31st August 1907: The Anglo-Russian Entente is signed, forming the Triple Entente
Britain and Russia signed the Anglo-Russian Entente, which led to the formation of the Triple ...
31 Aug 20220s
30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt
The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary ...
30 Aug 20220s
29th August 1842: The First Opium War ends when Britain and China sign the Treaty of Nanking
The First Opium War formally ended when Britain and China signed the Treaty of Nanking, the first of the ‘unequal ...
29 Aug 20220s
28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Taking place on the centenary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared the freedom of slaves, ‘I Have a Dream’ was the sixteenth of eighteen speeches given by different orators that day and is regularly described as one of the best speeches of the 20th ...
28 Aug 20220s
27th August 1928: Fifteen nations including Germany, France and the United States sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war
At the time it was optimistically hoped that the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact would stop any future wars, but the impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s led nations such as Japan and Italy to launch invasions of Manchuria and Abyssinia ...
27 Aug 20220s
26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France
The National Constituent Assembly of France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the ...
26 Aug 20220s
25th August 1875: Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to successfully swim across the English ...
25 Aug 20220s
24th August 79: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wipes out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum
Beginning at around 1pm on 24 August, Mount Vesuvius sent gas, volcanic ash, and pumice into the stratosphere for up to 20 hours. This was followed by a pyroclastic flow that carried gas and molten rock down from the volcano and which then buried the previously fallen ...
24 Aug 20220s
