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  Giovanni Bottesini, composer on this day in history.  

1826  James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901) on this day in history.  

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 December - 22.  

1831  Mark Rutherford, writer on this day in history.  

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 December - 22.  

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

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

1844  On December - 22 izydor Lotto, composer  

1845  On December - 22 the first voice synthesizer, later known as P.T. Barnum's Euphonium, was demonstrated to the public in Philadelphia on this day in 1845.  

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  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  On this day in history the first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.  

1853  Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor on December - 22.  

1856  Frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929) on December - 22.  

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

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

1859  On this day in history in Winnipeg Manitoba the Nor'Wester newspaper is first published on the Canadian Prairies  

1859  On this day in history cecil [James] Sharp, London England, folk musician  

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 this day in history.  

1861  On December - 22 erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology)  

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

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

1863  Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter on this day in history.  

1863  On this day in history 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  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  Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185) was born on December - 22.  

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

1428  On December - 22 birth of richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury  

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  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  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  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 December - 22.  

1646  On December - 22 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.