August 8 in History
8 August in History – 516 years ago
North America 1508: Colonization of Puerto Rico
In 1508 the Spanish explorer Ponce de León led an expedition from Santo Domingo to colonize... SEE MORE…
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All Events on 8 August
ends
1958
Batista’s offensive against Castro
starts
1942
US troops secure Guadalcanal
1942
Gandhi starts Quit India Movement
ends
1937
Japanese take Beiping and Tianjin
1930
Norway secretly claims Victoria Island in Russian Arctic
ends
1919
Third Anglo-Afghan War
starts
1918
Allied Hundred Days Offensive
1848
Citizens of Bologna expel Austrian troops
1846
Wilmot Proviso attempts to ban slavery in west
starts
1841
Santa Anna seizes power in Mexico
starts
1815
Napoleon exiled to Saint Helena
ends
1815
Austrians capture Gaeta by siege
ends
1809
Black Brunswickers fight their way across Germany to join British
ends
1808
British forces under Wellesley arrive in Portugal
starts
1519
Cortés marches from Veracruz coast to Tenochtitlan
1508
Spanish begin colonizing Puerto Rico
410
Sarus attacks Alaric, breaking Roman–Gothic truce*
ends
368
Isaurians overrun Pamphylia and Cilicia*
ends
328
Constantine executes his son Crispus and wife Fausta*
ends
117
Trajan rules Roman Empire
*Actual date uncertain; set to 8 August for purposes of Omniatlas
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