Holidays and observances on August 22

9 observances are celebrated on August 22 around the world: Christian feast day: Immaculate Heart of Mary (Roman Catholic calendar of 1960), Christian feast day: John Kemble, Christian feast day: Queenship of Mary, Christian feast day: Blessed Symeon Lukach, Christian feast day: August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.

56 documented historical events happened on August 22, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: At the Battle of Bosworth Field, Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses. On the same day, in another year: 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. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.