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.

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 )

In August 1859 Lincoln at the behest of M & M attorney Norman Judd traveled to Council Bluffs to inspect M & M facilities that were to be used to secure a $ 3, 000 loan Lincoln was to hold.

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.

On 17 August 2008 club chairman and owner Franco Sensi died after a long illness ; his place at the chairmanship of the club was successively taken by his daughter Rosella.

However, four seasons can be distinguished: the long dry season ( June – August ), the short wet season ( September – November ), the short dry season ( December – January ), and the long wet season ( February – May ).

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

After a long history as proprietary software, it was released as free software on 6 August 2012, under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

He died in Nuenen on August 6, 2002 after a long struggle with cancer.

The summer days are relatively long and May to August is the driest period.

On 24 August The Sun newspaper republished photographs in Britain, after a " long and hard " consideration.

The country's long summer reaches a peak during August.

On August 31, 2007, the Jaguars announced that long time back-up quarterback David Garrard would start for the team, ahead of former first round draft pick, Byron Leftwich who was released in the team's final roster cuts.

On 24 August 2011, Marcus Atkinson, a local Loch Ness boat skipper, photographed a sonar image of a long 5 ft wide unidentified object which was apparently following his boat for two minutes at a depth of 75 ft. Atkinson ruled out the possibility of any small fish or seal being what he believed to be the Loch Ness Monster.

By the end of August, relations improved again as the countries had redrawn the Hungarian and Romanian borders, settled some Bulgarian claims and Stalin was again convinced that Germany would face a long war in the west with Britain's improvement in its air battle with Germany and the execution of an agreement between the United States and Britain regarding destroyers and bases.

The 1644 conclave for the election of a successor to Urban VIII was long and stormy, lasting from 9 August to 15 September.

Innocent XI died after a long period of ill health on 12 August 1689.

Ending a long history of one-party Marxist rule, a specific agenda for this transition was laid out during Congo's national conference of 1991 and culminated in August 1992 with multi-party parliamentary and presidential elections.

Ruby 1. 8 was initially released in August 2003, and was stable for a long time.

His long stay in Paris between January and August 1925 was an attempt to escape his illness through a change in location and living conditions.

Those of a more traditional bent may prefer the Guinness record for slinging a stone:, using a long sling and a ovoid stone, set by Larry Bray in Loa, Utah, USA on 21 August 1981.

In an August 2011 video documentary on the relative battery life of the 3DS and Game Gear, GigaBoots. com documents that their Game Gear, Model 2110g ( 2nd Revision ), lasted 7 hours and 26 minutes on 6 regular Duracell AA batteries ; this unexpectedly long battery life led them to speculate that battery technology must have improved since the Game Gear was launched.

Not long after the completion of both wings, the Capitol was partially burned by the British on August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812.

* Francis ' Coyote ' Shivers, former husband of Bebe Buell and Pauley Perrette, deemed a Vexatious Litigant on August 27, 2008 by The Superior Court of Los Angeles County during a long ongoing trial between himself and Perrette.

But as January, March, May, July, August, October and December have 31 days, the week after the state rest day of the 30th was seven days long ( 31st – 7th ).

Mandela emerged as a leading opponent of the white minority rule government during the later years of her husband's long imprisonment ( August 1963 – February 1990 ).

In 1909, a walrus hide weighing was collected from an enormous bull in Franz Josef Land, while in August 1910, Jack Woodson shot a long walrus, harvesting its hide.