- Aug 15 Race riots in Cincinnati, Ohio spurred by city's threat to enforce restrictive residency requirements on Blacks begin; over 1,000 (more than half of the Black population) leave, many bound for Canada
- Aug 17 Dutch King Willem I and Pope Leo XII sign concord
- Aug 22 José de La Mar becomes President of Peru
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