Historical Events In August - 22
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
0392 On August - 22 arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
0408 Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48 on August - 22.
0476 On this day in history odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
0565 St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness on this day in history.
0634 On August - 22 abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies
0851 On this day in history erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard on August - 22.
1241 Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies on August - 22.
1280 Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies on August - 22.
1286 On August - 22 erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered
1350 Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies on August - 22.
1367 Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57 on this day in history.
1454 On this day in history jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1485 On August - 22 richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets
1485 Battle of Bosworth Field on this day in history.
1485 Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32 on August - 22.
1530 Bartolomeo Spontone, composer on August - 22.
1532 On this day in history william Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82
1543 Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren on this day in history.
1553 John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded on this day in history.
1559 On August - 22 spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic
1572 On this day in history failed assassination on admiral De Coligny
1582 On August - 22 king James IV of Scotland captured
1603 On this day in history 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
1614 On August - 22 trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1615 On this day in history christopher Gibbons, composer
1632 On August - 22 prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht
1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers on August - 22.
1642 English Civil War begins on this day in history.
1642 On August - 22 civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament
1647 On this day in history denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)
1654 On August - 22 jacob Barsimson, said to be first Jewish immigrant to America, lands at New Amsterdam
1654 Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree, one ot the first Jewish colonists on this day in history.
1680 Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67 on this day in history.