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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on August 23rd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On August 23, 1244, the main central citadel of the city of Jerusalem, the Tower of David, fell to the invaders from the remnants of the Khwarezmian Empire, a vast polyglot land that included parts of what is now Iran and Afghanistan along with other areas in Central Asia. On August 23, 1305, William Wallace, a military leader of the Scots against…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on August 22nd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England died from wounds received in the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last English King to die in battle. On August 22, 1639, the British East India Company founded a city they called Madras in Southern India on the Bay of Bengal on land they bought from local Nayak leaders, a mere three mile…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on August 21st.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On August 21, 1791, a voodoo, or alternately “vodou,” ceremony at Bois Caïman, Haiti, was the scene of the first major assembly of African slaves in Haiti, an event that led to the slave rebellion known as the Haitian Revolution. On August 21, 1888, American inventor William Seward Burroughs of New York patented the first successful American adding machine, a device that remained in service…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on August 20th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On either August 20 or September 8-10, 480 BC, the Persians defeated the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae. On August 20, 1858, naturalist Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, the change of organisms over time through mutation and natural selection, in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. On August 20, 1882, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture made…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on August 19th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On August 19, 1612, three women from Samlesbury in Lancashire, England were put on trial for witchcraft. A letter written on August 19, 1665 or 1666 was found inside the cover of The Voynich manuscript, an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. On August 19, 1839, the government of France announced that the “Daguerreotype process,” an invention of Louis Daguerre as…