August 5

• August 5, 25
  Guangwu of Han, one of the many descendants of the Han imperial family, establishes Eastern Han dynasty in China
• August 5, 1391
  Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against the Jews
• August 5, 1763
  Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeat the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac's rebellion
• August 5, 1815
  A peace treaty with Tripoli, which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis, brings an end to the Barbary Wars and the American practice of paying tribute to the pirate states
• August 5, 1864
  Spectrum of a comet observed for first time, by Giovanni Donati, who determines their physical composition of the comet 1864b, which spectrum he finds containing three emitting lines
• August 5, 1891
  American Express begins the first company to develop a large-scale traveller's cheque system
• August 5, 1960
  Upper Volta, today known as Burkina Faso, gains independence from France
• August 5, 1962
  Nelson Mandela is arrested for incitement and illegally leaving South Africa
• August 5, 2016
  2016 Summer Olympics are opened in Rio de Janeiro

June 13

• June 13, 323 BC
  Alexander the Great dies of fever after a feast in Babylon, which causes wars of the Diadochoi, his generals and friends, in the Empire
• June 13, 40
  Gnaeus Julius Agricola, a Roman general and governor of Britain, is born
• June 13, 1381
  During the Revolt of Peasants the rebels enter London and, joined by many local townsfolk, attack the gaols, destroy the Savoy Palace and the Temple Inns of Court
• June 13, 1886
  King Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, drowns in Lake Starnberg and is found floating dead with his doctor
• June 13, 1886
  A swift fire destroys Vancouver, Canada, in a time variously reported between twenty and forty-five minutes consuming about 1,000 wooden buildings, virtually the entire city
• June 13, 1956
  Real Madrid wins the first season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football tournament

March 14

• March 14, 1558
  Ferdinand I is appointed Holy Roman emperor
• March 14, 1629
  About 1,000 puritans in Massachusetts Bay Company under the leadership of John Winthrop receive a royal charter from King Charles I to trade and colonize between the Charles and Merrimack rivers
• March 14, 1647
  The Treaty of Ulm is reached between the French and the Bavarians during the Thirty Years' War by which Maximilian I of Bavaria abandoned his alliance with the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand III
• March 14, 1653
  Johan van Galen beats English fleet in the battle of Leghorn at Livorno
• March 14, 1841
  David Livingstone, a Scottish explorer in Africa, arrives as medical missionary in Capetown, South Africa
• March 14, 1864
  Samuel and Florence Baker arrive at Lake Luta N'Zige and named it Lake Albert, also find that the Nile enters the lake at a 130-foot waterfall that they named Murchison Falls
• March 14, 1879
  Physicist Albert Einstein, mathematician best known for his theories on relativity, is born in Ulm, Germany
• March 14, 1883
  Karl Marx, a German political philosopher, dies in London
• March 14, 1900
  United States Congress passes the Gold Standard Act, fixing gold value of dollar at 25.8 grains at 0.900 fine as standard unit of money of the United States
• March 14, 1939
  Slovakia declares their independence from the Czech government in Prague and becomes a client state of Nazi Germany
• March 14, 1942
  American physician John Bumstead and Orvan Hess become the first in the world to successfully treat a patient using penicillin
• March 14, 1991
  Emir of Kuwait Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
• March 14, 1995
  Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle, lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
• March 14, 2004
  Vladimir Putin easily wins a second term in Russian presidential election