Events & Holidays In September - 22

American Business Women's Day (United States of America)

Birthday of Princess Martha Louise (Norway)

Days of Liberation (Bulgaria)

Independence Day (Mali)

World Car-Free Day (International)

1290  On this day in history birth of bilbo Baggins, (in Shire Reconning)   

1515  On this day in history birth of anna van Kleef, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII   

1547  Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590) was born on this day in history.   

1601  On this day in history birth of anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III   

1606  Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645) was born on this day in history.   

1680  Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747) was born on this day in history.   

1694  On this day in history birth of lord Chesterfield, letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752)   

1715  On this day in history birth of jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)   

1072  On this day in history death of ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)   

1197  On this day in history petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies   

1253  Dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1286  On this day in history mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60   

1345  Death of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281) on this day in history.   

1392  On this day in history death of aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22   

1399  On this day in history death of thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)   

1408  Johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), dies on this day in history.