August 22: Feast day of the Queenship of Mary (Roman Catholic Church); Madras Day in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Chennai skyline
- 1138 – English forces repelled a Scottish army at the Battle of the Standard near Northallerton in Yorkshire.
- 1639 – The East India Company bought a small strip of land on what is today Chennai (modern skyline pictured), the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, from the King of the Vijayanagara Empire, Peda Venkata Raya.
- 1791 – A slave rebellion erupted in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, starting the Haitian Revolution.
- 1910 – Japan annexed Korea with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
- 2012 – A series of ethnic clashes between the Orma and Pokomo tribes of Kenya's Tana River District resulted in the deaths of at least 52 people.
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