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

* 25 August 1882 — Britain takes control of the canal.

* August 15 – Artur Schnabel, Austrian-born Jewish classical pianist ( b. 1882 )

* August 10 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist ( b. 1882 )

* August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter ( b. 1882 )

* August 20 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1882 )

* August 24 – Mykolas Biržiška, Lithuanian politician ( b. 1882 )

* August 3 – The U. S. Congress passes the 1882 Immigration Act.

* August 18 – The Married Women's Property Act 1882 receives royal assent in Britain ; it enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings.

* August 13 – Florence Easton, English opera soprano ( b. 1882 )

* August 8 – John Rodgers, American admiral ( d. 1882 )

The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29, 1882, on what is now the site of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library system.

The rest of the opera was scored between August 1879 and 13 January 1882.

In July and August 1882 sixteen performances of the work were given in Bayreuth conducted by Levi and Franz Fischer.

* Evening Lecture To The British Association At The Southampton Meeting on Friday, August 25, 1882.

They had three children together: John Philip, Jr. ( April 1, 1881 – May 18, 1937 ), Jane Priscilla ( August 7, 1882 – October 28, 1958 ), and Helen ( January 21, 1887 – October 14, 1975 ).

Éamon de Valera (; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975 ) was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth-century Ireland.

From Antonito a line was built over Cumbres Pass, along the Colorado-New Mexico border, reaching Durango, Colorado in August 1881 and continuing north to the rich mining areas around Silverton in July 1882.

A carburetor was developed by Enrico Bernardi at the University of Padua in 1882, for his “ Motrice Pia ”, the first petrol combustion engine ( one cylinder, 1, 225 cc ) prototyped on 5 August 1882.

In August 1882, Newcastle West End F. C.

Artur Schnabel, about 1906Artur Schnabel ( April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951 ) was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught.

Tensions subsided, however, with the Treaty of Chemulpo which was signed on the evening of August 30, 1882.

The county commission first met on August 29, 1881, and named Plankinton the county seat, an act which was ratified by voters in November 1882.

An organizing meeting was held on August 28, 1882, at Ellendale.

When Nelson's fleet arrived off Egypt on 1 August and discovered Brueys's dispositions, he ordered an immediate attack, and his ships advanced on the French line.

At 14: 00 on 1 August, lookouts on HMS Zealous reported the French anchored in Aboukir Bay, its signal lieutenant just beating the lieutenant on HMS Goliath with the signal, but inaccurately describing 16 French ships of the line instead of 13.

The line was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 July 1987, and passenger services began on 31 August.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

* 1908 5 August – The British Ambassador in Madrid informed the Spanish Minister of State ' as an act of courtesy ', of the British Government's intention to build a fence along the line of British sentries on the isthmus to prevent smuggling and reduce sentry duty.

George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

:* Battle of Utoy Creek, August 5 – 7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line into Atlanta from the east, heavy Union losses.

The first evidence of helium was observed on August 18, 1868 as a bright yellow line with a wavelength of 587. 49 nanometers in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the Sun.

In August 1987, Apple Computer released HyperCard for the Macintosh line at the MacWorld convention.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

During August and September 1912, a contingent of 2300 U. S. Marines landed at the port of Corinto and occupied León and the railway line to Granada.

Following this successful test, installation works of the first telegraph line ( Istanbul-Adrianople-Şumnu ) began on 9 August 1847.

In August 2002, several ex-PGP team members formed a new company, PGP Corporation, and bought the PGP assets ( except for the command line version ) from NAI.

The Pakistan-India boundary continues irregularly southward for about 1, 280 kilometers, following the line of the 1947 Radcliffe Award, named for Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the head of the British boundary commission on the division of the Punjabs of Pakistan and Indian-annexed Khalistan in Pre-Pakistani territories and in united Bengal of India into Pakistan's Eastern wing of Mashriqi-Pakistan on 13 August 1947.

Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a line of Apple Macintosh workstation-class personal computers based on various models of PowerPC microprocessors that were developed, marketed, and supported by Apple Inc. from March 1994 until August 2006.

Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 ( with the current line up solidifying in 1985 ), the band's four members — Trey Anastasio ( guitars, lead vocals ), Mike Gordon ( bass, vocals ), Jon Fishman ( drums, percussion, vocals ), and Page McConnell ( keyboards, vocals )— performed together for over 20 years before breaking up in August 2004.

On August 5, in a game won by Pittsburgh, 1-0, another Mays line drive did not elude the Pirates ' right fielder, thus preserving a scoreless tie, though leaving Clemente hospitalized, having crashed face-first into Forbes Field's right-centerfield fence at the 375-foot mark.

SGI rapidly evolved its machines into workstations with its second product line — the IRIS 2000 series, first released in August, 1985.

The following decree of the National Convention on August 23, 1793 clearly demonstrates the immensity of the French war effort, when the French front line forces grew to some 800, 000 with a total of 1. 5 million in all services — the first time an army in excess of a million had been mobilized in Western history.

As of August 2009, an estimated 60 % of Tajikistani citizens live below the poverty line.

The high speed railroad line between Ankara and Konya was finished in 3 June 2011 and was put into service in 23 August 2011.

Crowds of French people line the Champs Élysées following the Liberation of Paris, 26 August 1944.

* August 15 – Albert Ballin, German shipping magnate owner of the Hamburg America Line line ( d. 1918 )

* August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.

In August 1870 the Kansas Pacific laid the last spike connecting to the Denver Pacific line at Strasburg, Colorado and the first true Atlantic to Pacific United States railroad was completed.