August Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Enhance your current curriculum with this fun reference calendar. Whether you want to highlight historic events, honor birthdays of significant people, or celebrate holidays, this is a valuable tool for every teacher. Click on any event to find a breadth of related teaching resources that will spark new ideas to spice up your daily lessons. There's something worth celebrating every day!

Curriculum calendar for August 2026 showing educational events and resources
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
July 26, 2026	July 27, 2026	July 28, 2026	July 29, 2026	July 30, 2026	July 31, 2026	August 1, 2026 National Water Quality Month Begins Also try: water pollution, water sources Herman Melville born (1819) Also try: Moby Dick Justinian I becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire (527) Also try: Byzantine Empire
August 2, 2026 Declaraton of Independence is signed in Philadelphia by 56 members of Congress (1776) Also try: equality, government Trial run of San Francisco cable car on Clay St. (1873) Also try: public transportation The Lincoln Penny first issued (1909) Also try: currency, US Mint	August 3, 2026 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage (1492) Also try: Age of Discovery Calvin Coolidge becomes president after the death of President Warren G. Harding (1923) Also try: Warren G. Harding, US presidents	August 4, 2026 Louis Armstrong born (1901) Also try: jazz Barack Obama born (1961) Also try: US presidents Anne Frank and family arrested (1944) Also try: Holocaust, World War II	August 5, 2026 Neil Armstrong born (1930) Also try: astronauts, space exploration First transatlantic telegraph cable completed (1858) Also try: telecommunications	August 6, 2026 Hiroshima Day (1945) Also try: World War II, atomic bomb Alfred Lord Tennyson born (1809) Also try: poetry, Ulysses	August 7, 2026 Purple Heart Day Also try: war heroes First performance of Shakespeare's play, Macbeth (1606) Also try: William Shakespeare, tragedies	August 8, 2026 International Cat Day Also try: pets Juan Ponce de Leon founds Caparra, the first European settlement in Puerto Rico (1508) Also try: European explorers, Puerto Rican history
August 9, 2026 Nagasaki Day (1945) Also try: World War II, atomic bomb Walden by Henry David Thoreau first published (1854) Also try: Henry David Thoreau, transcendentalism Richard M. Nixon resigns (1974) Also try: Watergate scandal	August 10, 2026 Herbert Hoover born (1847) Also try: US presidents Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as an Associate Supreme Court Justice (1993) Also try: judicial system	August 11, 2026 The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles (1964) Also try: civil rights movement	August 12, 2026 World Elephant Day Also try: mammals Cleopatra commits suicide with an asp (30 BC) Also try: Ancient Egypt Issac M Singer parents first practical sewing machine (1851) Also try: home economics, textiles	August 13, 2026 Hernan Cortes captures Tenochtitlán from the Aztecs (1521) Also try: Tenochtitlán, Aztecs, conquistadors Opha May Jacob Johnson becomes first woman to join the US Marine Corps (1918) Also try: first women, armed forces	August 14, 2026 President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act (1935) Also try: FDR, New Deal First photograph taken of Earth from space (1959) Also try: satellite imagery Largest blackout in US history (2003) Also try: power outage, power grid	August 15, 2026 Napoleon Bonaparte born (1769) Also try: Napoleonic Wars Panama Canal formally opens (1914) Also try: Theodore Roosevelt, Isthmus of Panama India gains Independence from Great Britain (1947) Also try: British imperialism, Pakistan First new solar system found (2001) Also try: space exploration, the universe, cosmology National Hispanic Hertiage Month (Sept 15 - Oct 15) Also try: Latina, Latino, Latinx
August 16, 2026 National Roller Coaster Day Also try: conservation of energy, laws of motion Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom (1960) Also try: European Union	August 17, 2026 Davy Crockett born (1786) Also try: Battle of the Alamo Kind of Blue by Miles Davis released (1959) Also try: jazz	August 18, 2026 Pierre Janssen discovers helium (1868) Also try: noble gases, elements Mars moon Phobos discovered (1877) Also try: Mars	August 19, 2026 William J. Clinton born (1946) Also try: US presidents Five people executed after being convicted of witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials (1692) Also try: Massachusetts, colonial America Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer (1934) Also try: Fuhrer, Nazi Germany, causes of World War II	August 20, 2026 Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts (1882) Also try: classical music Leon Trotsky assassinated (1940) Also try: Russian Civil War, Marxism	August 21, 2026 Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion (1831) Also try: slave rebellion Mona Lisa painting stolen (1911) Also try: Leonardo da Vinci	August 22, 2026 Saint Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland (565) Also try: sea monsters 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention (1864) Also try: war crimes
August 23, 2026 First Opium War begins with the siege of Hong Kong (1839) Also try: Hong Kong, Qing Dynasty	August 24, 2026 Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii (79) Also try: Pompeii, volcanoes Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet (2006) Also try: dwarf planets, solar system	August 25, 2026 National Park Service established (1916) Also try: national monuments, conservationism Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight (1932) Also try: transcontinental flight Nationwide opening of the film Wizard of Oz (first color movie) (1939) Also try: film, cinema	August 26, 2026 Mother Teresa born (1910) Also try: humanitarians Krakatoa erupts (1883) Also try: volcanic eruptions, lava 19th Amendment takes effect (1920) Also try: women's suffrage, voting rights	August 27, 2026 Lyndon B. Johnson born (1908) Also try: US presidents George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake drill first US oil well (1859) Also try: petroleum	August 28, 2026 First radio commercial airs in New York City (1922) Also try: marketing, advertising Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech (1963) Also try: civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	August 29, 2026 First Indian reservation established (1758) Also try: Native American history Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast (2005) Also try: hurricanes, natural disasters
August 30, 2026 Mary Shelley born (1797) Also try: Frankenstein, Gothic literature Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (1967) Also try: Supreme Court, judicial branch	August 31, 2026 Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months (1422) Also try: King of England, English monarchy First solar-powered car demonstrated in Chicago (1955) Also try: renewable energy	September 1, 2026	September 2, 2026	September 3, 2026	September 4, 2026	September 5, 2026

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