About August 22
August 22, 2025 is the 234th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 179 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 22
- 851 –Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
- 1138 –Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
- 1485 –The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
- 1642 –Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
- 1711 –Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker’s Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
- 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.
- 1831 –Nat Turner’s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
- 1864 –12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
- 1902 –Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
- 1922 –Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na mBláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
- 1926 –Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 1934 –Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
- 1942 –World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
- 1949 –Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
- 1950 –Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
- 1968 –Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- 1971 –J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
- 1972 –Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
- 2004 –A version 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.
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