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'''August''' was a [[month]] with 31 [[day]]s.

== By year ==
=== Early history ===
The [[Tenth Doctor]] noted to [[Reinette]] that this was not a very good month in [[1727]], warning her to "stay indoors". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)}})

=== 20th century ===
[[File:August on a calendar.jpg|thumb|A [[calendar]] displaying the [[month]] of August. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|The Zero Imperative (home video)}})]]
In [[1914]], [[Germany|German]] troops were advancing on the [[Belgium|Belgian]] town of [[Mons]]. The [[United Kingdom]] was preparing to enter [[World War I]] by defending Mons. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Weeping Angels of Mons (comic story)}})

In [[1915]], the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]] arrived in [[Haiti]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|White Darkness (novel)}})

The [[Spanish influenza]] [[Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918|epidemic of 1918]] entered a second, deadlier phase in August after a new strain of the [[virus]] emerged. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Casualties of War (novel)}})

In [[1937]], amidst the onset of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] in the [[north]] of [[China]], [[Hsien-Ko]] and the [[Tong of the Black Scorpion]] attempted to abduct [[Magnus Greel]] from the [[Time Vortex]] to avenge the [[death]] of [[Li H'sen Chang]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadow of Weng-Chiang (novel)}})

In [[1939]], the [[Nazi]]s held a rally in [[Nuremberg]] where [[Adolf Hitler]] played tribute to the [[Political party|party]]'s "Glorious Dead". A fierce [[propaganda]] campaign was underway by this time ahead of the [[Invasion of Poland|imminent invasion]] of [[Poland]] after the end of the month. The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrived in [[Germany]] at this time to investigate disturbances in the [[timeline]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}})

In [[1940]], the [[Battle of Britain]] was at its height. Fanatics among the [[Heliyon]] were discovered by the [[Eighth Doctor]] to be [[War crime|interfering]] in the conflict on [[27 August]]. On [[28 August]], refugees from [[Polish Air Force]] were allowed to join the [[Royal Air Force]] against the [[Luftwaffe]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Their Finest Hour (audio story)}})

In [[1942]], the [[Third Reich]] reached the peak of its power, just ahead of the [[Battle of Stalingrad|"key" attack]] on [[Stalingrad]]. Hitler and the Nazi elite attended a ball in Berlin. The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Brigadier]] [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] infiltrated the ball posed as [[military]] [[Medicine|medical]] professionals. They took [[blood]] samples from Hitler and [[Eva Braun]], ostensibly to check if the two were racially compatible.

In [[1944]], ''[[Reichsleiter]]'' [[Martin Bormann]], the Nazi Party [[secretary]], realised that Germany was losing the war and so began formulating [[Operation Eagle Flight]], a foundation from which the Nazis could relaunch their [[Fascism|fascist]] crusade even after defeat. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadow in the Glass (novel)}})

In [[1945]], the [[United States of America]] utilised the world's first [[nuclear bomb]]s to [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|destroy]] the [[Japan]]ese [[City|cities]] of [[Hiroshima]] and [[Nagasaki]]. The [[Little Boy|former bomb]] was dropped some time after [[5 August]], the date of an [[Big Momma|aborted attack]] on [[Kyoto]]. The [[Fat Man|latter bomb]] was dropped four days after the former. Japan [[surrender]]ed after the turn of the month. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Sky Jacks (comic story)}})

In [[1947]], [[violence]] in the former [[British Raj]] escalated after the [[Partition of India]] on [[17 August]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Demons of the Punjab (TV story)}})

In [[1969]], [[Charles Manson]]'s "family" killed five people in [[Hollywood]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dead Romance (novel)}})

In [[1998]], the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Liv Chenka]], and [[Helen Sinclair]] visited [[Calcot]] and found that it was being affected by a piece of the [[Doomsday Chronometer]]. The piece's proximity to a newly installed cellphone tower allowed calls made within the town to reach into the past to dead loved ones. The Doctor and Liv found the piece while Helen met with her brother [[George Sinclair|George]], who died shortly before the Doctor, Helen, and Liv left. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Absent Friends (audio story)}})

=== Later history ===
In [[2006]], [[astronomer]]s reclassified [[Pluto]] as a [[dwarf planet]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')

In [[2020]], the [[Time Fracture]] at the former [[UNIT]] [[Black Site]] saw an increase in activity. ([[WC]]: {{cs|14681 UNIT Field Log (webcast)}}, {{cs|14682 UNIT Field Log (webcast)}}, {{cs|14683 UNIT Field Log (webcast)}})
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