Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

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

* August 24 – Thomas Blood, thief of the English Crown Jewels ( b. 1618 )

On April 23, 1618, Velázquez married Juana Pacheco ( June 1, 1602 – August 10, 1660 ), the daughter of his teacher.

Both Van Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius had been in fact been imprisoned since 29 August 1618.

The Battle of Lens ( 20 August 1648 ) was a French victory under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé against the Spanish army under Archduke Leopold in the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ).

* August 26-Barten Holyday's allegorical play Technogamia, originally produced at Christ Church, Oxford in 1618, is staged before King James at Woodstock Palace.

In August 1618 his father died and Carew entered the service of Edward Herbert, Baron Herbert of Cherbury, in whose train he travelled to France in March 1619, and it is believed that he remained with Herbert until his return to England, at the close of his diplomatic missions, in April 1624.

Colonel Thomas Blood ( 1618 – 24 August 1680 ) was an Irish colonel best known for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671.

While Emperor Ferdinand was occupied with the Bohemian rebellion of 1618, Bethlen led his armies into Royal Hungary in August 1619 and occupied the town of Kassa ( Košice ) in September, where his Protestant supporters declared him " head " of Hungary and protector of the Protestants.

In August 1618, the harbour was visited by John Tradescant the elder, who conducted a survey of an island situated opposite the monastery.

On 28 August 1618, however, the States-General passed a secret resolution to authorize Maurice to arrest Oldenbarnevelt, Grotius, Ledenberg and Rombout Hogerbeets.

His pursued his professional studies first at New Inn, afterwards at the Middle Temple, where he was admitted on 2 March 1593, called to the bar in August 1600, elected bencher in Hilary term 1618 – 19, and reader in the following August.

Christopher Love ( 1618 – 22 August 1651 ) was a Welsh Protestant preacher and advocate of Presbyterianism at the time of the English Civil War.

Tabarin was the street name assumed by the most famous of the Parisian street charlatans, Anthoine Girard ( c. 1584 – August 16, 1633 ), who amused his audiences in the Place Dauphine by farcical dialogue with his brother Philippe ( as Mondor ), with whom he reaped a golden harvest by the sale of quack medicines for several years after 1618.

* Sir George Villiers, 25 July 1616 – 8 November 1619 ( created Viscount Villiers 27 August 1616, Earl of Buckingham 5 January 1617 and Marquess of Buckingham 1 January 1618 )

Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero ( March 16, 1585 – August 23, 1618 ) was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.

He may have been the Henry Marten admitted to Gray's Inn in August 1618 and was certainly admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1619.

His health was still failing, and after trying in 1618 the waters of Newenham Mills in Warwickshire, he returned to Spa, where he died suddenly on 10 August 1621.

* Thomas Blood, Colonel Thomas Blood ( 1618 – 24 August 1680 ) was an Irish colonel best known for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671.

He was in attendance on James I in a progress in Wiltshire in 1618, and on 2 August was created Earl of Devonshire, while the court was staying at the Bishop of Salisbury's palace ; he was reported to have paid £ 10, 000 for the title.

* Magdalene ( b. & d. 9 August 1618 )

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

In August of 1334 Stefan Dusan and Andronikos made peace, and the forces of Andronikos were allowed to retake control of those parts of Macedonia that Syrgiannes had captured.

* Contestado War ( 1912-1916 ): Was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916.

On 23 August 1944, Romania quit the Axis Powers and declared war on Germany, and allowed Soviet forces to cross its territory to reach Bulgaria.

On 9 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces began to cross to the north bank of the Danube.

" By a series of brilliant marches Marlborough concentrated his forces on Donauwörth and, by noon 11 August, the link-up was complete.

During 11 August, Tallard pushed forward from the river crossings at Dillingen ; by 12 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces were encamped behind the small river Nebel near the village of Blenheim on the plain of Höchstädt.

The position of the forces at noon, 13 August.

The first clashes took place on 2 August, but little action took place for several days, as the King waited for all his forces to arrive and Essex waited for the fleet.

In August 1944 at Mortain, stout defense and counterattacks against the German flanks by American and Canadian forces closed the Falaise pocket.

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

The Executive Order was amended by President John F. Kennedy, per Executive Order 11046 dated 24 August 1962, to expand the authorization to include those serving with friendly forces.

He personally pushed through the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942, ( which some among the Allied forces, notably Field Marshal Montgomery, later claimed was ill-conceived from the start ).

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

A second attempt by Rommel to bypass or break the Commonwealth position was repulsed in the Battle of Alam Halfa in August, and in October the Eighth Army decisively defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.

* 1462 20 August – Castilian forces captured Gibraltar ( Eighth Siege of Gibraltar ).

In the town, the Marine brigade, still under the command of the British admiral Sir John Leake, and the governor, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt ( who had commanded the land forces in August ), and reinforced shortly before by a further 400 Royal Marines, held the fortress against repeated attacks.

The EU ended its mission to reform the country's security forces, EU SSR Guinea-Bissau, on 4 August 2010, a risk that may further embolden powerful generals and drug traffickers in the army and elsewhere.

Sixteen young, blindfolded Yugoslav Partisans await execution by German forces in Serbia, 20 August 1941

Britain sent a short-lived ground support force to Portugal, and French forces evacuated Portugal as defined in the Convention of Sintra following the Allied victory at Vimeiro ( 21 August 1808 ).

On 6 June 1944 the Allies landed in Normandy ; on 15 August Allied forces landing in Provence included 260, 000 men of the French First Army.

The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.