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What happened on 22 July?

6 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

  1. 1099 Kingdom of Jerusalem Godfrey of Bouillon refuses crown but accepts 'Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre'; his brother Baldwin I is crowned king on Christmas Day 1100.
  2. 1812 Battle of Salamanca Wellington crushes Marmont in a brilliant Spanish summer manoeuvre; turns the Peninsular War in the Allies' favour.
  3. 1456 Siege of Belgrade (1456) John Hunyadi and the crusade-preaching friar Capistrano break Mehmed II's siege of Belgrade, halting the Ottoman advance for 65 years; the noon bells still commemorate it.
  4. 1099 Godfrey refuses a crown in Jerusalem A week after the city falls, Godfrey of Bouillon is chosen to rule it — and declines the title of king, refusing 'a crown of gold where Christ wore a crown of thorns'. He takes 'Ad
  5. 1587 Roanoke Colony lost Raleigh's English settlement in Virginia vanishes, the famous 'Lost Colony'.
  6. 1921 Battle of Annual Abd el-Krim's Riffians rout the Spanish army at Annual, killing perhaps 10,000 soldiers in days — the 'Disaster of Annual' that destroyed Spain's Moroccan position and helped bring
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