Educators' Calendar: United Kingdom

August 2022

31st July

31

1st August

1

2nd August

2

3rd August

3

4th August

4

5th August

5

6th August

6

31st July

1st August

British Imperial Act of 1833 Commenced (1834)

MTV Debuted (1981)

2nd August

U.S. Declaration of Independence Signed (1776)

First Roller Skating Rink in UK Opened (1875)

Persian Gulf War Began (1990)

3rd August

Columbus Set Sail (1492)

Poet Rupert Brooke Born (1887)

4th August

Musician Louis Armstrong Born (1901)

Britain Declared War on Germany (WWI) (1914)

Nazis Arrested Anne Frank & Family (1944)

U.S. President Barack Obama Born (1961)

5th August

Astronaut Neil Armstrong Born (1930)

6th August

Poet Lord Alfred Tennyson Born (1809)

Biologist Alexander Fleming Born (1881)

First Woman Swam Across English Channel (1926)

Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima (1945)

7th August

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8th August

8

9th August

9

10th August

10

11th August

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12th August

12

13th August

13

7th August

Act of Parliament Banned Boy Chimney Sweeps (1840)

First Pictures of Earth Taken from Space (1959)

Lynne Cox Swam Bering Strait (1987)

8th August

England Attacked Spanish Armada (1588)

Great Train Robbery (1963)

9th August

Jesse Owens Won Four Olympic Gold Medals (1936)

Atom Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki (1945)

10th August

Ferdinand Magellan Set Sail from Seville (1519)

11th August

Martian Moon Phobos Discovered (1677)

First Racing Meeting at Ascot (1711)

Federal Prison at Alcatraz Opened (1934)

12th August

Cleopatra Committed Suicide (-30)

International Youth Day

Antiseptic First Used During Surgery (1865)

13th August

'International Left-Hander''s Day'

Last Execution at Tower of London (1941)

First Two-Way Satellite Conversation (1948)

Berlin Wall Built (1961)

14th August

14

15th August

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16th August

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17th August

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18th August

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19th August

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20th August

20

14th August

Pakistan Gained Independence from Britain (1947)

British Troops Sent into Northern Ireland (1969)

15th August

King Macbeth Killed (1057)

Panama Canal Opened (1914)

India Gained Independence from Britain (1947)

16th August

Bathysphere Reached Record Depth (1934)

Cyprus Gained Independence (1960)

17th August

Berlin Riots Began After Shooting of Teen (1962)

First Successful Transatlantic Hot Air Balloon Flight (1978)

18th August

First American Child of English Parents Born (1587)

19th August

Adolf Hitler Elected Fuhrer (1934)

20th August

Winston Churchill Delivers "Never Was So Much Owed" Speech (1940)

Czechoslovakia Invaded by Warsaw Pact Nations (1968)

First Solo Ascent of Mt. Everest (1980)

21st August

21

22nd August

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23rd August

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24th August

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25th August

25

26th August

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27th August

27

21st August

Mona Lisa Stolen (1911)

22nd August

English Civil War Began (1642)

Writer Ray Bradbury Born (1920)

23rd August

International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade & Its Abolition

Scottish Independence Leader William Wallace Executed (1305)

Japan Declared War on Germany (WWI) (1914)

24th August

Mount Vesuvius Erupted (79)

25th August

First Swimmer Crossed the English Channel (1875)

Allies Liberated Paris From Nazis (1944)

Earth Photographed from the Moon (1966)

26th August

'Caesar''s First British Expedition' (-55)

Novelist Christopher Isherwood Born (1904)

27th August

Eruption of Krakatoa (1883)

Mother Teresa Born (1910)

Aug. 27-28
Notting Hill Carnival

28th August

28

29th August

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30th August

30

31st August

31

1st September

1

2nd September

2

3rd September

3

28th August

'Wagner''s Lohengrin Premiered' (1850)

Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)

29th August

U.S.S.R. Tested Atomic Bomb (1949)

'Beatles'' Last Major Live Concert' (1966)

Hurricane Katrina Hits New Orleans (2005)

30th August

International Day of the Disappeared

Writer Mary Shelley Born (1797)

31st August

International Blog Day

Trinidad & Tobago Gained Independence from Britain (1962)

Princess Diana Died (1997)

1st September

2nd September

3rd September

Month-Long Holidays and Events

Seed Gathering Season (9/23-10/23)