At a council of churchmen at Westminster on 25 August 1213, to which certain barons were invited, he read the text of the charter of Henry I and called for its renewal.

In 1213, with the aim of strengthening his power in Brittany, king Philip August of France introduced the Capetian prince Peter Mauclerc of Dreux as administrator of the duchy and tutor of his son, duke Jehan of Brittany.

He ruled Egypt for almost ten years between late July or early August 1213 and May 2, 1203 BC, according to contemporary historical records.

* Halfter, P. " Die militärischen Triumphe der Georgier und ein wenig beachtetes Erdbeben an der Grenze Armenisch-Kilikiens ( c. Ende August 1213 )," Le Muséon, 122, 3-4 ( 2009 ), pp. 423-447.

Patrick III, 7th Earl of Dunbar ( c. 1213 – 24 August 1289 ) was lord of the feudal barony of Dunbar and its castle, which dominated East Lothian, and the most important military personage in the Scottish Borders.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

Under this Agreement the first annual review of rice availabilities will be made in August 1960.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

In August while stopping in Greenock, Scotland, three members of the crew on liberty rendered first aid to a girl who fell from a train.

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

* During the first week of August in Sweden, the Medieval Week of Wisby in Gotland is held each year.

* During the first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week.

* The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held the first full week in August each year.

* The Pennsic War, a massive gathering of the Society for Creative Anachronism, takes place about the first week of August every year.

* The first week of August is " Indian Week " for the Penobscot Tribe in Old Town, Maine.

* The first full weekend in August each year, Twinsburg, Ohio, celebrates Twins Days.

** Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated on the first Weekend of August.

** Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August.

* Earliest day on which Civic Holiday can fall ; celebrated on the first Monday of August.

* Earliest day on which Commerce Day, or Frídagur verslunarmanna, can fall ; celebrated on the first Monday of August.

* Earliest day on which International Friendship Day can fall, celebrated on the first Sunday of August.

Augustus (, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD ) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

Benzene, C < sub > 6 </ sub > H < sub > 6 </ sub >, is the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon and was recognized as the first aromatic hydrocarbon, with the nature of its bonding first being recognized by Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz in the 19th century.

Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

* 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time ( Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708 ).

The first official celebration will take place in Wellington in August 2012, with the planting of pohutukawa and Norfolk pines along Thorndon Esplanade.

The Falcons had their first season in, and their first preseason game on August 1,, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles.

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; June 1992: First informal draft of the HTML DTD, with seven subsequent revisions ( July 15, August 6, August 18, November 17, November 19, November 20, November 22 )

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

On August 31, 2007, the Jaguars announced that long time back-up quarterback David Garrard would start for the team, ahead of former first round draft pick, Byron Leftwich who was released in the team's final roster cuts.

Bench was drafted 36th overall by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 1965 amateur draft, playing for the minor-league Buffalo Bisons in the 1966 and 1967 seasons before being called up to the Reds in August 1967.

According to the Council of the League of Nations, meeting of August 1920: " draft mandates adopted by the Allied and Associated Powers would not be definitive until they had been considered and approved by the League ... the legal title held by the mandatory Power must be a double one: one conferred by the Principal Powers and the other conferred by the League of Nations ,"

A national conference held in August 1991 produced a draft constitution ( approved in a referendum January 12, 1992 ), a charter for political parties, and an electoral code.

Lane invited Mather to come to Washington, DC to work with him to draft and see passage of the National Park Service Organic Act, which the 64th United States Congress enacted and which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law on August 25, 1916.

In August 1988, Joe Becker published a draft proposal for an " international / multilingual text character encoding system, tentatively called Unicode ".

On August 9, 1988, in a move that heralded significant change in the NHL, the Oilers traded Gretzky, along with McSorley and Krushelnyski, to the Kings for Carson, Martin Gelinas, $ 15 million in cash, and the Kings ' first-round draft picks in 1989 ( later traded to the New Jersey Devils – New Jersey selected Jason Miller ), 1991 ( Martin Rucinsky ), and 1993 ( Nick Stajduhar ).

* August 9, 1988 – Traded by the Edmonton Oilers, along with Mike Krushelnyski and Marty McSorley, to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, Los Angeles's 1989, 1991 and 1993 first round draft choices, and $ 15, 000, 000.

* On August 9, 1988, in what became the biggest trade in NHL history ( also known as " The Trade Of The Century "), Wayne Gretzky was traded along with teammates Marty McSorley and Mike Krushelnyski from Edmonton to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Martin Gelinas, Jimmy Carson, three first round draft picks, and $ 15 million cash ( approximately $ 18 million CAD in 1988 ).

* August – The Green Corn Rebellion, an uprising by several hundred farmers against the WWI draft, takes place in central Oklahoma.

* August 10 – August 23 – The Herrenchiemsee Convent prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.

* August 8 – As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.

* August 31 – President Johnson signs a law penalizing the burning of draft cards with up to 5 years in prison and a $ 1, 000 fine.

Then, between 27 and 30 August 1865, he took up Parsifal again and made a prose draft of the work ; this contains a fairly brief outline of the plot and a considerable amount of detailed commentary on the characters and themes of the drama.

Wagner had first written of his intention to create a trilogy of operas in the August 1851 draft of " Eine Mittheilung an meine Freunde " ( A Communication to My Friends ), but did not produce any sketches of the plot of Siegmund and Sieglinde until November.

Columbus's second draft, dated August 6, 1985, removed Betsy and featured Dash — an expatriate bar owner working for the Nazis — and the Monkey King as villains.

The draft was prepared at the preliminary Herrenchiemsee convention ( 10 – 23 August 1948 ) on the Herreninsel in the Chiemsee, a lake in southeastern Bavaria.

When Flynn became a naturalised American citizen on 15 August 1942, he also became eligible for the military draft, as the United States had entered World War II eight months earlier.