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* '''1 August''' - Witchfinder '''[[Margaret Aitken]]''' is exposed as a fraud. ''(1597)''
* '''1 August''' - Witchfinder '''[[Margaret Aitken]]''' is exposed as a fraud. ''(1597)''
* '''4 August''' - Scottish nobleman '''[[William II de Soules]]''' is brought before the Black Parliament on charges of treason. ''(1320)''
* '''4 August''' - Scottish nobleman '''[[William II de Soules]]''' is brought before the Black Parliament on charges of treason. ''(1320)''
* '''10 August''' - Iconoclastic riots begin leading '''[[Weyn Ockers]]''' to throw her shoe at a statue of the Virgin Mary. ''(1566)''
* '''10 August''' - Astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel determines '''[[Sirius]]''' has an unseen companion. ''(1844)''
* '''10 August''' - Astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel determines '''[[Sirius]]''' has an unseen companion. ''(1844)''
* '''12 August''' - Witchfinder General '''[[Matthew Hopkins]]''' dies of tuberculosis. ''(1647)''
* '''12 August''' - Witchfinder General '''[[Matthew Hopkins]]''' dies of tuberculosis. ''(1647)''

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