On this day: 22 April
Events, births and deaths on 22 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Pahalgam attack
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · James Stirling
- Births · Charlotte Rae
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1073 · Events · 1073 papal election
Events · 21
- 353(Julian date)Orchid Pavilion Gathering — cultural and poetic event during the Jin dynasty (266–420) of the Six Dynasties era, in China
- 1073(Julian date)1073 papal election — 1073 election of the Catholic pope
- 1500(Julian date)discovery of Brazil — Portuguese discovery in 1500
- 1529(Julian date)Treaty of Zaragoza — peace treaty between Spain and Portugal signed on 22 April 1529
- 1809Battle of Eckmühl — 1809 battle of the War of the Fifth Coalition
- 1889Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 — 1889 land rush in the US
- 19061906 Intercalated Games — non-olympic, international multi-sport event, in Athens, Greece
- 1918Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic — short-lived South Caucasian state (1918)
- 1930London Naval Treaty — agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, signed on 22 April 1930, which regulated submarine warfare and limited naval shipbuilding
- 1944Landing at Aitape — battle of the Western New Guinea campaign of World War II
- 1951Battle of Kapyong — 1951 battle
- 1966American Flyers Airline Flight 280 — 1966 aviation accident
- 1969Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) — Indian political party
- 1970Chicano Park — park in San Diego, California
- 1974Pan Am Flight 812 — aviation accident
- 1982
- 19921992 Guadalajara explosions — series of gas explosions
- 1993Murder of Stephen Lawrence — racially-motivated murder in London, UK
- 2004Ryongchon disaster — train wreck
- 2022self-immolation of Wynn Bruce — suicide in 2022
- 20252025 Pahalgam attack — Islamist terror attack in India
Births · 60
- 1451(Julian date)Isabella I of Castile — queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–1504)
- 1518(Julian date)Antoine of Navarre — French king consort (1518–1562)
- 1592Wilhelm Schickard — German astronomer, mathematician
- 1610Alexander VIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691
- 1658Giuseppe Torelli — Italian violist, violinist, teacher and composer (1658–1709)
- 1707Henry Fielding — English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)
- 1724Immanuel Kant — German philosopher (1724-1804)
- 1766Germaine de Staël — Genevan-French author (1766-1817)
- 1815Wilhelm Peters — German naturalist, zoologist and explorer (1815–1883)
- 1852William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg — Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1905 to 1912
- 1854Henri La Fontaine — Belgian lawyer, politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1854-1943)
- 1858Ethel Smyth — English composer and suffragette (1858–1944)
- 1868Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria — Austrian archduchess (1868-1924)
- 1870Vladimir Lenin — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
- 1872Princess Margaret of Prussia — German imperial princess, Prussian princess (1872–1954); youngest child of Frederick III, German Emperor, and Victoria, Princess Royal
- 1873Ellen Glasgow — Novelist, short story writer (1873–1945)
- 1876Robert Bárány — Austro-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate (1876–1936)
- 1884Otto Rank — Austrian psychoanalyst (1884–1939)
- 1887Harald Bohr — Danish mathematician and footballer (1887–1951)
- 1891Harold Jeffreys — British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)
- 1899Vladimir Nabokov — Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
- 1904
- 1906Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten — Swedish prince, heir apparent until his death (1906–1947); father of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- 1909Rita Levi-Montalcini — Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
- 1909Indro Montanelli — italian journalist, essayist and writer (1909-2001)
Deaths · 60
- 296(Julian date)Caius — pope of the Catholic Church from 283 to 296
- 536(Julian date)Agapetus I — 6th‑century Roman pope and canonized Catholic saint, considered a confessor of the faith
- 613Theodore of Sykeon — Byzantine saint
- 835(Julian date)Kūkai — Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
- 846Emperor Wuzong of Tang — emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- 1355(Julian date)Eleanor of Woodstock — English princess (1318-1355)
- 1616Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
- 1672Georg Stiernhielm — Swedish noble (1598-1672)
- 1699Hans Assmann von Abschatz — Silesian statesman and writer (1646-1699)
- 1758Antoine de Jussieu — French botanist (1686-1758)
- 1776Yeongjo of Joseon — 21st King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
- 1778James Hargreaves — English cotton weaver; inventor of the spinning jenny
- 1806Pierre-Charles Villeneuve — French naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars
- 1821Patriarch Grigorios V of Constantinople — Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1833Richard Trevithick — British inventor and mining engineer (1771-1833)
- 1842Henry Conwell — Irish-born American Catholic bishop
- 1850Friedrich Robert Faehlmann — Estonian writer (1798-1850)
- 1854Nicolás Bravo — President of Mexico (1786-1854)
- 1871Martín Carrera — President of Mexico (1806-1871)
- 1892Edouard Lalo — French composer
- 1908Henry Campbell-Bannerman — British Prime Minister from 1905 to 1908 (1836–1908)
- 1925André Caplet — French composer (1878–1925)
- 1929Henry Lerolle — French painter (1848-1929)
- 1930Jeppe Aakjær — Danish poet and novelist (1866–1930)
- 1933Henry Royce — English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
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