What is August 8?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[117]] &ndash; Roman Emperor [[Trajan]] dies, and is succeeded by [[Hadrian]]. * [[1220]] &ndash; [[Sweden]] is defeated by [[Estonia]]n tribes in the [[Battle of Lihula]]. * [[1503]] &ndash; King [[James IV of Scotland]] marries [[Margaret Tudor]]. * [[1576]] &ndash; The cornerstone for [[Tycho Brahe]]'s Uraniborg [[Observatory]] is laid in Ven, Sweden. * [[1585]] &ndash; [[John Davis (English explorer)|John Davis]] enters [[Cumberland Sound]] in search for the [[Northwest Passage]]. * [[1588]] &ndash; The [[Spanish Armada]] is beaten by the English at the [[Battle of Gravelines]]. * [[1605]] &ndash; The city of [[Oulu]] in [[Finland]], is founded by [[Charles IX of Sweden]]. * [[1647]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dungan's Hill]], [[Ireland]] – [[England|English]] [[Parliament]]ary forces defeat Irish forces during the [[Irish Confederate Wars]] and [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]]. * [[1709]] &ndash; [[Bartolomeu de Gusmao]] demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in front of an audience and the [[King]] of [[Portugal]] in [[Lisbon]]. * [[1786]] &ndash; [[Mont Blanc]] is climbed for the first time, by an expedition led by [[Jacques Bilmat]] and [[Michel-Gabriel Paccard]]. * [[1789]] &ndash; [[Australia]]'s first police force begins in [[Sydney]], called Nightwatch. * [[1794]] &ndash; [[Joseph Whidbey]] leads an expedition to find the [[Northwest Passage]] near [[Juneau]], [[Alaska]]. * [[1815]] &ndash; [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] sails to [[St. Helena]] to spend the rest of his life in [[exile]]. * [[1844]] &ndash; The Twelve Apostles, led by [[Brigham Young]] become the leaders of the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]]. * [[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: General [[Robert E. Lee]] sends a letter of resignation to [[Jefferson Davis]], which is rejected. * [[1876]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edison]] receives a [[patent]] for the [[mimeograph]]. * [[1885]] &ndash; Over 1.5 million people attend the [[funeral]] of [[Ulysses S. Grant]] in [[New York City]]. * [