August

In the Gregorian calendar, August is the eighth month of the year and has 31 days. It was named after the Roman Emperor Octavian Augustus (Octavius Augustus).

In the ancient Roman calendar, the year began in March and the sixth month was called sextilis but, in the year 24 B.C. C., Octavio Augusto decided to give him his name and since then sextilis was called augustus . Octavio thus imitated the previously deceased Julius Caesar who, twenty-one years earlier, had done the same with the fifth month, hitherto called quinctilis and which with him came to be called lulius in homage to the Iulia family, to which he belonged.

But Octavio thought little of giving his name to sextilis, because he considered that that month did not have the same glory as iulius, since iulius had 31 days and augustus only 29. For that reason, the emperor altered the duration of several months, removing and adding days, until 'his' month had 31 days. That is why even today, two thousand years later, July and August have 31 days each.

He was chosen this month to honor the emperor because in it he defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony and entered Rome victorious.

The month of August begins (astrologically) with the sign of Leo and ends in Virgo.

In Ireland, the month of August is called Lúnasa (from Old Irish Lughnasadh) and takes its name from the god Lugh. The first Monday of August is one of the national holidays of this country.

Among the aborigines of the Canary Islands, especially among the Guanches of Tenerife, the month of August was known as Beñesmer or Beñesmen, which was also the harvest festival celebrated in this month.

Important events in August

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• On 1 August the Independence of Switzerland is celebrated.
• On 1 August, Pachamama Day is celebrated in several countries in South America
• On 2 August, Costa Rica celebrates the day of the Virgin of Los Angeles (Costa Rica), patron of the air forces of Costa Rica.
• On August 3, the birth of Juan C. Salvador is celebrated.
• On August 3, the departure of the Port of Palos de la Frontera (Huelva, Andalusia, Spain) of the three caravels that led Christopher Columbus led the discovery of America.
• On August 3, the birth of the Ecuadorian priest Juan C. Salvador is celebrated.
• The Patron Festivals of San Salvador El Salvador, or Feasts, are celebrated in honor of the Divine Savior of the World, takes place on August 1-6.
• The foundation of Bogotá, Colombia, is celebrated on 6 August.
• The Independence of Bolivia is celebrated on 6 August.
• On August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan, the United States detonated the first of the two atomic bombs on the civilian population of history.
• On August 7, 1819, the Battle of Boyacá was produced in Colombia, with which national independence was realized.
• On 8 August 1940 in Kure, Japan, the battleship Yamato, the heaviest and most heavily armed warship in history, was launched.
• On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union launched an offensive on Manchuria.
• The second Sunday of August is the Day of the Child in Chile.
• On 9 August 1945, in Nagasaki, Japan, the United States detonated the second atomic bomb on the civilian population of history.
• On August 9, 1969, in the 10050 mansion of Sky Drive in Los Angeles (California), members of the La Familia sect (Charles Manson) murder five people, including the famous actress Sharon Tate.
• On August 10, 1809, in Quito (Ecuador) the autonomist uprising occurred in support of the deposed king of Spain (Carlos IV). This fact is known as the first cry of independence.
• On August 13, 1521 the city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica Empire, succumbed to the troops of Hernán Cortés.
• On August 14, 1945 Japan surrenders, ending World War II.
• On August 15, Costa Rica celebrates Mother's Day.
• On August 15, Panama celebrates the foundation of Panama Viejo.
• On August 16, Paraguay celebrates Child Day.
• On August 16, 1863 the Restoration of the Dominican Republic occurred, freeing it from the Spanish Empire and returning the independence they conquered on February 27, 1844.
• On 24 August, the Day of Independence is celebrated in Ukraine.
• On August 25, Uruguay is celebrating the Declaration of Independence, proposed in Florida in 1825.

Related expressions

• August cold in face, it notes that this month usually begins to feel the cold.
• August and harvest is not every day, and yes every year: one with gain and others with damage, admonitive of the economy with which the farmers should live, for there is only one harvest and that response to contingencies still.
• Do your August or your exhaust, make your business, take advantage of the occasion, take advantage of it to round up, to enrich, etc.

Other data

• For the Catholic Church, this month is dedicated to God the Father.
• This month it is called "the blackest month of aviation", due to the high rate of air accidents occurred in it. But in everything August in 2005, the aeronautical industry was strongly affected by a large increase in aircraft accidents. The most significant accidents of August 2005 chronologically are:
  • 2 August: Air France flight 358 leaves the track while landing in Toronto. They survive all their occupants, but many wounded and some serious.
  • August 6: Tuninter's 1153 flight crashes into the Mediterranean Sea when it was over 18 miles from the city of Palermo, dying sixteen of the thirty-nine people on board.
  • August 14: Helios Airways flight 522 crashes into a mountain in Greece, with 115 passengers and 6 crew members dying.
  • August 16: West Caribbean Flight 708 crashes into the population of Machiques, Venezuela and its 160 occupants die. On the same day, the helicopter crash occurred in Afghanistan, and its 17 occupants perished. They were all Spanish soldiers on board.
  • August 23: TANS Peru flight 204 crashes 5 km from the airport of the Peruvian city of Pucallpa, during a strange hail storm, killing 40 of its 98 occupants.