On this day: 22 September
Events, births and deaths on 22 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1932 · Births · Algirdas Brazauskas
- 1932 · Births · Ingemar Johansson
- 1918 · Births · Hans Scholl
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1072 · Deaths · Ouyang Xiu
- 1013 · Births · Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary
- 967 · Deaths · Wichmann the Younger
Events · 28
- 1236Battle of Saule — 1236 battle during Livonian Crusade
- 1499(Julian date)Treaty of Basel — armistice following the Battle of Dornach
- 1586Battle of Zutphen — 1586 European battle
- 1761Coronation of George III and Charlotte — 1761 event celebrating the accession of George III
- 1789Battle of Rymnik — battle in 1789, during the Russo-Turkish war
- 1862Emancipation Proclamation — executive order issued by president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 that freed southern slaves
- 1866Battle of Curupaity — 1866 battle of the Paraguayan War
- 1874Hong Kong Typhoon of 1874 — Pacific typhoon in 1874
- 1914Action of 22 September 1914 — 1914 naval battle between the British and German navies during World War I
- 1914Bombardment of Papeete — 1914 battle
- 1934Gresford disaster — coal mining disaster in 1934 where 266 men were killed
- 1939
- 1948Wing On Godown fire in 1948 — fire in Hong Kong in 1948
- 19571957 Haitian general election — Presidential election
- 1960Mali — country in West Africa
- 1979Vela incident — 1979 unidentified double flash of light
- 1980Iran–Iraq War — 1980-1988 war between Iran and Iraq
- 1988China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification — organization promoting unification between mainland China and Taiwan
- 1989International Paralympic Committee — Global governing body for the Paralympic Movement
- 19901990 Asian Games — 11th edition of the Asian Games
- 19931993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck — train wreck
- 1994
- 19951995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident — fatal United States Air Force plane crash in Anchorage, Alaska
- 1995
- 2003Dolphin — Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulation software
- 2006Lathen train collision — First fatal maglev train accident
- 2013Peshawar church bombing — Pakistani church bombing
- 2014Shōnen Jump+ — Japanese webcomic service
Births · 60
- 1593Matthäus Merian — Swiss-born engraver, publisher (1593 – 1650)
- 1601Anne of Austria — Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, lived (1601-1666)
- 1606Li Zicheng — Chinese rebel leader in the late Ming-early Qing period (1606–1645)
- 1694Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield — 18th-century British statesman and man of letters; (1694-1773)
- 1741Peter Simon Pallas — German zoologist and botanist (1741–1811)
- 1765Paolo Ruffini — Italian mathematician and physician (1765-1845)
- 1791Michael Faraday — British scientist (1791–1867)
- 1829Tự Đức — Vietnamese emperor (1829–1883)
- 1870Charlotte Cooper — English tennis player
- 1876André Tardieu — Prime Minister of France (1876–1945)
- 1878Shigeru Yoshida — Prime minister of Japan (1878–1967)
- 1880Christabel Pankhurst — suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editor (1880-1958)
- 1882Wilhelm Keitel — German field marshal (1882–1946)
- 1885Erich von Stroheim — Austrian actor and director (1885–1957)
- 1885Ben Chifley — Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (1945 to 1949)
- 1885Gunnar Asplund — Swedish architect (1885-1940)
- 1895Paul Muni — Austrian-born American stage and film actor (1895-1967)
- 1901Charles Brenton Huggins — American physiologist (1901-1997)
- 1901Nadezhda Alliluyeva — second wife of Joseph Stalin
- 1902John Houseman — Romanian-born British–American actor and film producer (1902–1988)
- 1906Ilse Koch — German war criminal, wife of camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch (1906–1967)
- 1907Maurice Blanchot — French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (1907–2003)
- 1912Martha Scott — American actress (1912–2003)
- 1918Hans Scholl — German pacifist, executed by Nazi Germany (1918–1943)
- 1918Henryk Szeryng — Polish-Mexican violinist (1918–1988)
Deaths · 60
- 189He Jin — Han dynasty regent and general (died 189)
- 530(Julian date)Felix IV — Pope and bishop of Rome from 526 to 530
- 904Emperor Zhaozong of Tang — final emperor of the Tang dynasty of China (r. 888-904)
- 1072Ouyang Xiu — Chinese poet, historian and statesman (1007–1072)
- 1158(Julian date)Otto of Freising — Austrian medieval chronicler (1112 ca. – 1158)
- 1345(Julian date)Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster — English noble
- 1399(Julian date)Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk — English peer (1366-1399)
- 1408(Julian date)John VII Palaiologos — Byzantine emperor
- 1457(Julian date)Peter II, Duke of Brittany — Duke of Brittany
- 1520(Julian date)Selim I — 9th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520
- 1531(Julian date)Louise of Savoy — Mother of King Francis I of France (1476-1531)
- 1539(Julian date)Guru Nanak — First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism
- 1554Francisco Vázquez de Coronado — Spanish explorer of the American southwest
- 1607Alessandro Allori — Italian painter (1535–1607)
- 1630Yuan Chonghuan — patriot and military commander of the Ming Dynasty (1584-1630)
- 1703Vincenzo Viviani — Italian scientist (1622-1703)
- 1774Clement XIV — pope of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774
- 1776Nathan Hale — soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
- 1777John Bartram — American botanist (1699-1777)
- 1788Toriyama Sekien — Japanese artist (1712–1788)
- 1848James Dunlop — Australian astronomer (1793–1848)
- 1862Frederick Townsend Ward — American general (1831–1862)
- 1872(Julian date)Vladimir Dal — Russian lexicographer (1801-1872)
- 1873Friedrich Frey-Herosé — member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1914Alain-Fournier — French writer
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