August month facts
- August is the 8th month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
- August is one of 7 Gregorian months with a length of 31 days.
- August was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the 6th month in the original 10-month Roman calendar.
- August was named after Julius Caesar’s grandnephew Augustus.
- In August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima is bombed by the United States - for the first time in history a nuclear weapon was used against people.
- In Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, the month is called agosto from the Latin Augustus.
- The famous meteor showers, the Perseids, happens in the middle of August every year.
- August's birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy.
- The birthstone of the month is the peridot or onyx.
