Page 3: Historical Events In December - 22

1815  Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian   

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   

1821  Giovanni Bottesini, composer.   

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   

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

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

1440  Death of Bluebeard: Pirate, executed   

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

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

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

1660  André tacquet: Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)