Page 3: Historical Events In December - 22

1815  Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards   

1819  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.   

1826  James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901).   

1828  Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies.   

1830  Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope)   

1831  Mark Rutherford, writer   

1832  HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands   

1832  Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889.   

1832  Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72   

1842  Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet   

1844  Izydor Lotto, composer   

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

1846  Andreas Hallen, composer   

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.   

1849  The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second   

1849  Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism).   

1851  The inaugural freight train is operated in Roorkee, India   

1853  Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor   

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

1857  George [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist.   

1858  Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer is born   

1859  In Winnipeg Manitoba the Nor'Wester newspaper is inaugural published on the Canadian Prairies.   

1859  Cecil [James] Sharp, London England, folk musician.   

1861  Sara Jeannette Duncan, journalist, novelist, was born at Brantford, Ontario, she joined the Toronto Globe in 1886-87, as its inaugural female full time journalist   

1861  Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology).   

1862  -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY   

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

1863  Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter   

1863  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   

1866  Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer.   

1867  Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic   

1867  Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79.   

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1095  Roger ii of sicily: King of sicily   

1178  Emperor antoku of japan: Emperor antoku of japan (d. 1185)   

1400  Luca della robbia: Italy, sculptor (madonna of rose garden)   

1428  Richard neville warwick: 2nd earl of salisbury   

1452  Jakob obrecht: Brabant, composer   

1459  Djem sultan: Son of turks sultan mehmed ii   

1515  Mary of lorraine: France, pro-french regent of scotland   

1523  Charles "cardinal" of bourbon: Archbishop rouen   

1100  Duke bretislaus ii of bohemia: Duke bretislaus ii of bohemia   

1337  Daito kokushi: Leader of o-to-kan rinzai school in japan,   

1419  Death of John xxiii: [baldassare cossa], italian pope (1410-15),   

1440  Bluebeard: Pirate, executed   

1550  Death of Richard plantagenet possibly a son of richard iii: Richard plantagenet (richard of eastwell) possibly a son of richard iii   

1603  Mehmed iii: Sultan of turkey (1595-1603),   

1646  Death of Peter mogila: Orthodox metropolitan of kiev and galicia (b. 1596)   

1660  André tacquet: Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)