At the end of August 1756, having learned that Austria was negotiating to enlist Russia against him, Frederick II invaded Saxony without a declaration of war.

Boone returned home after the defeat, and on August 14, 1756, he married Rebecca Bryan, a neighbor in the Yadkin Valley whose brother married one of Boone's sisters.

On August 25, 1756 the king issued a document permitting Classen to call the town " Friederichswerk ".

Pierre Laromiguière ( 3 November 1756 – 12 August 1837 ) was a French philosopher.

# Elizabeth Grenville ( 24 October 1756 – 21 December 1842 ), who married the 1st Earl of Carysfort ( 12 August 1751 – 7 April 1828 ) on 12 April 1787 and had three daughters.

John Henley ( 3 August 1692 – 13 October 1756 ), English clergyman, commonly known as ' Orator Henley ', was a preacher known for showmanship and eccentricity.

Pierre Louis Prieur ( Prieur de la Marne ) ( 1 August 1756 – 31 May 1827 ) was a French lawyer elected to the Estates-General of 1789.

British forces were forced to surrender on August 15, 1756.

* Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton ( 24 July 1756 – 2 August 1799 )

His expedition against Fort Niagara got no further than the final staging point at Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario in 1755, and the French captured Oswego in August 1756.

* August 19 – Vincenzo Righini, composer, singer and kapellmeister ( b. 1756 )

* August 26 – Daniel Gottlob Türk, composer, organist and music professor ( b. 1756 )

James Gillray ( 13 August 1756 or 1757 – 1 June 1815 ), was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810.

The accession of Russia to the anti-Prussian coalition ( 1756 ) of the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) occurred over Bestuzhev's head, and the cowardice and incapacity of his friend, the Russian commander-in-chief, Stephen Apraksin, after winning the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf ( 30 August 1757 ), became the pretext for overthrowing the chancellor.

In August 1755 he followed Keppel to the Swiftsure, and in January 1756 to the Torbay, in which he continued till his promotion to commander's rank on 21 September 1759, and during this time was present in the expedition to Basque Roads in 1757, at the reduction of Gorée in 1758, and in the blockade of Brest in 1759, up to within two months of the battle of Quiberon Bay, from which his promotion just excluded him.

When news of the fall of Calcutta broke in Madras on 16 August 1756, the Council immediately sent out an expeditionary force under Colonel Clive and Admiral Watson.

Being a believer in the pre-emptive strike, on 29 August 1756 Frederick invaded Saxony with the bulk of the Prussian army, against the advice of his British allies.

File: August III the Saxon in Polish costume. PNG | King Augustus III of Poland in a white żupan, c. 1756

# Lady Mary Isabella Somerset ( 1 August 1756 – 2 September 1831 ), married Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland on 26 December 1775 and had issue

First performed at the: en: Foire Saint-Laurent | Foire Saint-Laurent on 19 August, 1756, it was produced numerous times with music by different composers and became one of the most performed: en: opéra comique | comic operas in the latter half of the 18th century. Meanwhile he had done his best to repair his deficiencies of education, and in 1750 he published a Recueil de pièces fugitives, which included fables, songs and pastorals.

By 28 November 1778, he had returned to St George's, Hanover Square, London, where he married Anne Breynton ( 1756 – 15 August 1829 ), the daughter of the famous minister in Nova Scotia, Rev Dr John Breynton ( 1719 – 1799 ).

In early August 1756, the Lenape used the path to burn Fort Granville near present-day Lewistown and take prisoners.

* 13 April 1756 – 2 August 1772 His Serene Highness The Duke of Enghien

Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.

After Arnulf's birth, Carloman married, before 861, a daughter of that same Count Ernst, who died after 8 August 879.

He was married to Swedish actress Pernilla August from 1991 to 1997.

On August 9, 1973, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Berenson married her Remember My Name costar Anthony Perkins.

They married in Lubbock on August 15, 1958, less than two months later.

He married Helen Leech ( 1839 – 1932 ), the daughter of another wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge, at Gee Cross on 8 August 1863.

In August 1997, Charles married his second wife, Jackie, with whom he has two daughters Anna-Jo ( born 1997 ) and Nellie ( born 2003 ).

DeMille married Constance Adams on August 16, 1902 and had one child, Cecilia.

Jones married for a third time, on 30 August 2009, to Jessica Pacheco, 32 years his junior.

Mary Catherine Williams and Elias Boudinot, Sr. were married on August 8, 1729.

On 28 August 1924 Blyton married Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO ( 1888 – 1971 ), editor of the book department in the publishing firm of George Newnes, which published two of her books that year.

In August 1827, against his mother's wishes, he married Rosina Doyle Wheeler ( 1802 – 1882 ), a famous Irish beauty.

In August 1926, Hayek married Helen Berta Maria von Fritsch, a secretary at the civil service office where Hayek worked.

His first wife died in 1845, and on 16 August 1846, he married Olympe Pélissier, who had sat for Vernet for his picture of Judith and Holofernes.

Lineker married Michelle Cockayne in 1986, but they divorced in August 2006.

Because his leave was coming to an end very soon, they married quickly on 16 August at St Jude's Church, Kensington, and then honeymooned in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, before heading via France to Malaya.

They were married on 4 May 1836 and Margherita gave birth to two children, Virginia Maria Luigia ( 26 March 1837 – 12 August 1838 ) and Icilio Romano ( 11 July 1838 – 22 October 1839 ).

Their cohabitation before marriage was regarded as scandalous in some of the places they lived, but Verdi and Giuseppina married on 29 August 1859 at Collonges-sous-Salève, near Geneva.

On 28 August 1714 he married his second wife, Maria Catharina Textor, daughter of a council clerk.

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

# Johann ( b. Dresden, 24 August 1498 – d. Dresden, 11 January 1537 ), Hereditary Duke of Saxony ; married on 20 May 1516 to Elizabeth of Hesse.

They were married in July 1928, and their only child, Gudrun, was born on 8 August 1929.

Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Lemuel Shaw, on August 4, 1847 ; the couple honeymooned in Canada.

* Federico II, Duke of Mantua ( 17 May 1500 – 28 August 1540 ), married Margaret Paleologa, by whom he had issue.

On 9 August 1982, Rau married the political scientist, Christina Delius ( born 1956 ).