On this day: October 22

Events on October 22

• 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
• 1721 The Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War. 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
• 1724 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul) in Leipzig on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, based on the communion hymn of the same name. Wikipedia
• 1727 George II and Caroline of Ansbach were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey. Wikipedia
• 1746 The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter. Wikipedia
• 1777 American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank. Wikipedia
• 1797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, from 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above Paris. Wikipedia
• 1844 The Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day becomes known as the Great Disappointment. Wikipedia
• 1859 Spain declares war on Morocco. Wikipedia
• 1866 A plebiscite ratifies the annexation of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred three days before on October 19. Wikipedia
• 1879 Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb; the bulb lasted 131⁄2 hours before burning out. Wikipedia
• 1910 Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife. Wikipedia
• 1924 The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California. Wikipedia
• 1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer. Wikipedia
• 1943 World War II: In the second firestorm raid on Germany, the British Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless. 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 Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize. Wikipedia
• 1964 The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously. Wikipedia
• 1997 Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero Palo, in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland during his prison escape. Wikipedia
• 2012 Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping. Wikipedia
• 2013 The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013. Wikipedia
• 2014 In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings at Parliament Hill. Wikipedia
• 2019 Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored. Wikipedia

Born on October 22

• 1778 Javier de Burgos, Spanish jurist and politician (died 1848) Wikipedia
• 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
• 1898 Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet and philologist (died 1990) 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 1982 Richard Hugo, American poet of the Pacific Northwest (born 1923) 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
• 2010 Eio Sakata, Japanese Go player (born 1920) 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

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 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.