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 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  On December - 22 james Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901)   

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  Mark Rutherford, writer on December - 22.   

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

1832  Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 on this day in history.   

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

1842  On December - 22 jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet   

1844  Izydor Lotto, composer on December - 22.   

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 this day in history andreas Hallen, composer   

1849  On this day in history 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 this day in history the execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.   

1849  Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism) on this day in history.   

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

1853  Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor on this day in history.   

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

1857  On this day in history george [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist   

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 this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1863  On this day in history ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter   

1863  On December - 22 michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36   

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

1866  Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer on this day in history.   

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1095  Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154) was born on December - 22.   

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 December - 22.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1419  On this day in history john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies   

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 December - 22.   

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 December - 22.