Historical Events In August - 22
Friday, 21 February 2025
0392 On this day in history arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
0408 Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48 on August - 22.
0476 Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop on this day in history.
0565 On August - 22 st Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
0634 On August - 22 abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies
0851 Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland on this day in history.
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 On August - 22 nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies
1286 Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered on August - 22.
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 this day in history.
1454 On this day in history 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 Battle of Bosworth Field on this day in history.
1485 Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32 on this day in history.
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 August - 22.
1553 John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded on this day in history.
1559 Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic on August - 22.
1572 On this day in history failed assassination on admiral De Coligny
1582 On this day in history king James IV of Scotland captured
1603 On this day in history 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
1614 On this day in history trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1615 On this day in history christopher Gibbons, composer
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 August - 22.
1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament on August - 22.
1647 On this day in history denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)
1654 On this day in history 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 this day in history johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67