Page 2: Historical Events In April - 22

1674  Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty on April - 22.   

1676  Battle of Etna on April - 22.   

1677  Battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet on this day in history.   

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

1690  John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42) on this day in history.   

1692  Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft on April - 22.   

1699  On April - 22 hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53   

1707  Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones) on April - 22.   

1722  19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed on April - 22.   

1722  Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies on April - 22.   

1724  On April - 22 the birth of Immanuel Kant, German philosopher   

1724  On April - 22 immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)   

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

1766  On April - 22 the birth of Madame de Stael, French writer   

1769  Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress on April - 22.   

1773  Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history james Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies   

1781  Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer on April - 22.   

1782  On this day in history josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66   

1788  Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46 on this day in history.   

1793  Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US on April - 22.   

1796  Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi on April - 22.   

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

1804  On this day in history gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola   

1809  Battle at Eckmuhl on this day in history.   

1816  Philip James Bailey, English poet (Festus) on April - 22.   

1817  On April - 22 curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight   

1818  Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers) on April - 22.   

1821  On April - 22 john Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52   

1823  On this day in history baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London   

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

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1357  Johan I, King of Portugal (1383-1433) was born on April - 22.   

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 this day in history birth of mariana Alcoforado, Portugal, nun   

1658  Giuseppe Torelli, Italy, composer (Concert Grossi op 8) was born on April - 22.   

1682  On April - 22 birth of willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter   

1690  John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42) was born on April - 22.   

1692  On this day in history birth of james Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)   

0296  On April - 22 death of pope Caius   

0536  On April - 22 agapitus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies   

1253  On this day in history elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53   

1355  On this day in history eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward II, dies at 36   

1462  Gilbert of Lannoy, master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies on April - 22.   

1521  On April - 22 death of juan de Padilla, Spanish nobleman/communero-rebel, beheaded   

1592  Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1648  Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69 on April - 22.