A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Arbogast's Manipulation: Rise and Fall of Eugenius (+ 13 more historical events on this day!)

11 min • 22 augusti 2024

A Daily Dose of History (22 Aug 2024)

Today's historical events:

  • Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
  • Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
  • Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
  • The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
  • Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
  • Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
  • Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
  • Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.
  • Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
  • Britain's Quebec Expedition loses eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais.
  • Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
  • James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
  • British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
  • Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.

Information from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas

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