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.
- 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.
- 1654 –Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
- 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.
- 1780 –James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
- 1827 –José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
- 1848 –The United States annexes New Mexico.
- 1851 –The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
- 1864 –12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
- 1902 –Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
- 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.
- 1932 –The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
- 1934 –Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
- 1944 –World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- 1952 –The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- 1966 –Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
- 1971 –J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
- 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.
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