Page 3: Historical Events In December - 22

1815  On December - 22 johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian   

1815  Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards on this day in history.   

1819  Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor on this day in history.   

1820  The 1820 Radicals, sentenced to transportation to Australia, set sail on the convict ship Speke. Only one, Andrew White, returned when pardoned to Scotland on this day in history.   

1821  On this day in history giovanni Bottesini, composer   

1826  James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901) on December - 22.   

1828  On this day in history rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies   

1830  Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope) on this day in history.   

1831  On December - 22 mark Rutherford, writer   

1832  HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands on this day in history.   

1832  On December - 22 edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889   

1832  Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1842  Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet on this day in history.   

1844  On December - 22 izydor Lotto, composer   

1845  The first voice synthesizer, later known as P.T. Barnum's Euphonium, was demonstrated to the public in Philadelphia on this day in 1845 on this day in history.   

1846  On December - 22 andreas Hallen, composer   

1849  Writer (Crime and Punishmen)Fyodor Dostoevsky is led before a firing squad and prepared for execution. He had been convicted and sentenced to death on November 16 for allegedly taking part in reprieved and sent into exile on December - 22.   

1849  The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second on December - 22.   

1849  On December - 22 fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism)   

1851  The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India on this day in history.   

1853  On December - 22 maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor   

1856  On December - 22 frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)   

1857  George [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist on December - 22.   

1858  The birth of Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer on December - 22.   

1859  In Winnipeg Manitoba the Nor'Wester newspaper is first published on the Canadian Prairies on December - 22.   

1859  Cecil [James] Sharp, London England, folk musician on December - 22.   

1861  Sara Jeannette Duncan, journalist, novelist, was born at Brantford, Ontario, she joined the Toronto Globe in 1886-87, as its first female full time journalist on December - 22.   

1861  On this day in history erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology)   

1862  On this day in history -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY   

1862  On this day in history connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950)   

1863  On December - 22 ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter   

1863  Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36 on December - 22.   

1864  On December - 22 hMS Bombay at Montevideo lost to fire off Montevideo, with the loss of nearly a hundred lives   

1866  On this day in history mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer   

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1095  Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154) was born on this day in history.   

1178  On December - 22 birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)   

1400  On this day in history birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)   

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on December - 22.   

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

1459  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on December - 22.   

1515  On December - 22 birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland   

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

1100  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on this day in history.   

1337  On December - 22 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 December - 22.   

1440  On December - 22 death of bluebeard, pirate, executed   

1550  On this day in history death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III   

1603  On December - 22 mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37   

1646  On December - 22 death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)   

1660  On December - 22 death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)