What is August 23?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === *[[30 BC]] &ndash; After a successful invasion of [[Egypt]], [[Octavian]] has [[Marcus Antonius Antyllus]] and [[Caesarion]] executed. *[[79]] &ndash; [[Mount Vesuvius]] starts to show activity, a day before it erupted, destroying [[Pompeii]] and [[Herculaneum]]. *[[406]] &ndash; Gothic king [[Radagaisus]] is executed after he is defeated by Roman general [[Stilicho]]. *[[476]] &ndash; [[Odoacer]], chieftain of the Germanic tribes, is proclaimed [[King]] of [[Italy]] by his troops. *[[1244]] &ndash; [[Siege]] of [[Jerusalem]]: The city's citadel, the [[Tower of David]], surrenders to the [[Kharezmian Empire]]. *[[1305]] &ndash; [[William Wallace]] is executed. *[[1328]] &ndash; [[Battle of Kassel]]: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers *[[1328]] &ndash; King [[Philip VI of France]] is crowned. *[[1382]] &ndash; [[Siege]] of [[Moscow]]: The [[Golden Horde]] led by [[khan]] [[Tokhtamysh]] lays siege to the capital of the [[Grand Duchy of Moscow]]. *[[1521]] &ndash; [[Christian II of Denmark]] is deposed as [[King]] of [[Sweden]] and [[Gustav Vasa]] is elected regent. *[[1540]] &ndash; French explorer [[Jacques Cartier]] lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. *[[1566]] &ndash; Calvinists are granted rights in the [[Netherlands]]. *[[1592]] &ndash; [[Japan]]ese invasions of [[Korea]]: [[Yeongwon Castle]] is besieged by the [[Japan]]ese Fourth Division, led by [[Ito Suketaka]]. *[[1614]] &ndash; The [[University of Groningen]] is established. *[[1617]] &ndash; In London, the first one–way street is established. *[[1628]] &ndash; [[George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham]] is [[Assassination|assassinated]] by [[John Felton]]. *[[1651]] &ndash; [[Charles II]] enters [[Worcester]] and starts a battle. *[[1655]] &ndash; [[Battle of Sobota]]: The [[Swedish Empire]] led by [[Charles X Gustav]] defeats the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. *[[1784]] &ndash; [[Eastern Tennessee]] declares itself an independent state under the name of [[State o