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Chambers' Book of Days
August from the classic book
1st August
Cosmo De Medicis - Thomas Dogget And The Watermen's Rowing Match - Emancipation Of British Slaves
2nd August
Death Of William Rufus - Mehemet Ali - Ancient Writing Materials
3rd August
Powel's Puppet Show - Richard Arkwright - Stephen Dolet
4th August
Christopher Columbus - Shelley - Simon de Montfort
5th August
The Gowrie Conspiracy - The Arm Of St. Oswald - London Shoeblacks
6th August
The Sea Serpent - Ben Jonson - The Wife of Shakespeare
7th August
The Fenmen - General Putnam's Treatment Of A Spy - Queen Caroline
8th August
George Canning - Newspaper Management In The 17th Century
9th August
Izaak Walton - Dryden The Weapon Salve - The Duke Of Sussex's Annulled Marriage
10th August
The Modern Samson - Sayings Regarding The Moon And Weather - Founding Of Greenwich Observatory
11th August
Dr. Mead Rough Doctors - Kitty Cannon - James Wilson
12th August
Rowland Hill - Francis Horner - The Last Of The Georges
13th August
Hawking In The Olden Time - An Earthquake In Scotland
14th August
George Combe - The Funeral Of Queen Caroline
15th August
Napoleon Bonaparte - Joe Miller - The Battle Of Otterbourne And Chevy Chase
16th August
Eugene Aram - Tindal And Budgel - Palmer The Post Reformer
17th August
The Washing Tally - Frederick The Great
18th August
Decline And End Of The Jacobite Party - The Rebel Lords Of 1746
19th August
The Scratch Back - Robert Bloomfield - Count Rumford
20th August
Robert Herrick - The Life Of William Maginn - St. Bernard
21st August
Puppets A Hundred And Fifty Years Ago - Curious Prayer - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
22nd August
Warren Hastings - The Fate Of Ruth Osborne - The Battle Of Bosworth
23rd August
William Wallace - The Pig Faced Lady - George Villiers First Duke Of Buckingham
24th August
Theodore Hook - Bartholomew Fair - St. Bartholomew
25th August
Thomas Chatterton - The Montyon Prize For Virtue
26th August
Battle of Crecy - The Last Of The Arctic Voyagers - Lope De Vegas 1800 Plays
27th August
Landing Of Cæsar In Britain - Pope Sixtus V
28th August
Leigh Hunt - Resistance To Fire - St. Augustine
29th August
Edmund Hoyle - Loss Of The Royal George - Lilburne The Pamphleteer
30th August
John Camden Neild - An Obstinate Prisoner - William Paley
31st August
John Bunyan - Phillidor The Chess Player - Scotch Non-Trading League Against England
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