What is August 20?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[14]] &ndash; [[Agrippa Postumus]], adopted son of the deceased emperor [[Augustus]], is executed by his guards while in [[exile]] under mysterious circumstances. * [[636]] &ndash; [[Battle of Yarmuk]]: [[Arab]] forces led by [[Khalid bin Walid]] take control of [[Syria]] and [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] away from the [[Byzantine Empire]], marking the first great wave of [[Muslim]] conquests and the rapid advance of [[Islam]] outside [[Arabia]]. * [[917]] &ndash; [[Battle of Anchialus]]: Tsar [[Simeon I of Bulgaria]] invades [[Thrace]] and drives the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]] out. * [[1000]] &ndash; Date of the official founding of [[Hungary]] by [[Saint Stephen]]. * [[1083]] &ndash; [[Canonization]] of [[Saint Stephen]] of [[Hungary]] and his son, [[Saint Emeric]]. * [[1391]] &ndash; [[Konrad von Wallenrode]] becomes the 24th Hochmeister of [[Teutonic Order]]. * [[1467]] &ndash; The [[Second Battle of Olmedo]] takes place as part of the succession conflict between [[Henry IV of Castile]] and his half-brother, [[Alfonso, Prince of Asturias]]. * [[1519]] &ndash; [[Philosopher]] and [[General officer|General]] [[Wang Yangming]] defeats [[Zhu Chenhao]], ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the [[Ming Dynasty]]'s [[Zhengde Emperor]]. * [[1619]] &ndash; First [[African]]s arrive in the [[US]], transported by the [[Dutch people|Dutch]], and are sold as servants in [[Jamestown, Virginia]]. * [[1630]] &ndash; [[Lemonade]] is invented in [[Paris]], [[France]]. * [[1672]] &ndash; Former Grand Pensionary [[Johan de Witt]] and his brother, [[Cornelis de Witt]], are brutally [[murder]]ed by an angry mob in [[The Hague]]. * [[1707]] &ndash; The first [[Siege of Pensacola (1707)|Siege of Pensacola]] ends with the failure of the British to capture [[Pensacola]], [[Florida]], from the Spanish. * [[1710]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: A multinational (of different nationalities) [[army]] led by the [[Austria]]n [[commander]] [[Guido Starhemberg]