Events & Holidays In December - 22

Army Day (Vietnam)

Las Posadas (9 days) (Mexico)

Winter Solstice Holiday (Hong Kong)

1095  On this day in history birth of roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)   

1178  On this day in history birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)   

1400  Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden) was born on this day in history.   

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on this day in history.   

1452  On this day in history birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer   

1459  On this day in history birth of djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II   

1515  Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland was born on this day in history.   

1523  On this day in history birth of charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen   

1100  On this day in history death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia   

1337  On this day in history daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54   

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on this day in history.   

1440  Death of Bluebeard, pirate, executed on this day in history.   

1550  Death of Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III on this day in history.   

1603  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on this day in history.   

1646  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on this day in history.   

1660  Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) on this day in history.