Events & Holidays In September - 22

American Business Women's Day (United States of America)

Birthday of Princess Martha Louise (Norway)

Days of Liberation (Bulgaria)

Independence Day (Mali)

World Car-Free Day (International)

1290  Bilbo Baggins, (in Shire Reconning) was born on this day in history.   

1515  On this day in history birth of anna van Kleef, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII   

1547  Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590) was born on this day in history.   

1601  Anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III was born on this day in history.   

1606  On this day in history birth of li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)   

1680  Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747) was born on this day in history.   

1694  Lord Chesterfield, letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752) was born on this day in history.   

1715  Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786) was born on this day in history.   

1072  On this day in history death of ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)   

1197  Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies on this day in history.   

1253  On this day in history dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53   

1286  Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1345  Death of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281) on this day in history.   

1392  Death of Aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22 on this day in history.   

1399  On this day in history death of thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)   

1408  Johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), dies on this day in history.