User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/August 22

August 22

 * 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses
 * 1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia
 * 1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue
 * 1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion
 * 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
 * 1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
 * 1941 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad
 * 1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)