On this day in history: 22nd November: 498 - St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II 845 - 845 : the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. 1220 - Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III 1346 - Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements 1492 - Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Columbuss fleet 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India 1542 - Spain delegates New Laws against slavery in America 1573 - The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded. 1574 - Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. 1675 - English king Charles II adjourns parliament 1699 - Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden 1707 - Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland 1714 - King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden 1794 - Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards 1830 - Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1899 - -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) 1900 - Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France 1905 - British, Italian, Russian, French & Austro-Hungarian fleet attacks Lesbos 1906 - International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts SOS as new call for help 1906 - Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership 1914 - Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing 1914 - Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia 1918 - Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns 1918 - King Albert Is triumphant procession through Brussels 1918 - Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland 1918 - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) 1919 - 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam 1922 - British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader 1922 - Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government 1923 - Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death 1924 - Britain orders Egyptians out of Sudan 1926 - Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth 1940 - 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis 1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis 1941 - NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya 1942 - Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov 1942 - Hitler orders Rommels Africa Korps to fight to last man 1943 - FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan 1943 - France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprison Lebanese government 1943 - RAF begins air bombing of Berlin 1944 - Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:00:00 +0000