1st » The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
30th » Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1800
21st » Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
22nd » William S. Harney, American general (d. 1889)
22nd » Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1865)