August 22 in history
Events on August 22
Notable events that happened on August 22 in past years.
- 2012
Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
Wikipedia article: 2012–2013 Tana River District clashes - 2004
Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
Wikipedia article: The Scream - 1991
Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
Wikipedia article: Iceland - 1978
Nicaraguan Revolution: The FSLN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages.
Wikipedia article: Nicaraguan Revolution - 1971
J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
Wikipedia article: J. Edgar Hoover - 1963
X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).
Wikipedia article: X-15 Flight 91 - 1944
World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
Wikipedia article: World War II - 1902
The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
Wikipedia article: Cadillac - 1894
Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
Wikipedia article: Mahatma Gandhi - 1849
Passaleão incident: João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, the governor of Portuguese Macau, is assassinated by a group of Chinese locals, triggering a military confrontation between China and Portugal at the Battle of Passaleão three days later.
Wikipedia article: Passaleão incident - 1791
The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
Wikipedia article: Haiti - 1717
Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
Wikipedia article: Sardinia - 1642
Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.
Wikipedia article: Charles I of England - 1485
The Battle of Bosworth Field occurs; King Richard III of England's death in battle marks the end of the reigning Plantagenet dynasty and the beginning of the Tudors under Henry VII.
- 392
Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
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