On this day: September 22

Events on September 22

• 1586 Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Zutphen.* 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established. Wikipedia
• 1711 The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina. Wikipedia
• 1726 Bach led the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig. Wikipedia
• 1726 Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig. Wikipedia
• 1761 George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Wikipedia
• 1823 Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried. Wikipedia
• 1869 Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner, was first performed in Munich. Wikipedia
• 1891 The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa. Wikipedia
• 1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015). Wikipedia
• 1914 First World War: The German submarine U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths. Wikipedia
• 1914 World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete in French Polynesia and sank a French gunboat. Wikipedia
• 1939 World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland. Wikipedia
• 1939 A joint military parade by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union took place in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their partition of Poland. Wikipedia
• 1941 The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed. Wikipedia
• 1948 Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League. Wikipedia
• 1953 The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles. Wikipedia
• 1957 In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. Wikipedia
• 1957 François Duvalier, nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life. Wikipedia
• 1960 The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation. Wikipedia
• 1975 Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon. Wikipedia
• 1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service. Wikipedia
• 1980 Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War. Wikipedia
• 1993 A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., deforming the tracks and causing the derailment of a passenger train eight minutes later, which killed 47 people and injured an additional 103. Wikipedia
• 2013 Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people. Wikipedia
• 2013 At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan. Wikipedia
• 2014 The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere. Wikipedia

Born on September 22

• 1480 Tenali Rama, poet in the court of Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire (died 1528) Wikipedia
• 1515 Anne of Cleves, Queen consort of England (died 1557) Wikipedia
• 1601 Anne of Austria, Queen and regent of France (died 1666) Wikipedia
• 1741 Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (died 1811) Wikipedia
• 1791 Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (died 1867) Wikipedia
• 1876 André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (died 1945) Wikipedia
• 1878 Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1967) Wikipedia
• 1882 Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, head of the German armed forces (OKW), and convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946) Wikipedia
• 1885 Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1951) Wikipedia
• 1895 Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (died 1967) Wikipedia
• 1901 Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (died 1932) Wikipedia
• 1901 Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997) Wikipedia
• 1918 Hans Scholl, German activist and co-founder of the anti-Nazi resistance group White Rose (died 1943) Wikipedia
• 1920 Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (died 1976) Wikipedia
• 1939 Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (died 2016) Wikipedia
• 1953 Ségolène Royal, French politician Wikipedia
• 1957 Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor Wikipedia
• 1958 Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer Wikipedia
• 1958 Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress Wikipedia
• 1959 Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate Wikipedia
• 1984 Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer Wikipedia
• 1987 Tom Felton, English actor Wikipedia

Died on September 22

• 189 He Jin, Chinese general and regent (born 135) Wikipedia
• 530 Pope Felix IV Wikipedia
• 904 Zhao Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (born 867) Wikipedia
• 1408 John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (born 1370) Wikipedia
• 1520 Selim I, Ottoman sultan (born 1465) Wikipedia
• 1539 Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (born 1469) Wikipedia
• 1692 Martha Corey, American woman accused of witchcraft (born 1620) Wikipedia
• 1774 Pope Clement XIV (born 1705) Wikipedia
• 1934 Cecil Chubb, English barrister and last private owner of Stonehenge (born 1876) Wikipedia
• 1956 Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877) Wikipedia
• 1989 Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888) Wikipedia
• 1999 George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (born 1927) Wikipedia
• 2007 ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, last Hand of the Cause of God in the Baháʼí Faith (born 1911) Wikipedia
• 2013 David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• American Business Women's Day (United States) Wikipedia
• Baltic Unity Day (Lithuania, Latvia) Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Digna and Emerita Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Emmeram of Regensburg Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Felix and Constantia Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Ignatius of Santhià (Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti) Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Laud of Coutances Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Paul Chong Hasang (one of The Korean Martyrs) Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope) Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Phocas, Bishop of Sinope Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Sadalberga Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Septimius of Iesi (this date since 1623) Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Theban Legion, including: Candidus Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Theban Legion, including: Maurice (Western Christianity) Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: Philander Chase (Episcopal Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast days: September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere: Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan) Wikipedia
• Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere: Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year) Wikipedia
• Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere: The first day of Miķeļi (Latvia) Wikipedia
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908. Wikipedia
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960. Wikipedia
• Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “September 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.