Historical Events In August - 22
Friday, 25 October 2024
0392 Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor on this day in history.
0408 Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48 on this day in history.
0476 Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop on August - 22.
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 August - 22.
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 this day in history.
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 On this day in history philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies
1367 Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57 on August - 22.
1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus on this day in history.
1485 On this day in history richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets
1485 On August - 22 battle of Bosworth Field
1485 On this day in history richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32
1530 Bartolomeo Spontone, composer on this day in history.
1532 On August - 22 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 this day in history.
1572 Failed assassination on admiral De Coligny on this day in history.
1582 On this day in history king James IV of Scotland captured
1603 On August - 22 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt on August - 22.
1615 Christopher Gibbons, composer on this day in history.
1632 Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht on this day in history.
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 On August - 22 english Civil War begins
1642 On August - 22 civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament
1647 Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine) on August - 22.
1654 On August - 22 jacob Barsimson, said to be first Jewish immigrant to America, lands at New Amsterdam
1654 On August - 22 jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree, one ot the first Jewish colonists
1680 On August - 22 johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67