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  On this day in history birth of philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)  

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  On this day in history birth of barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)  

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

1715  On this day in history birth of jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)  

1072  Death of Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007) on this day in history.  

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

1253  Dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

1286  On this day in history mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60  

1345  On this day in history death of henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)  

1392  On this day in history death of aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22  

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

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