Historical Events In December - 22
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
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 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 December - 22.
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 On this day in history justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope)
1831 Mark Rutherford, writer on December - 22.
1832 On this day in history hMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1832 On this day in history edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1832 On this day in history ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72
1842 Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet on this day in history.
1844 On this day in history 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 Andreas Hallen, composer on December - 22.
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 this day in history.
1849 The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second on this day in history.
1849 Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism) on this day in history.
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 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 On this day in history 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 On December - 22 -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
1862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950) on December - 22.
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 December - 22 mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer
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