August 7
322 BC Battle of Crannon: Macedonian
forces of Antipater and Craterus and rebellious Greek forces led by the
Athenians, was the decisive battle of the Lamian War, following the death of
Alexander the Great. The Greeks sued for peace which marked the end of
city-state freedom from Macedonian hegemony in Greece.
1485 Henry VII's army landed in Milford Harbor, South-Wales, a
Lancastrian stronghold, and amassed an army to seize the crown from Richard III
who was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485.
1606 The
first documented performance of Macbeth was performed at the Great Hall at
Hampton Court.
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