August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).
Historical Events for August, 1860
Day of Week 3rd » The New Zealand Wars named Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
Day of Week 5th » Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1860
3rd » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer (d. 1935)
7th » Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917)
10th » Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist (d. 1936)
11th » Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (d. 1939)
12th » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (d. 1907)
13th » Annie Oakley, American target shooter (d. 1926)
15th » Henrietta Vinton Davis, American actress and playwright (d. 1941)
15th » Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States (d. 1924)
16th » Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, English-Scottish cricketer (d. 1938)
16th » Jules Laforgue, Uruguayan-French poet (d. 1887)
20th » Raymond Poincaré, French politician, 10th President of France (d. 1934)
22nd » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor, created the Nipkow disk (d. 1940)
22nd » Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (d. 1940)
22nd » Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (d. 1917)
24th » David Bowman (Australian politician) e.g David Bowman, Australian politician (d. 1916)
31st » Alfred Grütter, Swiss target shooter (d. 1937)
Famous Deaths for August 1860
14th » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)