The article focuses on historical events in the month of August from 216 B.C. to 1976. Topics discussed include death of Ahilyabai Holkar, queen of the Malwa kingdom in north-west central India on August 13, 1975, Kublai Khan's second Japanese invasion fleet is destroyed by a storm off shore of August 15, 1281 and Mac Bethad mac Findlaích, better known as Macbeth, is slain by Malcolm III at Lumphanan of August 15, 1057.