Historical Events In August - 22
Monday, 30 January 2023
0392 Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor on August - 22.
0408 On August - 22 flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48
0476 On August - 22 odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
0565 On August - 22 st Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
0634 Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies on this day in history.
0851 On August - 22 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 this day in history.
1241 On August - 22 gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies
1280 Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies on August - 22.
1286 On this day in history erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered
1350 Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies on August - 22.
1367 On this day in history egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57
1454 On August - 22 jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets on August - 22.
1485 On August - 22 battle of Bosworth Field
1485 Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32 on this day in history.
1530 On this day in history bartolomeo Spontone, composer
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 August - 22.
1559 Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic on August - 22.
1572 Failed assassination on admiral De Coligny on this day in history.
1582 King James IV of Scotland captured on August - 22.
1603 On this day in history 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt on this day in history.
1615 Christopher Gibbons, composer on this day in history.
1632 Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht on August - 22.
1639 On August - 22 madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1642 English Civil War begins on this day in history.
1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament on this day in history.
1647 On August - 22 denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)
1654 Jacob Barsimson, said to be first Jewish immigrant to America, lands at New Amsterdam on this day in history.
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 On this day in history johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67