95191 | August 21 | Holiday and observance | Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines) |
95192 | August 21 | Holiday and observance | Youth Day/King Mohammed VI's Birthday (Morocco) |
95193 | August 22 | Event | 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. |
95194 | August 22 | Event | 476 – Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops. |
95195 | August 22 | Event | 565 – Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. |
95196 | August 22 | Event | 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. |
95197 | August 22 | Event | 1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England. |
95198 | August 22 | Event | 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet. |
95199 | August 22 | Event | 1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy. |
95200 | August 22 | Event | 1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. |
95201 | August 22 | Event | 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins. |
95202 | August 22 | Event | 1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America. |
95203 | August 22 | Event | 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition flounders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River. |
95204 | August 22 | Event | 1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia. |
95205 | August 22 | Event | 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III. |
95206 | August 22 | Event | 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements. |
95207 | August 22 | Event | 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage). |
95208 | August 22 | Event | 1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue. |
95209 | August 22 | Event | 1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion. |
95210 | August 22 | Event | 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru. |
95211 | August 22 | Event | 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising. |
95212 | August 22 | Event | 1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established. |
95213 | August 22 | Event | 1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico. |
95214 | August 22 | Event | 1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice. |
95215 | August 22 | Event | 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America. |
95216 | August 22 | Event | 1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. |
95217 | August 22 | Event | 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands. |
95218 | August 22 | Event | 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded. |
95219 | August 22 | Event | 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile. |
95220 | August 22 | Event | 1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. |