Historical Events In August - 22
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0392 Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. 

0408 Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48 

0476 Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop 

0565 St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness 

0634 Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies. 

0851 Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland 

1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard 

1241 Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies. 

1280 Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies 

1286 Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered 

1350 Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies 

1367 Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57. 

1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus. 

1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets 

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field 

1485 Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32. 

1530 Bartolomeo Spontone, composer 

1532 William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82 

1543 Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren. 

1553 John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded 

1559 Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic. 

1572 Failed assassination on admiral De Coligny. 

1582 King James IV of Scotland captured. 

1603 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam. 

1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase and plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt 

1615 Christopher Gibbons, composer. 

1632 Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht. 

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

1642 English Civil War begins 

1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament. 

1647 Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine) 

1654 Jacob Barsimson, said to be inaugural Jewish immigrant to America, lands at New Amsterdam. 

1654 Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree, one ot the inaugural Jewish colonists. 

1680 Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67 

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