WHAT HAPPENED ON 22. AUGUST
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Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. (22. August 392)

Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops. (22. August 476)

Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. (22. August 564)

Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. (22. August 851)

Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England. (22. August 1138)

The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet. (22. August 1485)

Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy. (22. August 1559)

Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. (22. August 1639)

Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins. (22. August 1642)

Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America. (22. August 1654)

Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River. (22. August 1711)

Spanish troops land on Sardinia. (22. August 1717)

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. (22. August 1770)

American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements. (22. August 1777)

James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage). (22. August 1780)

Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue. (22. August 1791)

French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion. (22. August 1798)

José de la Mar becomes President of Peru. (22. August 1827)

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. (22. August 1831)

The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established. (22. August 1846)