Page 3: Historical Events In December - 22

1815  On this day in history 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 December - 22.   

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  Giovanni Bottesini, composer on this day in history.   

1826  On this day in history james Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901)   

1828  On December - 22 rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies   

1830  Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope) on December - 22.   

1831  On December - 22 mark Rutherford, writer   

1832  On December - 22 hMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands   

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

1832  On December - 22 ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72   

1842  On this day in history jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet   

1844  Izydor Lotto, composer on this day in history.   

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 December - 22.   

1846  Andreas Hallen, composer on this day in history.   

1849  On December - 22 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.   

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

1849  On this day in history fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism)   

1851  The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India on December - 22.   

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

1856  On this day in history frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)   

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

1858  On December - 22 the birth of Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer   

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

1859  On December - 22 cecil [James] Sharp, London England, folk musician   

1861  On December - 22 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   

1861  Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology) on December - 22.   

1862  -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY on December - 22.   

1862  On December - 22 connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950)   

1863  Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter on December - 22.   

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

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

1866  Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer on this day in history.   

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1095  On December - 22 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  On December - 22 birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)   

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

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on this day in history.   

1100  On December - 22 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 December - 22.   

1550  On December - 22 death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III   

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

1646  On this day in history death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)   

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