On this day: August 22

Events on August 22

• 1614 Fettmilch uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse. Wikipedia
• 1639 The Vijayanagara Empire leased a small strip of land in present-day Chennai, the capital of the present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu, to the East India Company. Wikipedia
• 1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. Wikipedia
• 1642 King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War. Wikipedia
• 1642 Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War. Wikipedia
• 1711 Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River. Wikipedia
• 1717 Spanish troops land on Sardinia. Wikipedia
• 1770 James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales. Wikipedia
• 1791 The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti. Wikipedia
• 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
• 1894 Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal. Wikipedia
• 1902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile. Wikipedia
• 1914 First World War: German forces captured Rossignol in Belgium, taking more than 3,800 French prisoners. Wikipedia
• 1914 First World War: A squadron of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards attacked a German scout party, the first engagement of British forces on the Western Front. Wikipedia
• 1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy. Wikipedia
• 1943 Ian Stephens, editor of The Statesman, defied British censorship to publish pictures of death and misery (example pictured) on Calcutta's streets, informing the world of the Bengal famine of 1943. Wikipedia
• 1944 World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces. Wikipedia
• 1962 An assassination attempt orchestrated by the OAS takes place against Charles de Gaulle, although he is uninjured. Wikipedia
• 1962 The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Wikipedia
• 1968 Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. Wikipedia
• 1973 The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections. Wikipedia
• 1991 Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states. Wikipedia
• 2003 Roy Moore, Alabama's chief justice, was suspended after refusing to comply with a U.S. federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Supreme Court of Alabama building. Wikipedia
• 2003 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama 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. Wikipedia
• 2004 Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. Wikipedia
• 2006 Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. Wikipedia

Born on August 22

• 1647 Denis Papin, French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (died 1712) Wikipedia
• 1760 Pope Leo XII (died 1829) Wikipedia
• 1862 Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (died 1918) Wikipedia
• 1874 Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (died 1928) Wikipedia
• 1887 Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1977) Wikipedia
• 1893 Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (died 1967) Wikipedia
• 1902 Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, film director and propagandist (died 2003) Wikipedia
• 1904 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1997) Wikipedia
• 1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (died 2004) Wikipedia
• 1915 James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist, co-designed the electron microscope (died 2007) Wikipedia
• 1917 John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001) Wikipedia
• 1920 Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (died 2012) Wikipedia
• 1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (died 2007) Wikipedia
• 1935 Annie Proulx, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist Wikipedia
• 1963 Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer Wikipedia
• 1964 Mats Wilander, Swedish-American tennis player and coach Wikipedia
• 1967 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, English actor Wikipedia
• 1973 Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter Wikipedia
• 1975 Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor Wikipedia
• 1993 Laura Dahlmeier, German biathlete (died 2025) Wikipedia
• 1995 Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter Wikipedia
• 1997 Lautaro Martínez, Argentine footballer Wikipedia

Died on August 22

• 1241 Pope Gregory IX, (born 1143) Wikipedia
• 1280 Pope Nicholas III (born 1225) Wikipedia
• 1350 Philip VI of France (born 1293) Wikipedia
• 1485 Richard III of England (born 1452) Wikipedia
• 1806 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (born 1732) Wikipedia
• 1891 Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (born 1834) Wikipedia
• 1903 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1830) Wikipedia
• 1922 Michael Collins, Irish rebel, counter-intelligence and military tactician, and politician; 2nd Irish Minister of Finance (born 1890) Wikipedia
• 1958 Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881) Wikipedia
• 1976 Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (born 1902) Wikipedia
• 1978 Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan politician, 1st President of Kenya (born 1894) Wikipedia
• 1986 Celâl Bayar, Turkish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Turkey (born 1883) Wikipedia
• 2009 Muriel Duckworth, Canadian pacifist, feminist, and activist (born 1908) Wikipedia
• 2023 Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter (born 1943) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Immaculate Heart of Mary (Roman Catholic calendar of 1960) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: John Kemble Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Queenship of Mary Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Symeon Lukach Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief Wikipedia
• Earliest day on which National Heroes' Day (Philippines) can fall, while August 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August. Wikipedia
• Flag Day (Russia) Wikipedia
• Madras Day (Chennai and Tamil Nadu, India) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “August 22” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.