Page 3: Historical Events In December - 22

1815  Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian on December - 22.   

1815  On December - 22 jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards   

1819  On this day in history franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor   

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 December - 22.   

1821  On December - 22 giovanni Bottesini, composer   

1826  James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901) on December - 22.   

1828  Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies on December - 22.   

1830  Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope) on December - 22.   

1831  On December - 22 mark Rutherford, writer   

1832  On this day in history hMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands   

1832  On this day in history edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889   

1832  Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 on December - 22.   

1842  Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet on this day in history.   

1844  Izydor Lotto, composer on December - 22.   

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

1846  Andreas Hallen, composer on this day in history.   

1849  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 on December - 22.   

1849  The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second on December - 22.   

1849  On December - 22 fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism)   

1851  On December - 22 the first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.   

1853  Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor on December - 22.   

1856  Frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929) on December - 22.   

1857  George [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist on December - 22.   

1858  The birth of Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer on this day in history.   

1859  On December - 22 in Winnipeg Manitoba the Nor'Wester newspaper is first published on the Canadian Prairies   

1859  Cecil [James] Sharp, London England, folk musician on this day in history.   

1861  On this day in history 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  On this day in history connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950)   

1863  On this day in history ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter   

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

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

1866  Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer on December - 22.   

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1095  On December - 22 birth of roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)   

1178  Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185) was born on December - 22.   

1400  On December - 22 birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)   

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

1515  On this day in history birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland   

1523  On this day in history birth of charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen   

1100  On this day in history death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia   

1337  Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on December - 22.   

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on this day in history.   

1440  On this day in history death of bluebeard, pirate, executed   

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

1603  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on this day in history.   

1646  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on December - 22.   

1660  Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) on December - 22.