December 22 in History

Marries Matilda, only daughter & heiress of Eustace III & Mary of Scotland

Supported by the Barons who are opposed to a woman taking the throne

Pardons the Earl of Lancaster the leader of the Barons revolt

Pardons the Earl of Lancaster the leader of the Barons revolt

Deposed and tried for crimes

Promises to hand-over Maine to France in a personal letter to Charles VII

Henry VIIIs 3rd Parliament closes

Resigns as Lord Chancellor. Did not approve of the marriage between Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon

Is chosen Governor of Scotland during the minority of Mary Queen of Scots and takes responsibility for royal government.

Elizabeth appoints Nicholas Bacon as Lord Keeper

Bacon serves as Lord Keeper during the first year of Elizabeth's reign

Captures Mainz & spends the winter there

Finch flees abroad to avoid parliamentary prosecution for conduct during Personal Rule.

Lunsford's appointment alarms Londoners who distrust his royalist reputation.

Charles appoints Thomas Lunsford as Lieutenant of the Tower, provoking public opposition.

Charles appoints Thomas Lunsford as Lieutenant of the Tower, provoking public opposition.

First day of the interregnum

William III of Orange gives royal assent to the Triennial Act, requiring frequent Parliaments and regular general elections.

Lands near Peterhead to rally Jacobite support after defeat at Sheriffmuir

Captures the Turkish fortess of Ismail at the mouth of the Danube

Appointed Brigadier, age 24

Napoleon I was appointed brigadier general at age 24.

Appointed Brigadier

Captures Toulon & is made a Brigadier

Appointed General de Brigade

Napoleon I was appointed general de brigade.

Appointed General of the Brigade, provisional

Napoleon I received a provisional appointment as general of brigade.

Appointed General de Brigade

Appointed General of the Brigade, provisional

The Embargo Act halts most foreign trade in an unsuccessful effort to protect neutral rights.

Marches the Unionists through Georgia & takes Atlanta 1 Sept & Savannah 22 Dec

Kagoshima is bombarded by the British Royal Navy to punish the Satsuma daimyo for the murder of Charles Lennox Richardson on the Tokaido highway

Marches the Unionists through Georgia & takes Atlanta 1 Sept & Savannah 22 Dec

Writes on relations between the International and the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy.

Sudden resignation after the Cabinet will not support his proposed defense cuts

Sudden resignation after the Cabinet will not support his proposed defense cuts

Sentenced to transportation for life & expulsion from the army & loss of rank. Found guilty of passing papers to a foreign power

Launches Vperyod as a Bolshevik rival to Menshevik-controlled Iskra.

Begins a Bolshevik newspaper after losing control of Iskra.

Appointed acting President of Ecuador after the death of Emilio Estrada

Talks resume at Brest Litovsk

Heads the Russian peace negotiations which begins after the agreement of an armistice

Peace negotiations commence with the Central Powers

Heads the Russian peace negotiations which begins after the agreement of an armistice

His government ends in Helsinki, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Finland.

Takes office as Prime Minister of Finland and forms a government in Helsinki.

Inskips report on arms expenditure is reviewed by the Cabinet, emphasises diplomacy

Inskips report on arms expenditure is reviewed by the Cabinet, emphasises diplomacy

Inskips report on arms expenditure is reviewed by the Cabinet, emphasises diplomacy

Inskips report on arms expenditure is reviewed by the Cabinet, emphasises diplomacy

Returns to the Foreign Office as Churchill's Foreign Secretary

Responds to the bombing of Manchester during the winter Blitz.

Churchill travels to the US to discuss Anglo-American strategy and priorities with Roosevelt, the Arcadia conference formally endorses the Allies Germany First policy

Churchill travels to the US to discuss Anglo-American strategy and priorities with Roosevelt, the Arcadia conference formally endorses the Allies Germany First policy

Churchill travels to the US to discuss Anglo-American strategy and priorities with Roosevelt, the Arcadia conference formally endorses the Allies Germany First policy

Churchill travels to the US to discuss Anglo-American strategy and priorities with Roosevelt, the Arcadia conference formally endorses the Allies Germany First policy

Homma's Fourteenth Army lands its main force at Lingayen Gulf during the invasion of Luzon.

The first full Fat Man bomb assembly is completed for handling and airdrop practice, before nuclear material and final explosive lenses are available.

Forms a Provisional Government based at Debrecen

Appointed Prime Minister of Hungary

Forms a Provisional Government based at Debrecen

Creates the armed nucleus that becomes the Vietnam People's Army

Forms the Vietnam Propaganda Unit of Liberation Army

Hammarskjold oversees the transition as Anglo-French forces leave and UNEF assumes temporary control.

Completes withdrawal of British and French forces from Port Said

The last Anglo-French forces leave Port Said

The last Anglo-French forces leave Port Said after international pressure forces withdrawal

Oswald was assigned to Marine Air Control Squadron 9 at El Toro on December 22, 1958, and worked with a radar crew.

Announces a 36 hr cease-fire commencing Christmas eve to negotiate with North Vietnam

Mao calls for educated youth to learn from workers, peasants and soldiers

"Christmas On Earth Revisited" is staged at Olympia, Syd seems incapable of playing, standing staring at the audience

Uses Apollo navigation procedures during the translunar coast to refine the spacecraft trajectory.

Mao orders educated youth to go to the countryside and be re-educated by poor and lower-middle peasants

RAF members Klaus Janschke, Ingeborg Barz, Wolfgang Grundmann raid a branch of the Bavarian Mortgage and Exchange Bank, a police officer, Herbert Schoner, walks in on the raid and is shot dead

RAF members Klaus Janschke, Ingeborg Barz, Wolfgang Grundmann raid a branch of the Bavarian Mortgage and Exchange Bank, a police officer, Herbert Schoner, walks in on the raid and is shot dead

RAF members Klaus Janschke, Ingeborg Barz, Wolfgang Grundmann raid a branch of the Bavarian Mortgage and Exchange Bank, a police officer, Herbert Schoner, walks in on the raid and is shot dead

Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 2nd term

Desai tells Parliament that his government does not intend to manufacture nuclear weapons or conduct further nuclear explosions.

London Calling enters the UK albums chart, reaching the Top Ten and expanding the Clash's sound beyond early punk.

Duarte becomes head of the Revolutionary Government Junta

Appointed President of Argentina

Appointed President of Argentina

Appointed de facto President of Argentina after Roberto Eduardo Viola

Reports on protection of Palestinian civilians after the Council condemns Israeli practices in occupied territories.

Mugabe concludes the Unity Accord with Nkomo to end the ZANU-ZAPU conflict.

Mugabe begins implementing the political settlement agreed with Nkomo.

Mugabe signs the Unity Accord with Joshua Nkomo.

Nkomo signs the Unity Accord merging ZAPU into ZANU-PF.

The Unity Accord provides for ZAPU's incorporation into ZANU-PF.

ZAPU merges into the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)

The Romanian Government is overthrown

Flees Bucharest by helicopter as the regime collapses.

The Government announces it will grant UK citizenship to 225,000 from Hong Kong

Emerges as leader of the National Salvation Front.

Iliescu emerges as leader of the National Salvation Front.

Ceausescu flees the Central Committee building as communist rule collapses.

The Romanian Government is overthrown

Addresses the country after Ceausescu's fall.

Winner of the 2nd round of the Presidential elections on Khakasiya with 71.0%

Movement effectively ceases to exist after remaining leaders surrender

Grunsfeld helps restore Hubble's pointing system by replacing failed gyroscope assemblies during the first Servicing Mission 3A spacewalk.

Smith helps replace all three Hubble Rate Sensor Units, restoring six gyroscopes used for accurate telescope pointing.

Isarescu leaves the central bank temporarily to lead the government.

Madonna marries Guy Ritchie near Dornoch in Sutherland

Madonna marries Guy Ritchie near Dornoch in Sutherland

Karzai is sworn in as chairman of Afghanistan's thirty-member Interim Administration.

Abdullah Abdullah joins the Interim Administration as foreign minister and remains in the Transitional Administration.

Wins the Colorado Party nomination for the presidency.

Showalter leads Hubble observations revealing two previously unknown dusty rings around Uranus and the moons Mab and Cupid.

The Act reduces the corporate tax rate and changes individual and business taxation.

Triggers a partial government shutdown over border wall funding.

Scores his 644th Barcelona goal to surpass Pele's recognised goals total for a single club.

Birth of Heihachiro Togo

Death of Henry I, rides to Winchester to take control of the Treasury

Death of Arthur Eddington

Death of Howard Leslie Brennan

Dies in Crawford, Colorado, aged seventy.

Northampton's Royalist force is attacked at Banbury and relieved the following day.

Defeats the Prussians

Togo is assigned to Kasuga in the Naval Battle of Awa, near Osaka, against the navy of the Bakufu

Togo participated as a third-class officer aboard the Kasuga in the last battles against the remnants of the Bakufu forces, the naval Battle of Miyako

Launches an attack on Bastogne