Page 3: Historical Events In December - 22

1815  On this day in history johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian   

1815  Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards on this day in history.   

1819  Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor on this day in history.   

1820  The 1820 Radicals, sentenced to transportation to Australia, set sail on the convict ship Speke. Only one, Andrew White, returned when pardoned to Scotland on this day in history.   

1821  Giovanni Bottesini, composer on December - 22.   

1826  James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901) on this day in history.   

1828  On this day in history rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies   

1830  Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope) on this day in history.   

1831  On this day in history mark Rutherford, writer   

1832  On December - 22 hMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands   

1832  Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 on December - 22.   

1832  On December - 22 ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72   

1842  Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet on December - 22.   

1844  On this day in history izydor Lotto, composer   

1845  On December - 22 the first voice synthesizer, later known as P.T. Barnum's Euphonium, was demonstrated to the public in Philadelphia on this day in 1845.   

1846  On this day in history andreas Hallen, composer   

1849  On December - 22 writer (Crime and Punishmen)Fyodor Dostoevsky is led before a firing squad and prepared for execution. He had been convicted and sentenced to death on November 16 for allegedly taking part in reprieved and sent into exile.   

1849  The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second on this day in history.   

1849  On this day in history fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism)   

1851  On this day in history the first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.   

1853  On this day in history maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor   

1856  On December - 22 frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)   

1857  George [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist on this day in history.   

1858  On this day in history the birth of Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer   

1859  On this day in history in Winnipeg Manitoba the Nor'Wester newspaper is first published on the Canadian Prairies   

1859  On December - 22 cecil [James] Sharp, London England, folk musician   

1861  On December - 22 sara Jeannette Duncan, journalist, novelist, was born at Brantford, Ontario, she joined the Toronto Globe in 1886-87, as its first female full time journalist   

1861  On December - 22 erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology)   

1862  -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY on this day in history.   

1862  Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950) on December - 22.   

1863  Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter on this day in history.   

1863  On December - 22 michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36   

1864  On December - 22 hMS Bombay at Montevideo lost to fire off Montevideo, with the loss of nearly a hundred lives   

1866  Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer on December - 22.   

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1095  Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154) was born on December - 22.   

1178  Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185) was born on this day in history.   

1400  Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden) was born on December - 22.   

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on December - 22.   

1452  On this day in history birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer   

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

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

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

1100  On December - 22 death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia   

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

1419  On December - 22 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  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on December - 22.   

1646  On December - 22 death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)   

1660  On this day in history death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)