Page 2: Historical Events In April - 22

1674  On April - 22 netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty   

1676  On this day in history battle of Etna   

1677  On this day in history battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet   

1682  On this day in history willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter   

1690  On this day in history john Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)   

1692  Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft on this day in history.   

1699  Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1707  Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones) on this day in history.   

1722  On April - 22 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed   

1722  Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies on this day in history.   

1724  The birth of Immanuel Kant, German philosopher on this day in history.   

1724  Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) on April - 22.   

1728  Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus," premieres in Paris on April - 22.   

1766  The birth of Madame de Stael, French writer on April - 22.   

1769  On this day in history madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress   

1773  On this day in history jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader   

1775  Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen) on this day in history.   

1776  Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1778  Captain John Paul Jones of Ranger led landing party raid on Whitehaven, England on this day in history.   

1778  James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies on this day in history.   

1781  On April - 22 christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer   

1782  On April - 22 josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66   

1788  On this day in history zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46   

1793  On April - 22 pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US   

1796  Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi on this day in history.   

1799  On April - 22 jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist (blood pressure)   

1804  Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola on this day in history.   

1809  On April - 22 battle at Eckmuhl   

1816  Philip James Bailey, English poet (Festus) on this day in history.   

1817  On this day in history curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight   

1818  On April - 22 cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers)   

1821  John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1823  Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London on this day in history.   

1823  On this day in history alfred Gibbs, Major General (Union Army), died in 1868   

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1357  On this day in history birth of johan I, King of Portugal (1383-1433)   

1451  On April - 22 birth of isabella I, of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columbus   

1610  On April - 22 birth of alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italy, lawyer/Pope (1689-91)   

1640  On April - 22 birth of mariana Alcoforado, Portugal, nun   

1658  Giuseppe Torelli, Italy, composer (Concert Grossi op 8) was born on this day in history.   

1682  On this day in history birth of willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter   

1690  On April - 22 birth of john Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)   

1692  James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770) was born on this day in history.   

0296  Death of Pope Caius on April - 22.   

0536  Agapitus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies on April - 22.   

1253  On April - 22 elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53   

1355  Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward II, dies at 36 on April - 22.   

1462  On April - 22 gilbert of Lannoy, master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies   

1521  On this day in history death of juan de Padilla, Spanish nobleman/communero-rebel, beheaded   

1592  On April - 22 bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80   

1648  On April - 22 catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69