Historical Events In December - 22
Friday, 15 May 2026
0401 In this year, St Innocent I starts his reign as Catholic Pope 

0795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I. 

1022 Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996) 

1100 Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia 

1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king 

1193 Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137) 

1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus" 

1337 Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54. 

1400 Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden) 

1419 John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies 

1428 Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury 

1440 Bluebeard, pirate, executed. 

1452 Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer. 

1459 Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II. 

1465 Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon is recorded as becoming bishop of Luik 

1515 Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland 

1523 Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen 

1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal 

1550 Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III. 

1573 Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen 

1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die. 

1603 Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 

1624 Tomas Micieres, composer. 

1639 Jean Racine, French playwright is born. 

1642 In this year, Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente. 

1643 Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana). 

1668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies 

1684 Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum). 

1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York 

1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck 

1696 James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia) 

1700 Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent 

1702 Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Madame d'Epinay) 

1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach 

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