Editing August 8 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1647]] &ndash; The [[Irish Confederate Wars]] and [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]]: [[Battle of Dungan's Hill]]: [[Parliament of England|English Parliament]]ary forces defeat Irish forces.
*[[1648]] &ndash; [[Mehmed IV]] (1648–1687) succeeds [[Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire|Ibrahim I]] (1640–1648) as [[Ottoman sultan]].
*[[1709]] &ndash; [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the king of Portugal in [[Lisbon]], Portugal.
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[Mont Blanc]] on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by [[Jacques Balmat]] and Dr. [[Michel-Gabriel Paccard]].
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Joseph Whidbey]] leads an expedition to search for the [[Northwest Passage]] near [[Juneau, Alaska]].
*[[1831]] &ndash; Four hundred [[Shawnee]] people agree to relinquish their lands in [[Ohio]] in exchange for land west of the [[Mississippi River]] in the [[Treaty of Wapakoneta]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Treaty_of_Wapakoneta_(1831)|title=Treaty of Wapakoneta (1831) – Ohio History Central|website=www.ohiohistorycentral.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-04}}</ref>
*[[1844]] &ndash; The [[Quorum of the Twelve]] Apostles, headed by [[Brigham Young]], is reaffirmed as the leading body of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church).
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Following his defeat in the [[Battle of Gettysburg]], General [[Robert E. Lee]] sends a letter of resignation to [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] President [[Jefferson Davis]] (which is refused upon receipt).
*  1863   &ndash; [[Tennessee]] Military Governor [[Andrew Johnson]] frees his [[Andrew Johnson and slavery|personal slaves]] in [[Greeneville, Tennessee]] despite them being exempt from the [[Emancipation Proclamation]], now commemorated as [[Emancipation Day#Kentucky and Tennessee – 8 August|Emancipation Day]] in the state.<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Emancipation Day in Tennessee|url=https://tnmuseum.org/Stories/posts/the-history-of-emancipation-day-in-tennessee|author=Davis, Stephanie|website=TNMuseum.org|publisher=Tennessee State Museum|date=August 27, 2021|access-date=August 8, 2022}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; The ''[[Republic of Ploiești]]'', a failed [[Liberalism and radicalism in Romania|Radical-Liberal]] rising against [[Domnitor]] [[Carol I of Romania|Carol]] of [[Romania]].
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edison]] receives a patent for his [[mimeograph]].
*[[1897]] &ndash; Italian anarchist Michele Angiolillo [[Assassination of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo|assassinates Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Avilés Farré |first1=Juan |author-link=Juan Avilés Farré |title=La Daga y la dinamita: los anarquistas y el nacimiento del terrorismo |date=2013 |language=Spanish |isbn=978-84-8383-753-5 |publisher=Tusquets |location=Barcelona |oclc=892212465 |pages=324–325 }}
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