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- 14 August 2002 – Water in the Vltava reaches peak level during the 2002 European floods, in which 17 people in the country die and around 200,000 are evacuated from their homes
- 15 August 1744 – Frederick the Great leads a Prussian invasion of Bohemia as part of the War of the Austrian Succession
- 20 August 1968 – The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia takes place in response to the Prague Spring reform movement
- 26 August 1992 – Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar meet at Villa Tugendhat and agree to the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
- 28 August 1867 – The Bohemian Crown Jewels (replica of the Crown of Saint Wenceslas pictured) are returned to Prague from Vienna