On this day: 22 February
Events, births and deaths on 22 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
- Events · TVB J5
100 years ago1926
- Births · Kenneth Williams
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 970 · Deaths · García Sánchez I of Pamplona
- 1071 · Deaths · Arnulf III, Count of Flanders
- 1111 · Deaths · Roger Borsa
Events · 17
- 1316Battle of Picotin — 1316 battle between Achaea and Majorca
- 1651St. Peter's Flood — storm surge
- 1797Battle of Fishguard — 1797 invasion of Great Britain by the French First Republic
- 1847Battle of Buena Vista — 1847 battle of the Mexican–American War
- 1848French Revolution of 1848 — one of a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe
- 1944Bombing of Nijmegen — 1944 Allied aerial bombing of Dutch city during World War II
- 19591959 Daytona 500 — auto race run in Florida in 1959
- 19721972 Aldershot bombing — 1972 action by the Official IRA
- 1979Saint Lucia — island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea
- 1980Miracle on Ice — ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York
- 1986People Power Revolution — series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines in 1986 that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos
- 20052005 Zarand earthquake — earthquake in Zarand County, Iran
- 20062006 al-Askari mosque bombing — unclaimed attack on a Shia Islamic mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra
- 2011February 2011 Christchurch earthquake — February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand
- 20122012 Buenos Aires rail disaster — train wreck
- 2016TVB J5 — television station in Hong Kong
- 2019North Korean Embassy in Madrid incident — 2019 incident
Births · 60
- 1403(Julian date)Charles VII of France — monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France (1403-1461)
- 1440Ladislaus the Posthumous — King of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, Duke of Austria
- 1514(Julian date)Tahmasp I — Safavid Shah of Iran from 1524 to 1576
- 1732George Washington — Founding Father and first U.S. president (1732–1799)
- 1788Arthur Schopenhauer — German philosopher (1788-1860)
- 1796Adolphe Quetelet — Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist (1796-1874)
- 1819James Russell Lowell — American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)
- 1824Pierre Janssen — French astronomer (1824-1907)
- 1840August Bebel — German social democrat politician (1840–1913)
- 1857Heinrich Hertz — German physicist (1857–1894)
- 1857Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell — lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)
- 1864Jules Renard — French author (1864-1910)
- 1879Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted — Danish physical chemist (1879–1947)
- 1886Hugo Ball — German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)
- 1887Savielly Tartakower — Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)
- 1889R. G. Collingwood — British historian and philosopher (1889–1943)
- 1892Edna St. Vincent Millay — American poet (1892–1950)
- 1900Luis Buñuel — Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)
- 1903Frank P. Ramsey — British mathematician, philosopher, and economist (1903–1930)
- 1908John Mills — British actor (1908–2005)
- 1908Rómulo Betancourt — President of Venezuela (1908-1981)
- 1914Renato Dulbecco — Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012)
- 1918Robert Wadlow — American who was the tallest recorded person in history (1918–1940)
- 1921Jean-Bedel Bokassa — 2nd president (1966–76) and emperor (r. 1976–79) of the Central African Republic
- 1921Giulietta Masina — Italian actress (1921–1994)
Deaths · 60
- 556(Julian date)Maximianus of Ravenna — archbishop of Ravenna
- 606(Julian date)Sabinian — pope
- 970(Julian date)García Sánchez I of Pamplona — King of Pamplona from 925 to 970
- 1071(Julian date)Arnulf III, Count of Flanders — Count of Flanders (1054-1071)
- 1111Roger Borsa — Italo-Norman noble (1085-1111)
- 1297(Julian date)Margaret of Cortona — Italian penitent (1247-1297)
- 1371David II of Scotland — King of Scotland from 1329 to 1371
- 1512(Julian date)Amerigo Vespucci — Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
- 1627Olivier van Noort — Dutch merchant captain, first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world (1558-1627)
- 1674Jean Chapelain — French poet and critic
- 1680Catherine Deshayes — Alleged sorceress
- 1690Charles Le Brun — 17th-century French painter and art theorist (1619—1690)
- 1731Frederik Ruysch — Dutch botanist and anatomist (1638-1731)
- 1799Heshen — Chinese politician (1750-1799)
- 1809Ludwig von Cobenzl — Austrian politician (1753-1809)
- 1815Smithson Tennant — British chemist (1761-1815)
- 1816Adam Ferguson — Scottish philosopher and historian; (1723-1816)
- 1875Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot — French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)
- 1875Charles Lyell — British geologist (1797–1875)
- 1890Carl Bloch — Danish painter (1834–1890)
- 1903Hugo Wolf — Austrian composer (1860–1903)
- 1904Leslie Stephen — English writer and mountaineer (1832–1904)
- 1913Ferdinand de Saussure — Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
- 1913Francisco I. Madero — Mexican revolutionary leader and president (1873-1913)
- 1913Empress Dowager Longyu — Chinese empress during the end of the Qing dynasty (1868-1913)
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