Today in 1587 a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off present-day North Carolina to re-establish a deserted colony.

July 22 is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of the year.

Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

EVENTS

838 – Battle of Anzen: Byzantine Emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.

1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey de Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre.

1209 – Massacre of Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.

1298 – William Wallace fights the English at the Battle of Falkirk.

1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade - John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.

1499 – Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeats the army of Emperor Maximilian I.

1587 – Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off present-day North Carolina to re-establish a deserted colony.

1706 – The Acts of Union of 1707 are agreed upon by Commissioners from the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.

1786 – Albany, New York is officially chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.

1793 – Alexander McKenzie reaches the Pacific coast of North America, becoming the first Euro-American to cross Canada.

1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland", after General Moses Cleveland.

1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars.

1802 – Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unifies modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.

1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition - Battle of Cape Finisterre.

1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War - Battle of Salamanca.

1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta.

1894 – The first-ever motor race is held in France between Paris and Rouen.

1916 – A bomb explodes during a 'Preparedness Day' parade in Market Street in San Francisco, California, killing 10 people and injuring 40.

1927 – Sheep herder Killar Kashirov of the Kabardin people becomes the first person to reach the top of the Eastern summit of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia, considered the highest mountain in Europe.

1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, travelling 25,099 kilometres (15,596 miles) in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.

1934 – A man identified as American bank robber John Dillinger is shot dead.

1942 – World War II: Start of the fighting on the Kokoda Track in New Guinea between Australia and Japan.

1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo.

1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting Communist rule in Poland.

1946 – A terrorist attack on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem kills at least 91 people.

From 1951

1951 – Dezik and Tsygan are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.

1954 – Laos becomes independent from France.

1962 – The Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after take-off and has to be destroyed.

1969 – Francisco Franco declares that the Juan Carlos will be his successor.

1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes in World War II.

1977 – Deng Xiaoping returns to power in China.

1983 – Martial Law in Poland is officially revoked.

1986 – The United Kingdom bans corporal punishment in schools.

1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.

1992 – In Medellin, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury prison.

1993 – Kaskasia, Illinois, is evacuated in the Great Flood of 1993.

1994 – Gambia's President Dawda Jawara is removed from office in a coup, to be replaced by Yahya Jammeh.

2003 – A US airstrike on a compound in Mosul, Iraq, kills Saddam Hussein's sons Uday Hussein, Qusay Hussein (and his son Mustapha) and a security guard.

2005 – In London, officers of the Metropolitan Police shoot and kill Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes when he boards a tube train.

2005 – Yelena Isinbayeva becomes the first woman to clear 5 metres in the High Jump.

2009 – A Solar eclipse is seen over East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the longest such event of the 21st century. It is also believed to have been witnessed by more people than any solar eclipse in history.

2010 – The International Court of Justice rules that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia was not illegal.

2011 – 2011 Norway attacks: An explosion in Oslo city centre kills 8 people. Two hours later, 69 people are killed in a shooting at a political youth event on the island of Utoya, carried out by Anders Behring Breivik.

2012 – Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France.

2013 – Two earthquakes in Gansu province, People's Republic of China, kill at least 90 people.

2013 – A baby boy, Prince George of Cambridge, third in line to the British throne, is born to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. It comes just a day after nearby Belgium got its new King, Philippe.

2016 – Nine people are killed in a shooting in and around a shopping mall in Munich, Germany. The attacker then kills himself.

2019 – Jo Swinson becomes the first woman to be chosen to lead the British Liberal Democrats.