Events in History
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Aug 1 Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
The Sinking of the Vasa
Aug 10 Swedish warship Vasa sinks in Stockholm, killing 30
Birthdays in History
- Aug 29 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
Deaths in History
George Villiers (1592-1628)
Aug 23 1st Duke of Buckingham and English courtier who was a favorite of King James I, assassinated by army officer John Felton at 35
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