Historical Events In December - 22

0401  St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope on December - 22.  

0795  On this day in history leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I  

1022  On December - 22 elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)  

1100  Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on this day in history.  

1135  On December - 22 norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king  

1193  Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137) on December - 22.  

1216  Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus" on this day in history.  

1337  On December - 22 daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54  

1400  Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden) on this day in history.  

1419  On December - 22 john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies  

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury on this day in history.  

1440  Bluebeard, pirate, executed on December - 22.  

1452  On December - 22 jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer  

1459  On this day in history djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II  

1465  On December - 22 peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik  

1515  Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland on December - 22.  

1523  On December - 22 charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen  

1536  On December - 22 english scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal  

1550  Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III on December - 22.  

1573  Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen on this day in history.  

1596  Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die on this day in history.  

1603  On this day in history mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37  

1624  On December - 22 tomas Micieres, composer  

1639  The birth of Jean Racine, French playwright on this day in history.  

1642  Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente on this day in history.  

1643  Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana) on December - 22.  

1668  On December - 22 stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies  

1684  On this day in history johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum)  

1688  Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York on this day in history.  

1689  On December - 22 heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck  

1696  James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia) on this day in history.  

1700  Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent on December - 22.  

1702  Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Madame d'Epinay) on December - 22.  

1710  On this day in history wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach  

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1095  On this day in history birth of roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)  

1178  On this day in history birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)  

1400  On this day in history birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)  

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on this day in history.  

1452  Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer was born on December - 22.  

1459  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on December - 22.  

1515  On December - 22 birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland  

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on December - 22.  

1100  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on this day in history.  

1337  On December - 22 daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54  

1419  On this day in history john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies  

1440  Death of Bluebeard, pirate, executed on December - 22.  

1550  Death of Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III on this day in history.  

1603  On this day in history mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37  

1646  On this day in history death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)  

1660  On December - 22 death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)