The English Civil War, 1642 – 1645, led to an expansion of the gunpowder industry, with the repeal of the Royal Patent in August 1641.

On 15 August 1642, with eight men, his mother and maids, he held out against Princes Rupert and Maurice with 18 troops of horses and dragoons.

* August 14 – William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island ( d. 1642 )

In the English Civil War the town supported the parliamentary side, although Shepton appears to have mostly escaped conflict apart from a bloodless confrontation between supporters of the King, led by Sir Ralph Hopton, and Parliament, led by Colonel William Strode, in the market place on 1 August 1642.

) ( Antwerp, 11 ( or 21 ) August 1583, – Amsterdam, 23 December 1651, ) was a Flemish / Dutch merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company from 1622 to 1629 and again from 1636 to 1642.

On 22 August 1642, Charles raised his standard at Nottingham Castle.

In August 1642, Rupert, along with his brother Prince Maurice and a number of professional soldiers, ran the gauntlet across the sea from the United Provinces, and after one initial failure, evaded the pro-Parliamentary navy and landed in Newcastle.

Robert Greville was a Parliamentarian, and on 7 August 1642 a Royalist force laid siege to the castle.

The siege was lifted on 23 August 1642 when the garrison was relieved by the forces of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and the Royalists were forced to retreat to Worcester.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, having succeeded his father in the earldom in November 1642, Manchester commanded a regiment in the army of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and in August 1643 he was appointed Major-General of the parliamentary forces in the eastern counties ( the Eastern Association ), with Cromwell as his second in command.

On 23 August 1642, a skirmish took place outside of the town between Parliamentary forces led by Lord Brooke and Royalist forces commanded by the Earl of Northampton.

Herbert had barely gained the official position of master in 1641 when the theatres were closed at the start of the English Civil War in August 1642.

Painting by Henry Dawson ( artist ) | Henry Dawson 1847 of King Charles I raising his standard at Nottingham Castle 24 August 1642

At the start of the Civil War, in August 1642, Charles I chose Nottingham as the rallying point for his armies, but soon after he departed, the castle rock was made defensible and held by the parliamentarians.

Visscher mapped out three different routes and van Diemen decided in August 1642 to send Abel Janszoon Tasman, accompanied by Visscher, in search of the Great South Land, which Tasman would soon dub " Nieuw Holland ".

He gives an account of the opening incidents of the war in letters written to friends from Chelsea in July and August 1642.

The arrival of 400 armed men from Birmingham was decisive in securing Coventry's refusal to admit Charles I in August 1642, which established Warwickshire as a Parliamentarian stronghold.

The cannon were withdrawn on 10 August 1642 and with the barricade held by as few as eight men the parliamentarian forces were able to cross the creek two days latter.

Cromwell first mustered a troop of cavalry ( then referred to as " horse ") at Huntingdon in Huntingdonshire, on 29 August 1642, early in the Civil War.

Saskia van Uylenburgh ( August 2, 1612, Leeuwarden, Friesland – June 14, 1642 in Amsterdam ) was the daughter of a Frisian mayor.

The Wrottesley Baronetcy, of Wrottesley in the County of Stafford, was created in the Baronetage of England on 30 August 1642 for Walter Wrottesley.

Guido Reni ( 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642 ) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.

He received successive promotions, being promoted to commander of 12, 000 foot and 7, 000 horse on 20 March 1636 ( roughly equivalent to lieutenant general ), to 15, 000 foot and 9, 000 horse on 24 August 1637, to 10, 000 horse on 19 March 1638, to 20, 000 foot and 10, 000 horse on 24 January 1639, and to 15, 000 horse on 21 January 1642.

On 25 August 1642 he appeared at the bar of the House of Commons to deliver the king's final proposals for peace, and was afterwards present at the Battle of Edgehill, where he took part in Prince Rupert's charge and opposed the retreat of the king's forces from the battlefield.

* August 15-The first empty revenue Chicago and North Western Railway coal train enters the Powder River Basin to pick up a trainload of coal ; the first consignment is destined for Arkansas Power and Light.

Similarly, Samuel Pepys in his diary entry for 15 August 1665 records a dream " that I had my Lady Castlemayne in my arms and was admitted to use all the dalliance I desired with her, and then dreamt that this could not be awake, but that it was only a dream ".

This agreement was a success, and in August 2001 3, 500 NATO soldiers conducted " Operations Essential Harvest " to retrieve the arms.

* August 23 – The following universal conscription decree is enacted in France: " The young men shall go to battle and the married men shall forge arms.

On August 5, 1772, the occupation manifesto was issued, much to the consternation of a country too exhausted by the endeavors of the Confederation of Bar to offer successful resistance ; nonetheless several battles and sieges took place, as Polish troops refused to lay down their arms ( most notably, in Tyniec, Częstochowa and Kraków ).

By an ordinance of Louis Philippe I of France of 13 August 1830, it was decided that the king's children ( and his sister ) would continue to bear the arms of Orléans, that Louis-Philippe's eldest son, as Prince Royal, would bear the title of duc d ' Orléans, that the younger sons would continue to have their existing titles, and that the sister and daughters of the king would only be styled " princesses d ' Orléans ", which meant the Orléans royalty did not take the name " of France ".

On Wednesday, August 13, Tate was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, with her son, Paul Richard Polanski ( named posthumously for Polanski's and Tate's fathers ), in her arms.

Probably John's most notable feat of arms occurred in August – December 1373, when he attempted to relieve Aquitaine by the landward route, leading an army of some 9, 000 mounted men from Calais on a great chevauchée from north-eastern to south-western France on a 900 kilometer raid.

The 1935 act, signed on August 31, 1935, imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war.

Italy officially laid down its arms on August 12.

The first arms delivery via the trail, a few dozen rifles, was completed in August 1959.

August hoped the master Gardel would accept him but Gardel's studio was no longer in existence and he was directed to Auguste Vestris for training in his weakest areas — " balance, pirouettes, and arms.

Cromwell meanwhile, leaving George Monck with the least efficient regiments to carry on the war in Scotland, had reached the river Tyne in seven days, and thence, marching 20 miles a day in extreme heat with the country people carrying their arms and equipment the regulars entered Ferrybridge on 19 August, at which date Lambert, Harrison and the north-western militia were about Congleton.

On 27 August 2004 he was found guilty in Zimbabwe of purchasing arms, allegedly for use in the plot ( he admitted trying to procure dangerous weapons, but said that they were to guard a diamond mine in DR Congo ).

On August 29 Margaret wrote a somewhat panicked letter to Philip, " claiming that half the population were infected with heresy, and that over 200, 000 people were up in arms against her authority ".

The college arms are those of Cardinal Wolsey and were granted to him by the College of Arms on 4 August 1525.

For countries which have signed the " Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts " ( Protocol I ), combatants who do not wear a distinguishing mark still qualify as prisoners of war if they carry arms openly during military engagements, and while visible to the enemy when they are deploying to conduct an attack against them.

On 1 August 1917, Benedict issued a seven point peace plan stating that: ( 1 ) " the moral force of right ... be substituted for the material force of arms ," ( 2 ) there must be " simultaneous and reciprocal diminution of armaments ," ( 3 ) a mechanism for " international arbitration " must be established ," ( 4 ) " true liberty and common rights over the sea " should exist, ( 5 ) there should be a " renunciation of war indemnities ," ( 6 ) occupied territories should be evacuated, and ( 7 ) there should be " an examination ... of rival claims.

In August 1995 Clinton vetoed legislation to lift the arms embargo.

In 2006, the company decided to demerge the retail and news distribution arms of the business into two separate companies: W H Smith plc ( retail ) and Smiths News plc ( newspaper and magazine distribution ): the demerger took effect on 30 August 2006.

Following Rin Tin Tin's death in August 1932 in Los Angeles ( in the arms of actress Jean Harlow, according to Hollywood legend ), his owner arranged to have the dog returned to his country of birth for burial in the Cimetière des Chiens, the renowned pet cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine.

The coat of arms was granted on 9 August 1957.

* August 26, 1994 Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms.

Perhaps one of the best-known pictures printed in the magazine was Alfred Eisenstaedt ’ s photograph of a nurse in a sailor ’ s arms, snapped on August 27, 1945, as they celebrated VJ Day in New York City.

Due reportedly to uncertainty concerning the legal validity of grants of arms in the Republic of Ireland, the post of Chief Herald remained vacant from September 2003 until August 2005.