- Aug 17 -20] Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
- Aug 20 Battle of Lens: French Duc d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
- Aug 25 Siege of Deal Castle ends in the surrender of Royalist supporters to Parliamentarians during the Second English Civil War [1]
- Aug 26 People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
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