Historical Events In December - 22

0401  On this day in history st Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope   

0795  Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I on December - 22.   

1022  On this day in history elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)   

1100  Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on December - 22.   

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

1193  On this day in history saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)   

1216  Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus" on December - 22.   

1337  On this day in history daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54   

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

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

1428  On December - 22 richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury   

1440  On this day in history bluebeard, pirate, executed   

1452  On December - 22 jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer   

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

1465  On this day in history peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik   

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

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

1536  English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal on this day in history.   

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

1573  On December - 22 ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen   

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

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

1624  On this day in history tomas Micieres, composer   

1639  The birth of Jean Racine, French playwright on December - 22.   

1642  Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente on December - 22.   

1643  On this day in history rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana)   

1668  Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies on this day in history.   

1684  Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum) on this day in history.   

1688  On this day in history pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York   

1689  Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck on this day in history.   

1696  On December - 22 james Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia)   

1700  On this day in history egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent   

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

1428  On December - 22 birth of richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury   

1452  On December - 22 birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer   

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

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  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on December - 22.   

1337  Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on December - 22.   

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

1550  On this day in history death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III   

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

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

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