# 31 August 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
# 30 August 1863 – Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian chemist and photographer (d. 1944). He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photographyand his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.
# 29 August 1952년 - 존 케이지의 피아노곡 《4분 33초》가 초연되다.
# 28 August 1542 – Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
- # 27 August 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
# 26 August 1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
# 25 August 1543 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.
# 24 August 1995 – Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
# 23 August 1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
# 22 August 1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Korea-Japan Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
한일 병합 조약(한국 한자: 韓日倂合條約) 또는 한국 병합에 관한 조약(일본어: 韓国併合ニ関スル条約 칸코쿠헤이고니칸스루조야쿠)은 1910년 8월 22일에 조인되어 8월 29일 발효된 대한제국과 일본 제국 사이에 일방적인 위력에 의해 이루어진 합병조약(合倂條約)이다. 한일 합방 조약(한국 한자: 韓日合邦条約)이라고도 불린다. 대한제국의 내각총리대신 이완용과 제3대 한국 통감인 데라우치 마사타케가 형식적인 회의를 거쳐 조약을 통과시켰으며, 조약의 공포는 8월 29일에 이루어져 대한제국은 일본 제국의 식민지가 되었다. 한국에서는 국권피탈(한국 한자: 國權被奪), 경술국치(한국 한자: 庚戌國恥) 등으로 호칭한다.
# 21 August 1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Perugia, a Louvre employee.
# 20 August 1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
# 19 August 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
# 18 August 1976 – In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
# 17 August 1945 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.
# 16 August 1946 – Mass riots in Kolkata begin; more than 4,000 people would be killed in 72 hours.
# 15 August 1945 – Jewel Voice Broadcast by the Emperor Showa following effective surrender of Japan in the World War II, Korea gains Independence from the Empire of Japan.
# 14 August 2003년 - 서울지방법원, 간첩누명 쓴 수지 김 유족에 42억 국가 배상 판결.
# 13 August 1961 – Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started
# 12 August 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.
# 11 Août 1919 : naissance de la République de Weimar avec sa nouvelle constitution.
# 10 August 1793 : inauguration du musée du Louvre.
# 09 August 1930 – Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
# 08 August 1988 – The 8888 Uprising begins in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). Led by students, hundreds of thousands join in nationwide protests against the one-party regime. On September 18, the demonstrations end in a military crackdown, killing thousands.
# 07 August 1789 – The United States Department of War is established.
# 06 August 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
# 05 August 1392년 - 한반도에서 이성계에 의해서 조선 건국.
# 04 August 1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
# 03 August 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate(b. 1918) Death.
# 02 August 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
# 01 August 1910 – Gerda Taro, German war photographer(d. 1937) Birth