TEN THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT AUGUST

1. The Romans gave this month its name in 8BC,
after the first Roman Emperor Augustus who ruled
from 27BC until his death in AD14.
2. Before then, the month had been known as
Sextilis, as it was the sixth of ten months in the
Roman Calendar, which began with March.
3. The Anglo-Saxon called August “Weodmonath”
meaning “weed month”.
4. The birthstones for August are the peridot and
the sardonyx and the flowers are the gladiolus and
poppy.
5. August was the 55th most common name given
to a baby boy in Sweden in 2014.

6. Statistics show that 22 per cent of men named
August in Sweden were born in August.
7. Henry VI Part 1 and The Tempest are the only
plays by Shakespeare that mention the month of
August.
8. In 2015, August is the only month beginning on a
Saturday.
9. Warren Harding was the only US President to
have died in the month of August.
10. The city of Augusta, Georgia was named after
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772),
mother of King George III.

Happy new month pals

#shout out to all August born