* 1920 – Polish – Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25.

* 1921 – August Kowalczyk, Polish actor, director, and Holocaust survivor ( d. 2012 )

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky ; ; ) ( c. 1595 – 6 August 1657 ) was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( now part of Ukraine ).

Polish – Soviet War, Battle of Warsaw ( 1920 ) | defenses near Warsaw, August 1920

Janusz Andrzej Zajdel ( 15 August 1938 in Warsaw – 19 July 1985 in Warsaw ) was a prominent Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland after Stanisław Lem.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop's demand, given at about midnight, that if a Polish plenipotentiary did not arrive in Berlin that night to discuss the German " final offer ", then the responsibility for the outbreak of war would not rest on the Reich.

At the court of Zygmunt August, the last king of the Duchy, both Polish and Lithuanian were spoken.

Lithuania's suspension of two strongly ethnic Polish district councils on charges of blocking reform or disloyalty during the August 1991 coup had cooled relations with Poland, but bilateral cooperation markedly increased with the holding of elections in those districts and the signing of a bilateral Friendship Treaty in 1994.

He began his political career in 1980 / 1981 as one of the leaders of the Students ' Solidarity ; he was governor of the Gdańsk Voivodship from August 1990 to July 1996, and was elected to the Sejm ( the lower house of the Polish parliament ) in September 1997.

In the final moments of August 1939 all remains of political and cultural life of Polish minority was eradicated by Nazis, with imprisonment of Polish activists and liquidation of Polish institutions.

Stalin had decided in August that he was going to liquidate the Polish state, and a German – Soviet meeting in September addressed the future structure of the " Polish region ".

In August 2009, in an article written for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemned the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact as " immoral.

Polish civilians murdered by Waffen-SS troops ( Azeri Waffen SS Volunteer Formations # Ostmuselmanische SS-Regiment | SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger ) in Warsaw Uprising, August 1944.

In August 1991, the group killed one Italian and two Polish priests in Ancash Region.

Solidarity (, pronounced ; full name: Independent Self-governing Trade Union " Solidarity " – Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy " Solidarność " ) is a Polish trade union federation that emerged on 31 August 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa.

Stefan Banach (; March 30, 1892 – August 31, 1945 ) was a Polish mathematician.

During August 1920, at the time of Polish Silesian Uprising in Upper Silesia, the Polish Consulate and School were destroyed, while the Polish Library was burned down by a mob.

In August 1945 the city had a German population of 189, 500, and a Polish population of 17, 000 ; that was soon to change.

Witold Marian Gombrowicz ( August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France ) was a Polish novelist and dramatist.

In August 1564 Oxford was among 17 nobles, knights and esquires in the Queen's entourage who were awarded the honorary degree of Master of Arts by the University of Cambridge, and was awarded another by Oxford University on a Royal progress in 1566.

In August 1257, John of Arsuf tried to end the war by granting commercial rights in Acre to Ancona, an Italian ally of Genoa, but aside from Philip of Montfort and the Hospitallers, the rest of the nobles continued to support Venice.

French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L ' Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed priests and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively.

The English invasion campaign had subdued most of the country by August and, after removing the Stone of Destiny from Scone Abbey and transporting it to Westminster Abbey, Edward convened a parliament at Berwick, where the Scottish nobles paid homage to him as King of England.

On 27 August, Leopold and King Frederick William II of Prussia, in consultation with émigrés French nobles, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which declared the interest of the monarchs of Europe in the well-being of Louis and his family, and threatened vague but severe consequences if anything should befall them.

French nobles launched a rebellion in 1620, but their forces were easily routed by royal forces at Les Ponts-de-Cé in August 1620.

Urban had planned the departure of the first crusade for 15 August 1096, the Feast of the Assumption, but months before this, a number of unexpected armies of peasants and petty nobles set off for Jerusalem on their own, led by a charismatic priest called Peter the Hermit.

Coligny, along with many other Calvinist nobles, arrived in Paris for the wedding of the Catholic Princess Marguerite de Valois to the Protestant Henry of Navarre on August 18.

Edward Balliol, son of King John Balliol, assisted by the English and Scottish nobles disinherited by Robert I, invaded Scotland inflicting heavy defeats on the Bruce party on 11 August 1332 at Dupplin Moor and then again at Halidon Hill on 10 July 1333.

By August a report had reached Emma's daughter, Gunnhild, at the German court that her " unhappy and unjust step-mother " ( i. e. Ælfgifu ) was working to deprive Gunnhild's brother, Harthacnut, of the kingdom by holding great feasts, and trying by argument and gifts to persuade the leading nobles to give their fealty to Harold.

He then induced the council to call the assembly of notables, which met at Chateau Fontainebleau in August 1560 and agreed that the States-General ( a council of clergy, nobles and commons ) should be summoned.

On 27 August, Leopold and King Frederick William II of Prussia, in consultation with emigrant French nobles, issued the Declaration of Pilnitz, which declared the interest of the monarchs of Europe in the well-being of Louis and his family, and threatened vague but severe consequences if anything should befall them.

A large army was soon collected, many nobles from the upper Rhineland joined the standard, and at Landau, in August 1522, Sickingen was formally named commander.

On 27 August, Leopold and King Frederick William II of Prussia, in consultation with emigrant French nobles, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which declared the interest of the monarchs of Europe in the well-being of Louis and his family, and threatened vague but severe consequences if anything should befall them.

The Bar Confederation (; 1768 – 1772 ) was an association of Polish nobles ( szlachta ) formed at the fortress of Bar in Podolia in 1768 to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence and against King Stanisław August Poniatowski and Polish reformers who were attempting to limit the power of the Commonwealth's magnates ( wealthy szlachta ).

* The " Great Fear " – Refers to the period of July and August 1789, when peasants sacked the castles of the nobles and burned the documents that recorded their feudal obligations.

On 2 August Domhnall was elected as the new regent at a meeting of the Scottish nobles at Perth.

Rudolf of Habsburg ( král kaše ) was never accepted by the Bohemian nobles, and after his death on 4 July 1307, Henry was elected King of Bohemia again, on 15 August.

In September 1431, Poland and Lithuania signed a two-year truce ; however, on August 31, 1432, a group of nobles deposed Švitrigaila in support of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, brother of Vytautas.

The rokosz, formed on 5 August 1606 by Mikołaj Zebrzydowski, Jan Szczęsny Herburt, Stanisław Stadnicki, Aleksander Józef Lisowski and Janusz Radziwiłł in Stężyca and Lublin, was caused by the growing dissatisfaction with the King among the nobility ( szlachta ), who disapproved of the King's efforts to limit the power of the nobles ( his attempts to weaken the Sejm, the Polish parliament ) and to introduce a hereditary monarchy in place of the elective one ).

* Shows the election of King Stanisław II August, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth only nobles were allowed to vote for the king.

* Louis II de Sancerre, Count of Sancerre ( d. August 26, 1346 ) One of the few French nobles to penetrate the English front line at the Battle of Crécy.