- Aug 3 Wheatland Hop Riot on a California farm, 4 die in one of the first farm labour disputes
- Aug 8 Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia
- Aug 10 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
A Royal Fantasy!
Aug 13 Otto Witte, a German acrobat and fantasist, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
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- Aug 13 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, Sheffield, England
- Aug 16 Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
- Aug 19 Frenchman Adolphe Célestin Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
- Aug 20 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
- Aug 20 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
- Aug 27 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper
- Aug 27 Lt Pyotr Nesterov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
Event of Interest
Aug 28 Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace in The Hague
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands