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The following events took place on October 22. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 60 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 4004 BC

  The world was created at approximately six o'clock in the evening, according to the Ussher chronology.
• 362

  The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
• 451

  The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
• 794

  Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
• 1383

  The 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
• 1575

  Foundation of Aguascalientes.
• 1633

  Battle of Liaoluo Bay: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
• 1707

  Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
• 1730

  Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
• 1746

  The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
• 1777

  American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
• 1784

  Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
• 1790

  Warriors of the Miami people under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
• 1797

  André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
• 1836

  Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
• 1844

  The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
• 1859

  Spain declares war on Morocco.
• 1866

  A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
• 1875

  First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
• 1877

  The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
• 1878

  The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
• 1879

  Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
• 1883

  The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust.
• 1884

  Greenwich, in London, England, is adopted as Universal Time meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
• 1895

  In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 m of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 m to the road below.
• 1907

  Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
• 1910

  Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
• 1923

  The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
• 1924

  Toastmasters International is founded.
• 1926

  J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death.

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