392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 – Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
565 – Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 – English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire. Banners of various saints carried into battle led to the name Battle of the Standard.
1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus.
1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle, and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1543 Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren
1559 – Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza is arrested for heresy.
1572 Failed assassination on Gaspard de Coligny, a French nobleman and admiral, a Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion (killed 2 days later)
1582 King James VI of Scotland captured
1603 1st stones laid in Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam.
1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt.
1632 Prince Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange 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 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
1707 Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon.
1707 Sweden & Prussia sign military treaty.
1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1770 – 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.
1775 – King George of England proclaims the American Colonies to be in a state of open rebellion.
1776 – British forces arrived off Long Island during the American Revolution. Just a few days later they would fight against Americans in one of the war’s largest battles.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England, Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage.
1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton.
1788 Sierra Leone settled by British as a haven for former slaves.
1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue under voodoo priest Boukman,
1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1812 Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is the 1st European to rediscover the Nabataean city of Petra (modern Jordan),
1826 Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah,
1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
1831 – 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.
1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
1851 – 100 Guineas Cup is raced around Isle of Wight; US schooner 'America' beats British cutter 'Aurora' by 24 minutes; first competition for the America's Cup yachting trophy,
1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia.
1862 Battle of Catlett's Station, VA.
1862 Santee Sioux Indians attack Fort Ridgely.
1864 – First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations.
1865 William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap.
1872 Australia's Overland Telegraph Line connected - one of Australia's greatest logistical and engineering feats, allowed fast communications between Australia and the world for the first time.
1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1877 Nez Perce (Niimíipu) Indians flee into Yellowstone National Park.
1894 Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
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1906 First Victor Victrola manufactured.
1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan after 5 years as a protectorate with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
1914 Battle at Charleroi begins: Gen von Bulows troops beat French
1914 1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium)
1914 Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny & Virton
1914 Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1914 General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg, East Prussia
1914 German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines, Belgium
1914 – WW1: Von Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg move into East Prussia enroute to Russia
1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI
1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na Bláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1926 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1926 Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out
1932 – The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
1933 International Zionists Congress opens in Prague
1939 Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1939 Premier De Geer recalls Dutch holidaymakers in Black Forest
1941 – World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad. Lasting 872 days, it was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history.
1942 – World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
1943 Soviet troops free Karkov
1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1945 Noël Coward's revue "Sigh no More" premieres in London
1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1949 – Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in a US national tennis competition.
1952 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1953 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi returns to Tehran
1954 WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Elvis Presley begins filming "Love Me Tender" (The Reno Brothers)
1956 US President Eisenhower and VP Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 Cincinnati Reds future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs (6 RBIs) in 11-4 win over St. Louis Cardinals at Crosley Field
1959 American Football League officially named at a meeting in Dallas, Texas; charter members Dallas, NY, Houston, Denver, LA and Minneapolis-Saint Paul
1961 – Ida Siekmann dies attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
1962 – An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1963 – NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in the X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m, 67 miles)
1964 Guinee, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market
1964 Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1
1964 Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer speaks at the US Democratic National Convention about her efforts to register to vote in Mississippi
1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1966 The Beatles arrive in New York City and hold two press conferences, one for the press and one for their fans
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1968 The Society of Labour Lawyers (SLL) publishes an 'interim report' about alleged discrimination in Northern Ireland; the report is heavily criticised by unionists.
1969 The Beatles last official group photo session, at John & Yoko's home 'Tittenhurst Park', near Ascot.
1971 Bolivian military coup led by army Col. Hugo Banzer, drives out leftist President Juan José Torres
1971 – FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and US Attorney General John Mitchell announce arrest of 20 of the "Camden 28", a religious-left anti-war activist group intent on disrupting the military draft in Camden, New Jersey.
1971 Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial).
1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its racist policies.
1972 IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post at Newry, County Down - 9 people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion.
1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. The first demand is executed eighteen days later in a bloody coup d'état, commencing 17 years of military rule.
1975 McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
1978 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
1979 200 black leaders meet in NY to support Andrew Young
1980 Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
1980 Leaders of Port Elizabeth's Black secondary school children in South Africa decided to end a four month boycott of classes
1982 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1984 Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush
1984 The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament
1984 – PC Brian Bishop, a British police officer, is shot in the head by an armed robber in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. He dies from his injuries five days later.
1984 – The last Volkswagen Rabbit is produced.
1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on an Airtours Boeing-737 that crashes Manchester Airport.
1986 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1986 "Stand By Me" film based on the novella by Stephen King, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell is released
1988 Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
1988 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1990 US President George H. W. Bush calls up military reserves
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1994 DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
1994 Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands
1996 ANC makes its first submission to Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. The combined run total is also Major League record.
2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day.
2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
2012 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
2012 Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization.
2013 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq.
2014 2nd Ebola death in Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country
2015 A vintage Hawker Hunter plane crashes onto the A27 dual carriageway road during the Shoreham airshow in Britain killing at least 11.
2017 India's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq).
2017 Missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence.
2018 Longest ever bull market for Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index at 3,453 days (using 19.9 percent decline in 1990 as the start, usually 20%).
2018 Discovery of a bone of a 90,000 hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia published in "Nature".
2018 Forbes say George Clooney made more money in a single year ($239 million) than any actor ever ($239m), due to sale of alcohol company, followed by Dwayne Johnson ($124m).
2018 Australia's House of Representatives is closed down early because of the Liberal Party leadership battle.
2019 South Korea says it is leaving an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan in an escalation of the rift between the two countries.
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2019 Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
2019 Bielefeld in Germany offers €1m prize to anyone in who can prove the town doesn't exist to disprove 25-year-old conspiracy theory.
2020 13 people die in a stampede at an illegal disco in Lima, Peru, during a police raid to shut it down.
2020 Fires burning in Northern California declared Major Disaster with LNU Lightning Complex Fire (341,243 acres) and SCU Lightning Complex Fire (339,968) among the 3 largest wildfires in state history.
2020 Mexican COVID-19 death toll passes 60,000, world's third highest.
2021 Tropical storm Henri makes landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island.
2021 Josephine Baker will be the first black woman to be interred in the Panthéon in Paris, according to the French government.
2021 US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Singapore to begin a short visit to South East Asia.
2022 Dr. Anthony Fauci announces he will step down as chief medical advisor to the US President and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
2022 One of world's longest school closures ends in the Philippines as schools reopen for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic after only online learning.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Double.
Commemoration of SS. Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, Martyrs.
Commemoration of SS. Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Queenship of Mary
Symphorian and Timotheus
Queenship of Mary
Symphorian and Timotheus
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Afterfeast of the Dormition
Martyrs Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his companions:
Zoticus, Theoprepius, Acindynus, Severian, Zeno, and others,
who suffered under Maximian (4th century)
Hieromartyr Athanasius, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, by beheading (c. 257)
Saint Anthusa of Seleucia (298), and Martyrs Charesimus and Neophytus (c. 253-259)
Martyrs Irenaeus, Or, and Oropsus.
Martyr Julian of Heliopolis in Syria (c. 362)
Saint Ariadne (515), daughter of Emperor Leo I
Saint Antoninus of Rome, a converted executioner in Rome (186)
Saint Symphorian of Autun, martyred for refusing to sacrifice to a pagan goddess (2nd century)
Saint Hippolytus of Porto, Bishop of Porto in Italy, martyred by drowning under Alexander (236)
Hieromartyr Maurus, and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs in Rheims in France (260)
Saints Fabrician and Philibert, martyrs in Toledo in Spain.
Saints Martial, Saturninus, Epictetus, Maprilis, Felix and Companions,
martyrs with St. Aurea of Ostia, honoured in Ostia, Italy (c. 300)
Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona (303)
Saint Timothy, a martyr in Rome under Diocletian (c. 306)
Saint Gunifort, a pilgrim, perhaps from England, who was martyred in Pavia in Italy
Saint Sigfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth (c. 688)
Saint Ethelgitha, Abbess of a convent in Northumbria (c. 720)
Saint Andrew of Tuscany (c. 880)
Saint Arnulf of Eynesbury, saintly hermit, whose relics were venerated
in Arnulphsbury or Eynesbury in Cambridgeshire, England (9th century)
Saint Bogolep of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery (16th century)
Venerable Isaac I (Antimonov, the "Elder"), Schema-Archimandrite of Optina Monastery (1894)
Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and Priest John Vostorgov (1918)
Macarius (Gnevushev), Bishop of Orel, and Priests John Boyarshinov and Alexis Naumov (1918)
Theodore (Smirnov), Bishop of Penza, and with him Priests Basil Smirnov
and Gabriel Archangelsky (1937)
John (Troyansky), Bishop of Veliki Luki (1937)
Alexis (Orlov), Archbishop of Omsk (1937)
Andrew (Ukhtomsky), Archbishop of Ufa and Menzelin (1937)
Hierotheus (Glazkov), Hieromonk, of Lyubim (Yaroslasvl) (1937)
John (Laba) and Hilarion (Tsurikov), Hieromonks, of Mirzoyan (Kazakhstan) (1937)
Alexander Ratkovsky, Michael Lyubertsev and Theodore Malyarovsky, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Gorazd (Pavlík), Bishop of Prague, Bohemia and Moravo-Cilezsk,
slain by Nazis (1942)
Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece (c. 829–842)
Georgian Icon (Iveron Icon, Iverskaya) of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Monastery
of St. Alexis of Moscow (1650)
Afterfeast of the Dormition
Martyrs Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his companions:
Zoticus, Theoprepius, Acindynus, Severian, Zeno, and others,
who suffered under Maximian (4th century)
Hieromartyr Athanasius, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, by beheading (c. 257)
Saint Anthusa of Seleucia (298), and Martyrs Charesimus and Neophytus (c. 253-259)
Martyrs Irenaeus, Or, and Oropsus.
Martyr Julian of Heliopolis in Syria (c. 362)
Saint Ariadne (515), daughter of Emperor Leo I
Saint Antoninus of Rome, a converted executioner in Rome (186)
Saint Symphorian of Autun, martyred for refusing to sacrifice to a pagan goddess (2nd century)
Saint Hippolytus of Porto, Bishop of Porto in Italy, martyred by drowning under Alexander (236)
Hieromartyr Maurus, and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs in Rheims in France (260)
Saints Fabrician and Philibert, martyrs in Toledo in Spain.
Saints Martial, Saturninus, Epictetus, Maprilis, Felix and Companions,
martyrs with St. Aurea of Ostia, honoured in Ostia, Italy (c. 300)
Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona (303)
Saint Timothy, a martyr in Rome under Diocletian (c. 306)
Saint Gunifort, a pilgrim, perhaps from England, who was martyred in Pavia in Italy
Saint Sigfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth (c. 688)
Saint Ethelgitha, Abbess of a convent in Northumbria (c. 720)
Saint Andrew of Tuscany (c. 880)
Saint Arnulf of Eynesbury, saintly hermit, whose relics were venerated
in Arnulphsbury or Eynesbury in Cambridgeshire, England (9th century)
Saint Bogolep of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery (16th century)
Venerable Isaac I (Antimonov, the "Elder"), Schema-Archimandrite of Optina Monastery (1894)
Ephraim (Kuznetsov), Bishop of Selenginsk, and Priest John Vostorgov (1918)
Macarius (Gnevushev), Bishop of Orel, and Priests John Boyarshinov and Alexis Naumov (1918)
Theodore (Smirnov), Bishop of Penza, and with him Priests Basil Smirnov
and Gabriel Archangelsky (1937)
John (Troyansky), Bishop of Veliki Luki (1937)
Alexis (Orlov), Archbishop of Omsk (1937)
Andrew (Ukhtomsky), Archbishop of Ufa and Menzelin (1937)
Hierotheus (Glazkov), Hieromonk, of Lyubim (Yaroslasvl) (1937)
John (Laba) and Hilarion (Tsurikov), Hieromonks, of Mirzoyan (Kazakhstan) (1937)
Alexander Ratkovsky, Michael Lyubertsev and Theodore Malyarovsky, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Gorazd (Pavlík), Bishop of Prague, Bohemia and Moravo-Cilezsk,
slain by Nazis (1942)
Synaxis of Panagia Proussiotissa (Mother of God of Proussa) in Evrytania, Greece (c. 829–842)
Georgian Icon (Iveron Icon, Iverskaya) of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Monastery
of St. Alexis of Moscow (1650)
Coptic Orthodox
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