What happend on 22nd August

21.08
23.08
1780

James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)

1775

King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion

1770

James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia

1717

Spanish troops land on Sardinia

1654

Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States

1642

Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War

1559

Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy

1485

The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses