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  Anna van Kleef, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII was born on this day in history.   

1547  On this day in history birth of philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)   

1601  On this day in history birth of anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III   

1606  Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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  Death of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366) on this day in history.   

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