Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Significance of April 22 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1674  Netherlands and Munster sign peace treaty.   

1676  Battle of Etna   

1677  Battle at Catania: between French and Dutch fleet   

1682  Willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter   

1690  John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42).   

1692  Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft.   

1699  Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53   

1707  Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones)   

1722  19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed.   

1722  Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies.   

1724  Immanuel Kant, German philosopher is born   

1724  Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason).   

1728  Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus," premieres in Paris.   

1766  Madame de Stael, French writer is born.   

1769  Madame du Barry is recorded as becoming King Louis XV's "official" mistress   

1773  Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader   

1775  Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen).   

1776  Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67   

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

1778  James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies.   

1781  Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer.   

1782  Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66   

1788  Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46.   

1793  Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US   

1796  Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi.   

1799  Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist (blood pressure).   

1804  Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola.   

1809  Battle at Eckmuhl.   

1816  Philip James Bailey, English poet (Festus).   

1817  Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight.   

1818  Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers).   

1821  John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52.   

1823  Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London   

1823  Alfred Gibbs, Major General (Union Army), died in 1868.   

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