His elder brother Henry, who had been in ill health in part due to problems with alcoholism, died on August 1, 1831.

In August 1831 Van Buren was appointed Minister to the Court of St. James's ( ambassador to Great Britain ), and he arrived in London in September.

* 1760 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal ( d. 1831 )

In August 1831, Juan Davis Bradburn the military commander of the custom station on Upper Galveston Bay gave asylum to two men who had escaped from slavery in Louisiana.

* August 15 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist ( b. 1831 )

* August 22 – Xianfeng Emperor, Qing Dynasty the 9th emperor ( b. 1831 )

* August 5 – Philip Sheridan, American general ( b. 1831 )

* August 9 – Charles Cros, French poet ( b. 1831 )

* August 16 – John Stith Pemberton, American founder of Coca-Cola ( b. 1831 )

* August 9 – John Paterson, politician in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly ( b. 1831 )

* August 30 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general ( b. 1831 )

* August 27 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher ( d. 1831 )

* August 17 – Dmitry Senyavin, Russian admiral ( d. 1831 )

* October 27 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal ( d. 1831 )

* Zaïra ( 31 August 1831, Teatro S. Carlo, Naples ) written 1829 for Bellini

# Prince August, Duke of Dalarna ( 1831 – 1873 )

# Maria Amalia of Saxony ( 26 September 1757-20 April 1831 ) married Karl II August of Zweibrücken and had issue.

Nathaniel " Nat " Turner ( October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831 ) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States.

* Ellen Pontifex ( born ca. 1831 ; housemaid of Theobald and Christina ; pregnant by John the coachman & married him 15 August 1851 ; separated ; married bigamously to Ernest late 1850s ; annulled 1862 ).

John Stith Pemberton ( July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888 ) was a Confederate veteran and an American pharmacist, and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola.

Lucy Ware Webb Hayes ( 28 August 1831 – 25 June 1889 ) was a First Lady of the United States and the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

In August 1831, enslaved Nat Turner led a slave rebellion of Black slaves in Southampton County against local Whites.

Nathaniel " Nat " Turner ( October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831 ) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 56 white deaths and over 55 black deaths.

* August 7 – The Japanese Usu volcano erupts.

* August 26 – August 28 – Krakatoa or Krakatau volcano erupts at 10: 02 AM ( local time ); 163 villages are destroyed, 36, 380 killed.

* May to August, 1883: Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupted cataclysmically ; 36, 000 people were killed, the majority being killed by the resulting tsunami.

* August 12 – The volcano Mount Papandayan in West Java erupts and partially collapses, the debris avalanche killing several thousands.

In August 2011, the alert level for the volcano was raised from Level I to Level II after increasing activity was reported in the caldera, including earthquakes and smoke emissions.

* August 7, 2006: The Philippine government ordered the evacuation of about 20, 000 people living near the volcano, stating that an eruption was feared soon.

* August 10, 2006: Scientists in the Philippines renewed warnings of a major explosion at the Mount Mayon volcano, describing a sudden period of quiet as " ominous ".

On August 26, 1883, the British warship Charles Ball sailing the Sunda Strait en-route to Hong Kong came within 20 km of the exploding Krakatau volcano and witnessed a great deal of static electricity in the atmosphere, generated by the movement of tiny particles of rocks and droplets of water from the volcano's steam, which caused spectacular brush discharges taking place from the masts and rigging of the ship.

It is close to the volcano Sinabung, which erupted in August 2010 after a 400 year dormant state.

* August 9 – While on approach to land at El Salvador International Airport in San Salvador, El Salvador, during a thunderstorm, Aviateca Flight 901, a Boeing 737-200, crashes into San Vicente volcano, killing all 65 people on board.

* www. xflo. net, August 2011, Florian Wizorek: Rumbling Rabaul-The raging Cauldron of Tavurvur-detailed photographic portrait of the ( erupting ) volcano, the Rabaul caldera as well as the Gazelle peninsula

Three small ash eruptions occurred at Asama volcano in August 2008.

* On August 9, 1995, at approximately 2014 local time ( 0214 UTC August 10, 1995 ), a Boeing 737-200 ( N125GU ) was destroyed when it collided with the side of the San Vicente ( Chichontepec ) volcano, 15 miles northeast of San Salvador International Airport, San Salvador.

* Mud volcano floods Java, August 2006

Although the volcano has not erupted since 1995, studies conducted between July 1996 and August 2000 recorded some 176 minor earthquakes registering between 0. 1 and 3. 2 on the Richter Scale, occurring on average 2 to 3 times a month.

He believed that the central post could be aligned with a nearby volcano to determine certain dates in February, May, August and November each year.

Like his friend and contemporary August Strindberg he had little patience with collective mediocrity.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

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.

Nevertheless, the king whose health was failing, wanted to secure the ascension of his young son, Ladislaus, who had been crowned on 26 August 1204.

In August 1219, his younger son, Coloman, who had been crowned King of Halych, was expelled from his kingdom by Prince Mstilav of Novgorod.

On 20 August 1233, Andrew had a meeting with the legate of Pope Gregory IX in the woods of Bereg, and they made an agreement which ensured the privileges of the clergy.

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.

Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

The Falcons had their first season in, and their first preseason game on August 1,, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles.

In August 1825, he passed entrance exams at Harvard University, though when the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first two years which he had successfully challenged by examination, he chose not to attend.

The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

On August 28, Nami and Ahmed al-Haznawi reportedly bothered a Delray Beach resident, Maria Siscar Simpson, to let them through her apartment to retrieve a towel that had fallen off their balcony onto hers.

Greek officers, revolting in August 1909, had secured the appointment of a progressive government under Eleftherios Venizelos which they hoped would resolve the Cretan issue in Greece's favour and reverse their defeat of 1897 by the Ottomans.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

Both Brooke and Alexander were astonished by the transformation in atmosphere when they visited on 19 August, less than a week after Montgomery had taken command.

Marshal Tallard, with 34, 000 men, reached Ulm, joining with the Elector and Marsin in Augsburg on 5 August ( although Tallard was not impressed to find that the Elector had dispersed his army in response to Marlborough's campaign of ravaging the region ).

He had not resided there long when an edict appeared ( August 8, 1564 ) banishing all foreign dissidents.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).