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The following events took place on August 31. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 51 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1056

  After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
• 1218

  Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil I.
• 1314

  King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
• 1422

  King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
• 1795

  War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
• 1798

  Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
• 1803

  Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh at 11 in the morning.
• 1813

  At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
• 1864

  During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta.
• 1876

  Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
• 1886

  An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1888

  Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.
• 1895

  German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
• 1897

  Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
• 1907

  Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
• 1913

  Police attack a union rally during the Dublin Lock-out, killing two people and injuring hundreds.
• 1918

  World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
• 1920

  Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
• 1920

  The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit.
• 1935

  In an attempt to stay out of the growing turmoil in Europe, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
• 1936

  Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
• 1939

  Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
• 1940

  Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
• 1941

  World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
• 1943

  USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
• 1945

  The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
• 1949

  The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
• 1957

  The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1958

  A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• 1962

  Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.

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