The long-lasting sejm convened by Stanisław August in 1788 is known as the Great, or Four-Year Sejm.

In August 1788 the King agreed to convene the Estates-General in May 1789.

Kerung on 20 July 1788 and captured Jhunga on the 3rd of August 1788.

The Battles Nepalese troops, having crossed the Himalayas captured Chhochyang and Kuti in June 1788 and Sikarjong on 3 August 1788, in spite of many difficult logistic limitations.

The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.

Thomas Gainsborough ( christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788 ) was an English portrait and landscape painter.

He died of cancer on 2 August 1788 at the age of 61 and is interred at St. Anne's Church, Kew, Surrey ( located on Kew Green ).

* August 3 – Jakob Walter, stonemason and common draftee ( b. 1788 )

* August 24 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author ( b. 1788 )

* August 23 – Rafael Urdaneta, hero of the Latin American War of Independence ( b. 1788 )

* August 15 – Francesco Zuccarelli, painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1763 ( d. 1788 )

Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788.

On 4 August 1897, a stone and bronze fountain was inaugurated in Grenoble to commemorate the pre-revolutionary events of June 1788.

As a last-ditch attempt to get new monetary reforms approved, Louis XVI convoked the Estates-General on 8 August 1788, setting the date of their opening at 1 May 1789.

Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (; 23 August 1741 – 1788?

Francesco Zuccarelli ( 15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788 ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period.

On 8 July 1788 he became colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards and on 30 August 1788 he was created Baron Amherst of Montreal with a special provision that would allow this title to pass to his nephew ( as Amherst was childless, the Holmesdale title became extinct upon his death ).

Bodies of the dead from the riots in the Place de Grève, the Hôtel de Brienne, and Rue Meslée were put in the catacombs on 28 and 29 August 1788.

On 8 August 1788, the King agreed to hold an Estates General the next year.

After his death, in 1788, she returned to Göttingen, where she became familiar with the poet Gottfried August Burger and the critic of the Romantic school, August Wilhelm Schlegel.

* Ambrós ( Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza ( 31 August 1913 – 30 September 1992 )), a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno ( Captain Thunder ).

In August 1825 Baker was resighted by Captain Obed Starbuck of the Loper, also a Nantucket whaler.

On 5 August, Leander was despatched to Cadiz with messages for Earl St. Vincent carried by Captain Edward Berry.

On 12 August the frigates HMS Emerald under Captain Thomas Moutray Waller, HMS Alcmene under Captain George Johnstone Hope and HMS Bonne Citoyenne under Captain Robert Retalick arrived off Alexandria.

The motive of secret societies is also present in the Karl Grosse's Horrid Mysteries ( 1791-1794 ) and Christian August Vulpius ' Rinaldo Rinaldini, the Robber Captain ( 1797 ).

The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.

* Following his surrender to Captain Frederick Maitland of off Rochefort in 1815, Napoleon was taken to Plymouth Sound where he remained on board, 26 July – 4 August, while his future was decided.

President Massamba-Débat's term ended in August 1968 when Captain Marien Ngouabi and other army officers toppled the government in a coup.

* August 27 – A Heinkel 178, the first turbojet-powered aircraft, flies for the first time with Captain Erich Warsitz in command.

* August 27 – " Captain " Daryl Dragon, American musician ( The Captain and Tennille )

* August 25 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel.

* August 19 – MacGillivray Milne, United States Navy Captain and the 27th Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1959 )

* August 6, 1819 – Norwich University is founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

* August 26 – Uyedineniya Island is discovered in the Kara Sea by Norwegian explorer Captain Edvard Holm Johannesen.

* August 6 – Norwich University is founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

* August – Captain Jope's ship brings the first Africans to what will later be called America.

* August 11 – Captain Francis Light, known as the founder of Penang, lands in Penang and renames it Prince of Wales Island in honour of the heir to the British throne.

* August 2 – Captain Benjamin Church captures Metacomet's wife and son.

* August 12 – King Philip ( Metacomet ), the chief of the Wampanoags that had waged war throughout southern New England in a war that bore his name, is killed by an Indian named Alderman, a soldier led by Captain Benjamin Church.

When Admiral Hermann Boehem sent Raeder a memo in late August saying that the disposition of the German fleet could only made sense if there was no general war, one of Raeder's aides, a Captain Fricke replied with the comment on the margin: " That is precisely the point!

He bought a further promotion to Captain on 2 August 1850.

Captain Gunderson landed at the site on 17 August 1875 and collected a grappling iron, two maps and a handwritten translation of Pet and Jackman's voyages.