On this day: 22 December
Events, births and deaths on 22 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Chris Rea
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Alcides Ghiggia
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1095 · Births · Roger II of Sicily
- 1115 · Deaths · Olav Magnusson of Norway
- 1100 · Deaths · Bretislaus II
Events · 24
- 856(Julian date)856 Damghan earthquake — earthquake in Damghan County, Iran
- 1135(Julian date)The Anarchy — civil war in England and Normandy between 1135 and 1153
- 1216(Julian date)Dominican Order — Roman Catholic religious order
- 1622Bucaramanga — city in Andean Region and Capital of the department of Santander, Colombia
- 1790Siege of Izmail — 1790 battle in the Russo–Turkish War
- 1808Beethoven concert of 22 December 1808 — benefit concert held for Ludwig van Beethoven at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna
- 1885Prime Minister of Japan — head of government of Japan
- 1885Cabinet of Japan — executive branch of the government of Japan
- 1885First Itō Cabinet — Cabinet of Japan (1885–1888)
- 1914Battle of Sarikamish — 1914 battle between the Russian and Ottoman empires during World War I
- 1937Lincoln Tunnel — tunnel from New York City to Weehawken, New Jersey
- 1944People's Army of Vietnam — combined military forces of Vietnam
- 1948Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia — government-in-exile (1948-49) during the Indonesian National Revolution
- 1973Accidente de un Sud Aviation Caravelle de Royal Air Maroc en 1973 — Royal Air Maroc 1973 Sud Aviation Caravelle
- 1974Comorian independence referendum, 1974 — 1974 vote in Comoros on independence from France; passed
- 1987Gukurahundi — civil conflict in Zimbabwe (1982–87)
- 1992Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 — 1992 mid-air collision
- 1996Airborne Express Flight 827 — aviation accident
- 1997Acteal massacre — massacre of 45 Roman Catholic indigenous people attending a prayer meeting, carried out on December 22, 1997, by the paramilitary group Mascaras Rojas (Red Masks)
- 1999Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 — aviation accident
- 20012001 failed shoe bomb attempt — failed bombing attempt that occurred on December 22, 2001
- 2010Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 — 2011 US federal law allowing LGBT people to openly serve in the military
- 20182018 Sunda Strait tsunami — tsunami in coastal regions of Banten and Lampung, Indonesia
- 20182018–2019 United States federal government shutdown — government shutdown from December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019
Births · 60
- 244Diocletian — Augustus of the Eastern Roman Empire (244-311)
- 1095(Julian date)Roger II of Sicily — King of Sicily from 1130 to 1154
- 1178(Julian date)Antoku — Emperor of Japan
- 1183Chagatai Khan — second son of Genghis Khan and Börte (1183–1242)
- 1459(Julian date)Cem Sultan — Ottoman prince and pretender at the throne
- 1639Jean Racine — French dramatist (1639-1699)
- 1666Guru Gobind Singh — tenth Sikh guru (1661–1708)
- 1723Carl Friedrich Abel — German composer
- 1850Victoriano Huerta — Mexican military officer and 35th President of Mexico (1850-1916)
- 1853Sarada Devi — spiritual consort of Ramakrishna (1853–1920)
- 1856Frank B. Kellogg — American politician (1856-1937)
- 1858Giacomo Puccini — Italian opera composer (1858–1924)
- 1868Jaan Tõnisson — Estonian politician and lawyer (1868–1941)
- 1869Edwin Arlington Robinson — American poet (1869–1935)
- 1876Filippo Tommaso Marinetti — Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement (1876-1944)
- 1883Edgard Varèse — French composer (1883-1965)
- 1887Srinivasa Ramanujan — Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
- 1898Vladimir Fock — Russian physicist (1898-1974)
- 1899Gustaf Gründgens — German actor, director, intendant (1899-1963)
- 1900Marc Allégret — French screenwriter and film director (1900-1973)
- 1903Haldan Keffer Hartline — American neuroscientist
- 1907Peggy Ashcroft — British actress (1907-1991)
- 1912Lady Bird Johnson — First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969
- 1926Alcides Ghiggia — Uruguayan footballer (1926-2015)
- 1936Héctor Elizondo — American actor
Deaths · 60
- 69(Julian date)Vitellius — eighth Roman Emperor (69)
- 1012Baha' al-Dawla — Amir of Iraq from 988 to 1012
- 1100Bretislaus II — Duke of Bohemia from 1092 to 1100
- 1115(Julian date)Olav Magnusson of Norway — king of Norway in 1103–1115
- 1419(Julian date)John XXIII — Italian bishop; Pisan antipope (1410–1415)
- 1603Mehmed III — 13th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595–1603)
- 1641Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully — French duke (1560-1641)
- 1646(Julian date)Peter Mogila — Metroploitan of Kyiv, Halych and All-Rus
- 1660André Tacquet — mathematician, priest
- 1666Guercino — painter of the Italian 17th century (1591–1666)
- 1767John Newbery — English publisher and bookseller (1713-1767)
- 1788Percivall Pott — British surgeon (1714-1788)
- 1828William Hyde Wollaston — English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)
- 1853Manuel María Lombardini — President of Mexico (1853)
- 1867Jean-Victor Poncelet — French engineer and mathematician (1788-1867)
- 1867Théodore Rousseau — French painter (1812–1867)
- 1870Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer — Spanish poet
- 1880George Eliot — English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
- 1891Paul de Lagarde — German polymath, biblical scholar and orientalist (1827-1891)
- 1899Dwight Lyman Moody — American evangelist (1837–1899)
- 1899Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster — English landowner, politician, and racehorse owner (1825-1899)
- 1901Tamerlan Thorell — Swedish arachnologist (1830-1901)
- 1902Richard von Krafft-Ebing — Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and nobleman (1840–1902)
- 1917Frances Xavier Cabrini — Italian-American Catholic nun, misionary and saint (1850-1917)
- 1919Hermann Weingärtner — German gymnast (1864–1919)
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