Traditional papal enemies such as the Prefetti di Vico were destroyed, while the Colonna were reduced to obedience after the destruction of their stronghold in Palestrina in August 1436.

In the spring of 1436 Princess Margaret sailed to France and in August Scotland entered the war with James leading a large army to lay siege to the English enclave of Roxburgh Castle.

# Louis of Savoy, Count of Geneva ( Geneva, 5 June 1436 or 1 April 1437 – Château-Monastery de Ripaille, August, 1482 ).

Jacqueline of Wittelsbach (; ) ( 16 August 1401 – 8 October 1436 ) was Duchess of Bavaria-Straubing, Countess of Hainaut and Holland from 1417 to 1432.

* Elisabeth of Austria ( 1436 – 30 August 1505 ) married Casimir IV of Poland ( 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492 ), had issue.

) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.

James Watterson was elected as a council member in 1997, holding that position for 12 years before retiring on August 31, 2009 to pursue artistic " projects and goals ".

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae ( née Davis, July 12, 1917-January 12, 2007 ) and James Millard Hopper ( June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982 ).

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

Finally, on 24 August 1688, James ordered writs to be issued for a general election.

James Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933, to Susie ( née Behlings ) Brown ( August 8, 1916-February 26, 2004 ) and Joseph (" Joe ") Gardner ( March 29, 1911-July 10, 1993 ) ( who changed his surname to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him ).

As Bush lagged in the polls in the weeks preceding the August 1992 Republican National Convention, some Republican strategists ( led by Secretary of State James Baker ) viewed Quayle as a liability to the ticket and pushed for his replacement.

By August 1809, diplomatic relations with Britain deteriorated as minister David Erskine was withdrawn and replaced by " hatchet man " Francis James Jackson ; Madison however, resisted calls for war.

James Watt, FRS, FRSE ( 19 January 173625 August 1819 ) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

James Randi ( born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge ; August 7, 1928 ) is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known for his challenges to paranormal claims and pseudoscience.

James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn PC ( 12 August 1575 – 23 March 1618 ).

James Tiptree, Jr. ( August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987 ) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

In August 1963, he participated in the March on Washington along with fellow celebrities Harry Belafonte, James Garner, Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster, and Sidney Poitier.

Herbert, along with James Gordon Bennett and August Belmont financed the original New York Polo Grounds .. H. L.

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In this book, the son claims that James Chalmers first produced an essay describing and advocating a stamp in August 1834.

Scene in Plymouth Sound in August 1815 by John James Chalon | J. J. Chalon, oil on canvas

* James Hankins, " Exclusivist Republicanism and the Non-Monarchical Republic ," Political Theory 38. 4 ( August 2010 ), 452-482.

Sophia, a granddaughter of James VI and I, died less than two months before she would have become queen ; her claim to the thrones passed on to her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 Old Style.

He married Berthe Sadie Delmont, known as Toots, on 12 August 1936, and her father Joseph Delmont, a wealthy Johannesburg businessman, bought a salon for James.

* Declaration of Independence of Quito, proclaimed independence from Spain on August 10, 1809, but failed with the execution of all the conspirators of the movement on August 2, 1810.

Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

Kamenev, Trotsky's brother-in-law, was added to the editorial board from the Bolsheviks, but the unification attempts failed in August 1910 when Kamenev resigned from the board amid mutual recriminations.

" Clink ", an essay describing his failed attempt to get sent to prison, appeared in the August 1932 number of Adelphi.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

:* Battle of Utoy Creek, August 5 – 7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line into Atlanta from the east, heavy Union losses.

It failed but in August 1840, Prince Louis Napoleon tried another coup at Boulogne with hired soldiers.

In August 1939, after Stalin's attempts to establish an Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance failed, Stalin entered into a pact with Nazi Germany that divided their influence in Eastern Europe and allowed the USSR to regain some of its lost territories.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Lev Kamenev, Trotsky's brother-in-law, was added to the editorial board from the Bolsheviks, but the unification attempts failed in August 1910 when Kamenev resigned from the board amid mutual recriminations.

After an unsuccessful pro-Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, Trotsky was arrested on 7 August 1917, but was released 40 days later in the aftermath of the failed counter-revolutionary uprising by Lavr Kornilov.

An attempt to strengthen executive powers in 1926 ( through the August Amendment ) proved too limited and largely failed in helping avoid legislative grid-lock which had ensued as a result of too-great parliamentary power in a state which had numerus diametrically-opposed political parties sitting in its legislature.

Jonathan Sánchez, who had been ridiculed in August when he failed to make good a boast that the Giants would sweep the Padres, led the September charge with a 3 – 1 record and 1. 17 ERA, and took the win in the clincher.

* On August 8, 1975 the Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, failed after a freak typhoon ; over 200, 000 people perished.

A coup attempt by hard-liners in August 1991 failed, marking the effective end of the Soviet Union.

* August 30 – Attempted raising of a 15-tonne section of the RMS Titanic failed as 1, 700 spectators, including survivors of the wreck watched.

* August 22 – A failed assassination attempt is made against French President Charles De Gaulle.

As the capital of an Axis country and a major transit point for Axis troops en route to the Eastern Front, Bucharest suffered heavy damage during World War II due to Allied bombings, and, on 23 August 1944, was the site of the royal coup which brought Romania into the Allied camp, suffering a short period of Luftwaffe bombings as well as a failed attempt by German troops to take the city by force.

They were not arrested and neither did Henry confiscate their lands, but he failed to help them when they sought his advice in August 1171.

Symbolically, the Memorial to the Victims of the Gulag ( a simple stone from Solovki ) was erected beside the Iron Felix and the latter was removed in August 1991, after the failed rebellion of hard-line Communist members of government.

When he failed to appear, the electors meeting at Lahneck Castle declared him deposed on 20 August 1400 on account of " futility, idleness, neglicence and ignobility ".

After a failed first invasion into Bohemia, Otto II marched to Bohemia a second time in August 977.

In the battle of the Lisaine, Bourbaki's men failed to break through German lines commanded by General August von Werder.

Most of the smaller attacks failed to hold ground, although XVIII had a success on 19 August.