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 August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

In August 1859, a long cable was commissioned from Glass, Elliot and Company of Greenwich and laid from Cranstal ( north of Ramsey ) to St Bees in Cumbria using the chartered cable ship Resolute.

He also started a business partnership with John Ellsler, manager of the Cleveland Academy of Music, and another friend, Thomas Mears, to develop oil wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, where an oil boom had started in August 1859, following Edwin Drake's discovery of oil there.

The term morphology was coined by August Schleicher in 1859.

* August 28 – September 2 – The solar storm of 1859, the largest geomagnetic solar storm on record, causes the Northern lights to be visible as far south as Cuba and knocks out telegraph communication.

* August 15 – Florian Cajori, Swiss-born historian of mathematics ( b. 1859 )

* August 22 – Frank Stone, English painter ( d. 1859 )

* August 27 – Childe Hassam, American painter ( b. 1859 )

* August 15 – Thomas de Quincey, English writer ( d. 1859 )

The Austrian premiere took place at the Burgtheater on 19 August 1859 with Róza Csillag as Ortrud.

In March 1859, fearing extradition to Saxony, where he was still considered a fugitive, Wagner moved to Lucerne where he composed the last Act, completing it in August 1859.

Ten years later, on August 20, 1859, the revolutionaries again invaded ( this time the Piedmontese ), annexing Modena into the revolutionary Savoyard nation of Italy as a territorial part of the Kingdom of Italy.

George Bissell, a Yale University Chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling rig on August 28, 1859 near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

They were Moses Shane, who came in 1858, and whose death the next year was the first in the county ; Patrick Doyle, in 1859, for whom Doyle Creek and Township were named, and a family by the name of Welsh, in which occurred the first birth in the county in August 1859.

The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.

Rossville was incorporated as a village in August 1859.

The German Reformed Church was forced to relocate when Their building was destroyed by fire on August 3, 1859.

The original survey of Chillicothe by United States citizens was filed for record August 31, 1837, and a resurvey of the same was filed August 5, 1859.

As population in the area began to decline, Colonel Edwin L. Drake drilled the first commercially successful oil well on August 27, 1859, in nearby Titusville.

The more central Torquay railway station was opened on 2 August 1859 with views of the sea from the platforms.

Writing to Speed on August 24, 1855, Lincoln made the latter point clear.

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

Following his return, Lincoln continued his campaign for the August 6 election for the Illinois General Assembly.

On August 6, 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act that authorized judiciary proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support the Confederate war effort.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.

New York City Opera's production in August 1990 and July 1991 ( total of 18 performances ) won the 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and was telecast on the PBS show " Live at Lincoln Center " on November 7, 1990.

...", from the " I Have a Dream " speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D. C. on August 28, 1963.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy .– Martin Luther King Jr .' s I Have a Dream speech, delivered August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

By the end of August 1861, Grant was given charge of the District of Cairo by Maj. Gen John C. Fremont, an outside Lincoln appointment, who viewed Grant as " a man of dogged persistence, and iron will.

* August 28 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250, 000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

* August 9 – Lincoln Steffens, American journalist ( b. 1866 )

* August 25 – American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.

* August 14 – President Abraham Lincoln meets with a group of prominent African-Americans – the first time an American President had done so.

* August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer ( d. 2010 )

* August 1 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman ( d. 1926 )

In August, the Democratic Party had nominated as its candidate George B. McClellan, the popular former Union army commander, and it had seemed likely that Lincoln would lose to McClellan.

President Lincoln signed two Confiscation Acts into law, the first on August 6, 1861, and the second on July 17, 1862, safeguarding fugitive slaves from the Confederacy that came over into Union lines and giving them indirect emancipation if their masters continued insurrection against the United States.

In August 1862, President Lincoln met with African American leaders and urged them to colonize some place in Central America.

Gary Gordon was born August 30, 1960 in Lincoln, Maine and graduated from Mattanawcook Academy in 1978.

Shughart was born on August 13, 1958 in Lincoln, Nebraska into an Air Force family.

In August 1999, Rialto Pictures re-released the film in the United States, based on the Cinematheque negative found in Toulouse ; after watching the new print at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Janet Maslin called it " beautifully refurbished " and " especially lucid.

Thompson was placed on the National Committee, but gave up the on third party strategy in August and supported Abraham Lincoln so as not to risk a Democratic victory in Indiana.