A rock struck the superintendent at the Lazaretto sanitorium
Sir Charles W. Wolverton Sr. arrival and establishmet of a settlement called teh Bridge later known as Bridgetown
A special proclamation in Barbadian detailing the new rules for the enslaved, in effect from August 8th 1834.
Collis Llewellyn King a cricketing all-rounder who played for Barbados and the west Indies was born on this day.