius (Anastaz-Astrik), Archbishop of Esztergom (c. 1007)
New Martyr Symeon of Trebizond, at Constantinople (1653)
New Hieromartyr Basil (Bogoyavlensky), Archbishop of Chernigov, and with him:
New Monkmartyr Matthew (Pomerantsev), Archimandrite, of Perm, and
New Martyr Alexei Zverev (1918)
New Hieromartyr Vladimir Tsedrinsky, Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Nazarius, Metropolitan of Kutaisi, Georgia, and with him:
Priests Herman, Hierotheus, and Simon, and
Archdeacon Bessarion (1924)
Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Georgia ("New Martyrs of the Georgian Church"),
who suffered under the Atheist Yoke (20th century)
New Hieromartyrs Vladimir Smirnov and Nicholas Tolgsky, Priests (1937)
Virgin-Martyr Eudokia, nun, and Martyr Theodore Zakharov (1937)
New Hieromartyr Eleutherius (Pechennikov), Schema-Archimandrite,
of the Holy Trinity Monastery (Smolensk) (1937)
New Martyr Eva (Pavlova), Abbess of Holy Trinity Convent in Penza (Saratov) (1937)
Venerable New Hiero-Confessor Alexander (Urodov), Archimandrite,
of Sanaxar and Seven Lakes Monasteries (1961)
Forefeast of the Dormition of the Mother of God
Prophet Micah (8th century BC)
Martyr Tarcisius, at Rome, under Valerian and Gallienus (c. 253-260)
Martyr Ursicius, at Illyricum (305- 313)
Martyr Luke the Soldier, by fire
Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea (389)
Saint Eusebius of Rome, a priest in Rome who founded the 'church' called
the titulis Eusebii after him (4th century)
Saint Fachanan, Abbot of Rosscarbery, Cork, Ireland (c. 600)
Saint Werenfrid, born in England, he worked with St Willibrord
among the Frisians in the Netherlands (c. 760)
Saint Eberhard of Einsiedeln Abbey (958)
Saint Anastasius (Anastaz-Astrik), Archbishop of Esztergom (c. 1007)
New Martyr Symeon of Trebizond, at Constantinople (1653)
New Hieromartyr Basil (Bogoyavlensky), Archbishop of Chernigov, and with him:
New Monkmartyr Matthew (Pomerantsev), Archimandrite, of Perm, and
New Martyr Alexei Zverev (1918)
New Hieromartyr Vladimir Tsedrinsky, Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Nazarius, Metropolitan of Kutaisi, Georgia, and with him:
Priests Herman, Hierotheus, and Simon, and
Archdeacon Bessarion (1924)
Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Georgia ("New Martyrs of the Georgian Church"),
who suffered under the Atheist Yoke (20th century)
New Hieromartyrs Vladimir Smirnov and Nicholas Tolgsky, Priests (1937)
Virgin-Martyr Eudokia, nun, and Martyr Theodore Zakharov (1937)
New Hieromartyr Eleutherius (Pechennikov), Schema-Archimandrite,
of the Holy Trinity Monastery (Smolensk) (1937)
New Martyr Eva (Pavlova), Abbess of Holy Trinity Convent in Penza (Saratov) (1937)
Venerable New Hiero-Confessor Alexander (Urodov), Archimandrite,
of Sanaxar and Seven Lakes Monasteries (1961)
Translation of the True Cross back to the Palace
Translation of the relics (1091) of Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, Abbot (1074)
Translation of the relics (1798) of Venerable Arcadius, monk of Novotorzhok (1077)
Commemoration of the disciples of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk:
Monks Theophanes, Aaron, Nicander, Cosmas, and Metrophanes (18th-19th centuries)
Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius (Makkos) of Bethany (1991)
Icon of the Mother of God "the Converser" (1383)
Icon of the Mother of God of Narva (1558)
Translation of the relics (1091) of Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, Abbot (1074)
Translation of the relics (1798) of Venerable Arcadius, monk of Novotorzhok (1077)
Commemoration of the disciples of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk:
Monks Theophanes, Aaron, Nicander, Cosmas, and Metrophanes (18th-19th centuries)
Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius (Makkos) of Bethany (1991)
Icon of the Mother of God "the Converser" (1383)
Icon of the Mother of God of Narva (1558)
Coptic Orthodox
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