-On August 22, 392, the Roman emperor, Eugene Flavi of Illyrian origin, was crowned. He ascended the throne after the death of Valentinian II, also of Illyrian origin. Eugene was an educated man and taught rhetoric. He was killed on the battlefield in September 394.

-On August 22, 1879, the representatives of the Interprovincial Committee of Prizren presented a note of protest to the Great Powers. They would not recognize any change in the provincial border with Montenegro, without the participation of the international commission and the leaders of the Albanian League. This caused the International Commission to stop work and suspend the trip to Plava and Gucia.

-On August 22, 1880, the Turkish marshal Riza Pasha called the leaders of the Shkodër branch of the Albanian League of Prizren, and the clergy of the country. In the meeting, it was clearly understood that the Ottoman Government and the Great Powers would not support the efforts to include Ulqin in the Albanian territories.

-On August 22, 1909, Faik Konica was appointed director of the newspaper “Dielli” /The Sun/ in Boston, the media of the Association of Albanians in the United States. Faik Konica was the founder and director of the magazine “Albania”.

-On August 22, 1912, the Korça patriots led by Themistokli Gërmenji triumphantly entered Korça, occupied by the Ottomans.

-On August 22, 1918, Mr. Robert Ashtaj was born in Shkodër. He studied philosophy and theology. After being ordained a priest in Treviso, Italy, he served in the parishes of Dukagjin and Mirdita. After the reopening of religious institutions, he celebrated the first public mass in Bajza on November 18, 1990. Pope John Paul II, during his visit to Albania, ordained Robert Ashta bishop of the Diocese of the Kult. He passed away on April 12, 1998 at the age of 80 in the mountains of Dukagjin.

-On August 22, 1924, Fan Noli together with Luigj Gurakuqin and Bajram Currin took part in the fifth session of the assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva. They openly denounced the massacre of Greek soldiers in the south of the country.

-On August 22, 1971, Gjergji Canco, the teacher of the people, passed away in Tirana. He was born in Korça in 1906. During his schooling, he was the secretary of the “Shpresa” /The Hope/ patriotic society of lyceum students. For a quarter of a century, he directed the “7 November” Polytechnic in the capital, one of the largest secondary schools in the country.

-On August 22, 1994, the Council of Ministers decided to include Karavasta Lagoon and Divjaka National Park in the list of internationally important wetlands of the Ramsar convention. By signing the convention, Albania agreed to protect the ecological character of this area and all the wetlands in the country.

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