First ( 1559 ) he married Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin ( 29 August 1540 – 8 March 1578 ).

* August 8 – Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord ( b. 1578 )

On August 4, 1578, while fighting in Morocco, young King Sebastian died in battle without an heir and his body was not found.

He managed to escape nine months later, on 15 August 1578, through a small window in a room adjoining his cell.

The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578.

Alexander Farnese (, ) ( 27 August 1545 – 3 December 1592 ) was Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1586 to 1592, and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592.

John Taylor ( 24 August 1578 – 1653 ) was an English poet who dubbed himself " The Water Poet ".

He was born in Gloucester, 24 August 1578.

Pedro Nunes (; Latin, Petrus Nonius ), ( 1502 – August 11, 1578 ) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, from a New Christian ( of Jewish origin ) family.

Bulacan was established 15 August 1578.

Charles d ' Albert, Duke of Luynes ( 5 August 1578 – Longueville, 15 December 1621 ), was a favourite of Louis XIII who was made a Peer of France and Constable of France before dying at the height of his influence.

On 12 August 1578, the forces of his opponents faced his army at Falkirk, but a truce was negotiated by two Edinburgh ministers, James Lawson and David Lindsay, and the English resident Robert Bowes.

The Battle of Ksar El Kebir, also known as Battle of Three Kings, or " Battle of Oued El Makhazeen " in Morocco, and Battle of Alcácer Quibir in Portugal ( variant spellings are legion: Alcácer-Quivir, Alcazarquivir, Alcassar, meaning grand castle in Arabic ), was fought in northern Morocco, near the town of Ksar-el-Kebir and Larache, on 4 August 1578.

Francesco Albani or Albano ( 17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660 ) was an Italian Baroque painter.

The first Church of England service recorded on British North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578.

– 4 August 1578 ), was the Saadi Sultan of Morocco from 1576 until his death right after the Battle of Ksar El Kebir against Portugal in 1578.

Stukely, Stukeley ) ( c. 1520 – 4 August 1578 ) was an English mercenary who served in combat in France, Ireland, and at the Battle of Lepanto, before his death at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir.

He fought with courage on 4 August 1578 at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir, commanding the centre, but was killed early in the day after a cannon-ball cut off his legs.

Horio Tadauji ( 堀尾 忠氏 ; 1578 – August 8, 1604 )

# Christine ( 19 October 1578 – 19 August 1658 ), married on 14 May 1598 to Duke John Ernst of Saxe-Eisenach

Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller, ( b. Wallerstein, Bavaria, 1578 ; d. Kraków, August 19, 1654 ), was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the Tosafot Yom-Tov ( 1614-7 ).

Ahmad I al-Mansur (, also El-Mansour Eddahbi Golden, ; and Ahmed el-Mansour ) ( 1549 in Fes – 25 August 1603, outskirts of Fes ) was Sultan of the Saadi dynasty from 1578 to his death in 1603, the sixth and most famous of all rulers of the Saadis.

In an engagement at the battle of Rijmenam ( 2 August 1578 ), his men were driven back by 3, 000 troops under the command of John of Austria ( Don Juan de Austria ), the king's brother ; Norreys had three horses shot from under him.

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.

Early in August we broke ground for a new $3,500,000 plant in Warwick, Rhode Island, which will house our textile and coil winding machinery operations.

All Mantle needs is eight more home runs in August and ten in September, and he will establish a new record.

Anthony, as Johann August Wilhelm Neander remarks, " without any conscious design of his own, had become the founder of a new mode of living in common, Coenobitism.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

In August 2005, India revealed its new anti-hijacking policy.

Between June and August 2007, the first east-west crossing of the full new Asian Highway was achieved by Britons Richard Meredith and Phil Colley driving a V8 Vantage.

On 26 August 1944, the Fatherland Front made the decision to incite an armed rebellion against the government, which led to the appointment of a new government on 2 September.

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

The first identification cards were issued to two Bahá ' ís under the new decree on August 8, 2009.

Between August 1945 and December 1951, 1, 016, 349 new homes were completed in England, Scotland, and Wales.

* 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.

In a separate nod to pressure to restore civilian rule, the government organized several committees to compose a new constitution, including the August 2000 National Congress and November 2000 Tripartite Commission.

In August 1982 the real pressing was ready to begin in the new factory, not far from the place where Emile Berliner had produced his first gramophone record 93 years earlier.

The closures will include the new facility that was opened in August 2008 at a cost of US $ 25M, plus the McCauley Propeller Systems plant.

On August 12, 2011, it was confirmed that a new Counter Strike game was in development at Valve Software and Hidden Path Entertainment, which also codevelops Counter-Strike: Source, going under the title Global Offensive.

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

Seeing a chance to gain some leverage, Tramiel immediately used the contract to counter-sue Commodore through its new subsidiary, Amiga, on August 13.

His Holiness Abune Paulos died in August 2012 and transitionally a new pope is elected until an election is made next year.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

In 1996 Weston had been acquitted of the murder of Vikki Thompson at Ascott-under-Wychwood on 12 August 1995, but following the discovery of compelling new evidence in 2009 — Thompson's blood on Weston's boots — he was arrested and tried for a second time.

The new machine, the first outside the PDP-1 mould, was introduced at WESTCON on 11 August 1963.

In August 2012, Steven Barker, Ethan McIlHenny, and Rick Strassman, developed a new method to measure the three known endogenous hallucinogens and their major N-oxide metabolites in blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, ocular fluid and / or other tissues by using state-of-the-art liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry ( LC / MS ) equipment.