The Vilnius city walls were built for protection between 1503 and 1522, comprising nine city gates and three towers, and Sigismund August moved his court there in 1544.

* August 24 – Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian artist ( b. 1503 )

* August 4 – Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de ' Medici, Italian patron of the arts ( d. 1503 )

After a wedding by proxy in London, the marriage was confirmed in person on 8 August 1503 at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh.

# Bona ( Avilliana 12 August 1449 – Fossano 17 November 1503 ), married Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan.

After crossing the border at Berwick upon Tweed on 1 August 1503, Margaret was met by the Scottish court at Lamberton.

On the 7 August 1503, Margaret was carried from Dalkeith to Edinburgh on a litter.

On 8 August 1503, the marriage was celebrated in person in Holyrood Abbey.

Christian III ( 12 August 1503 – 1 January 1559 ) reigned as king of Denmark and Norway.

# Christian, the future duke and king ( 12 August 1503 – 1 January 1559 )

* August 14-Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Spanish novelist and poet ( born 1503 )

Finally on 20 August 1503 he concluded a treaty with Sultan Beyazid II that preserved Moldavia's self rule, at the cost of an annual tribute to the Turks.

Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de ' Medici ( August 4, 1463 – May 20, 1503 ), nicknamed the Popolano, was an Italian banker and politician, and the brother of Giovanni il Popolano.

* Canadian Medical Association Journal, Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician — Jansen et al., 10. 1503 / cmaj. 081869, August 2009.

The Battle of Modon took place in August 1500 during the war of 1499 – 1503 between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.

Cesare Borgia, acting as Gonfalonier of the Papal armies, had expelled the Bentivoglio family from Bologna, which they had ruled as a fief, and was well on his way towards establishing a permanent Borgia state in the region when Alexander died on 18 August 1503.

This event was the result of an event in August 1503: James IV, King of Scots, married Margaret Tudor, the eldest daughter of Henry VII of England as a consequence of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace, concluded the previous year which, in theory, ended centuries of English-Scottish rivalry.

Sir George Vernon ( c. 1503 – August 31, 1565 ) had two daughters, Margaret and Dorothy.

Among the significant events organised by Burchard as Ceremoniere were: the visit of Don Federigo de Aragon to Rome ( December 1493 to January 1494 ); the coronation of Alfonso II of Naples ( May 1494 ); the reception of Charles VIII of France in Rome ( November 1494 to February 1495 ); the Papal Embassy to the Emperor Maximilian in Milan ( July – November 1496 ); the Proclamation of the Jubilee ( Christmas 1499 ); the visit of Alexander VI to Piombino ( January – March 1502 ); and obsequies of Pope Alexander VI ( August 1503 ).

With the death of Pope Alexander VI on 18 August 1503, Cesare Borgia lost all his power.

He negotiated James's marriage to Margaret Tudor and was present at the wedding on 8 August 1503.

On August 10, 1503, the expedition stumbled on an uninhabited island off the northeast Brazilian coast that is now called the Fernando de Noronha island.

Oliver King ( c. 1432 – 29 August 1503 ) was a Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Bath and Wells who restored Bath Abbey after 1500.

He died on 29 August 1503.

) 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.