What is August 22?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[392]] &ndash; [[Arbogast]] is elected Roman Emperor. * [[476]] &ndash; [[Odoacer]] is proclaimed, by West Roman mercenaries, as ''Rex Italiae'', [[King of Italy]]. * [[1138]] &ndash; [[Battle]] of the Standard between [[Scotland]] and [[England]] near [[Northallerton]], [[Yorkshire]]. * [[1485]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Bosworth Field]] decisively ends the [[Wars of the Roses]]. [[Richard III of England]] dies, and [[Henry VII of England]] takes over, starting the period with the [[Tudor Dynasty]] ruling [[England]], lasting until [[1603]]. * [[1559]] &ndash; Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish [[archbishop]], is arrested for [[heresy]]. * [[1639]] &ndash; [[Madras]] (now [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]) is founded by the [[British East India Company]]. * [[1642]] &ndash; [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the [[English Civil War]] * [[1654]] &ndash; Jacob Barsimson arrives in [[New Amsterdam]]. He is the first [[Jewish]] [[immigrant]] to what is later the [[United States]] * [[1717]] &ndash; Spanish troops land on [[Sardinia]] * [[1770]] &ndash; [[James Cook]]'s expedition lands on the east coast of [[Australia]] * [[1775]] &ndash; King [[George III]] declares the American [[colonies]] to be in open rebellion * [[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: British forces abandon the [[Siege of Fort Stanwix]], after hearing rumors of [[Continental Army]] reinforcements. * [[1780]] &ndash; James Cook's ship ''Resolution'' returns to [[England]] (Cook having been killed on [[Hawaii]] during the voyage) * [[1791]] &ndash; Beginning of the [[Haiti]]an Slave Revolution * [[1827]] &ndash; [[Jose de la Mar]] becomes [[President]] of [[Peru]]. * [[1832]] &ndash; Dressed as an [[Arab]], Swiss [[Jean Louis Burckhardt]] reaches [[Petra]], the famous rock city in [[Jordan]]. In [[Europe]], it had until then only been rumored to exist. * [[1848]] &ndash; The [[United States]] annexes [[New Mexico]]. * [[1851]] &n