On this day: October 22

Events on October 22

• 2137 BC A solar eclipse occurred over China, one of the earliest recorded eclipses in history. Wikipedia
• 451 The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted by the Council of Chalcedon, an ecumenical council. Wikipedia
• 906 Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, an Abbasid military officer of Turkic origin, led a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking at least 4,000 captives. Wikipedia
• 1633 At the Battle of Liaoluo Bay Ming Chinese naval forces defeated a Dutch East India Company fleet in the Taiwan Strait, the largest naval encounter between Chinese and European forces before the First Opium War more than two hundred years later. Wikipedia
• 1707 In one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, at least 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather off the Isles of Scilly. Wikipedia
• 1724 J. S. Bach led the first performance of the chorale cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul), based on the communion hymn of the same name, in Leipzig. Wikipedia
• 1727 George II and Caroline of Ansbach were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey. Wikipedia
• 1740 A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed. Wikipedia
• 1877 Scotland's worst mining accident occurred when an explosion at a colliery in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, killed 207 miners. Wikipedia
• 1895 At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall, with the locomotive landing on the street below. Wikipedia
• 1907 A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, triggering the Panic of 1907. Wikipedia
• 1924 The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California. Wikipedia
• 1936 The Royal Navy cutlass was withdrawn from combat service. Wikipedia
• 1936 Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat, was convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing. Wikipedia
• 1940 After evading Vichy French and Francoist Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile. Wikipedia
• 1945 Workers at the Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina, began a labor strike against the American Tobacco Company that lasted more than five months. Wikipedia
• 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation. Wikipedia
• 1964 The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously. Wikipedia
• 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize. Wikipedia
• 1966 With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Wikipedia
• 1987 John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered. Wikipedia
• 1989 TAN-SAHSA Flight 414 crashed in approach to Toncontín International Airport, killing 131 out of 146 people onboard. Wikipedia
• 2005 Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashed in Ogun State, Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board. Wikipedia
• 2008 India launches its first uncrewed lunar probe mission Chandrayaan-1. Wikipedia
• 2014 In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings at Parliament Hill. Wikipedia
• 2015 A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack. Wikipedia

Born on October 22

• 1811 Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1886) Wikipedia
• 1818 Leconte de Lisle, French poet and author (died 1894) Wikipedia
• 1844 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager (died 1923) Wikipedia
• 1870 Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953) Wikipedia
• 1881 Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958) Wikipedia
• 1903 George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989) Wikipedia
• 1913 Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist (died 1954) Wikipedia
• 1913 Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (died 1997) Wikipedia
• 1915 Yitzhak Shamir, Belarusian-Israeli civil servant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (died 2012) Wikipedia
• 1917 Joan Fontaine, English-American actress (died 2013) Wikipedia
• 1919 Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) Wikipedia
• 1920 Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (died 1996) Wikipedia
• 1929 Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (died 1990) Wikipedia
• 1938 Christopher Lloyd, American actor, comedian and producer Wikipedia
• 1939 Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician, 2nd President of Mozambique Wikipedia
• 1943 Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer Wikipedia
• 1949 Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager Wikipedia
• 1952 Jeff Goldblum, American actor and producer Wikipedia
• 1964 Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (died 1993) Wikipedia
• 1967 Carlos Mencia, Honduran-American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter Wikipedia
• 1970 Javier Milei, Argentine politician and economist, President of Argentina Wikipedia
• 1973 Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player Wikipedia

Died on October 22

• 741 Charles Martel, Frankish political and military leader (born 688) Wikipedia
• 1383 Ferdinand I of Portugal, Portuguese king (born 1345) Wikipedia
• 1859 Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (born 1784) Wikipedia
• 1883 Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish British novelist and soldier (born 1818) Wikipedia
• 1906 Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839) Wikipedia
• 1928 Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1862) Wikipedia
• 1973 Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (born 1876) Wikipedia
• 1979 Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (born 1887) Wikipedia
• 1986 Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893) Wikipedia
• 1987 Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (born 1919) Wikipedia
• 1990 Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1918) Wikipedia
• 1995 Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, critic (born 1922) Wikipedia
• 2007 Ève Curie, French pianist and journalist (born 1904) Wikipedia
• 2024 Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian philosopher, theologian and priest (born 1928) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Abercius of Hieropolis Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Cordula of Cologne Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Donatus of Fiesole Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Mellonius Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Nunilo and Alodia Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Pope John Paul II Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• International Stuttering Awareness Day Wikipedia
• Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan) Wikipedia

Sources

• Wikipedia — “October 22” — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/October 22” — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikidata — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “October 22” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for October 22 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.