On 22nd February 1643, Queen Henrietta Maria landed in Bridlington Quay with arms from Holland for the Royalist army based at York. photo shows a memorial to the event in Bridlington
On 22nd February 1919, Percy Cawkwell, 22 of Hull, was discharged in Nottinghamshhire from the Royal Army Medical Corps; he had served as a stretcher bearer in France, Belgium and Italy. He set off on the train for his home in Hull.