May 22 Historical Events

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

Found 71 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 334 BC
  The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
• 853
  A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
• 1176
  The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
• 1200
  King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
• 1246
  Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV.
• 1254
  Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
• 1377
  Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
• 1455
  Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
• 1629
  Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck to end the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years’ War.
• 1762
  Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
• 1762
  Trevi Fountain in Rome is officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clemens XIII.
• 1807
  A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
• 1807
  Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire.
• 1809
  On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
• 1812
  Action of 22 May 1812: A small French two-frigate squadron comprising Ariane and Andromaque, returning from a commerce raiding campaign in the Atlantic, meets the 74-gun HMS Northumberland while trying the slip to Lorient through the British blockade.

• 1816
  A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
• 1819
  The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England, on June 20.
• 1826
  HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
• 1840
  The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
• 1848
  Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
• 1849
  Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
• 1856
  Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
• 1863
  American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson: Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
• 1864
  American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army’s Red River Campaign ends with the Union unable to achieve any of its objectives.
• 1871
  The U.S. Army issues an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
• 1872
  Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• 1885
  Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was exposed under the Arc de Triomphe during the night.
• 1897
  The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
• 1903
  Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
• 1906
  The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.