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October 22 in history

195 sourced entries recorded on October 22, from 232 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 362The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.source
  • 612Sak Kʼukʼ succeeds her father Ajen Yohl Mat, as queen of the Maya state of Palenque (modern Mexico).source
  • 906Abbasid commander Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire from Tarsus, joined by the governor Rustam ibn Baradu. He reaches the Halys River and takes 4,000–5,000 captives.source
  • 1303At the papal conclave in Rome to select a new Roman catholic Pontiff, Cardinal Nicolò Boccasini, Bishop of Ostia, is elected unanimously.source
  • 1309The trial of the Knights Templar arrested in England begins and will continue for the next five months, ending on March 18, 1310.source
  • 1335Ex-emperor Hanazono (95th emperor of japan) becomes a Zen priest.source
  • 1378Sir James Pickering is elected as Speaker of the English House of Commons.source
  • 1411The Duke of Burgundy and his troops capture Paris with the help of English mercenaries.source
  • 1420Ghiyāth al-dīn Naqqāsh, an envoy of the embassy sent by the Timurid ruler of Persia, Shah Rukh (r. 1404–1447), to the Ming dynasty of China during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424), records his sight and travel over a large floating pontoon bridge at Lanzhou (constructed in 1372) as he crosses the Yellow River on this day. He writes that it was: "...composed of twenty three boats, of great excellence and strength attached together by a long chain of iron as thick as a man's thigh, and this was moored on each side to an iron post as thick as a man's waist extending a distance of ten cubits on the land and planted firmly in the ground, the boats being fastened to this chain by means of big hooks. There were placed big wooden planks over the boats so firmly and evenly that all the animals were made to pass over it without difficulty."source
  • 1440Gilles de Rais confesses and is sentenced to death on a conviction of murdering at least 140 children. He is hanged on October 26 and his corpse is then burned at the stake.source
  • 1443Pedro de Portugal, Duke of Coimbra and regent for the 11-year old King Afonso V, grants letters patent to his younger brother Dom Henrique of Navegador ("Prince Henry the Navigator"), giving Henrique an exclusive monopoly over all navigation south of Cape Bojador, whether for the purpose of war or trade, as well as a commission on any African goods or slaves brought back to mainland Portugal.source
  • 1451Janos Hunyadi, Regent-Governor of the Kingdom of Hungary during the minority of the 11-year-old king, Ladislaus V, signs a peace treaty with the Holy Roman Emperor, Friedrich III.source
  • 1457After serving as the Doge of the Republic of Venice for 34 years, Francesco Foscari is forced to abdicate by the Council of Ten. Foscari dies 10 days later on November 1 at the age of 84.source
  • 1463Pope Pius II issues the papal bull Ezechielis prophetae, offering an indulgence to any Christians who take part in a crusade against the Ottoman Empire for at least six months or who donate funds to support it.source
  • 1475In retaliation for the resistance of the village of Les Clées against the Swiss invasion of Vaud, the army of Bern destroys the city and kills the members of the garrison at the Vaud Castle.source
  • 1494Ludovico Sforza becomes Duke of Milan upon the death of his nephew, the Duke Gian Galeazzo Sforza, and invites Charles VIII of France to invade Italy in support of his claim, beginning the First Italian War in the Italian Wars.source
  • 1494Ludovico Sforza becomes Duke of Milan, and invites Charles VIII of France to invade Italy in support of his claim, beginning the Italian War of 1494–98.source
  • 1500Nasir-ud-Din Shah overthrows the government of his father, Ghiyath Shah, ruler of the Malwa Sultanate (located in much of what is now the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh) for the last 31 years. Upon becoming the new Sultan, Nasir has his brother Ala-ud-Din executed, along with Ala-ud-din's children. Ghiyasuddin is poisoned the following February.source
  • 1522An EMS-X intensity earthquake kills more than 4,000 people on the Azores Islands as its strikes Vila Franca do Campo, the provincial capital, located on São Miguel Island.source
  • 1526James Hamilton of Finnart is appointed keeper of Linlithgow Palace.source
  • 1549Catherine of Habsburg, daughter of Ferdinand, Duke of Habsburg, marries Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. Francesco, only 16 years old, dies of pneumonia after only four months of marriage.source
  • 1552John Bale is nominated Bishop of Ossory.source
  • 1575The city of Villa de la Asunción (today Aguascalientes) is founded in New Spain, by permission from Philip II of Spain.source
  • 1589King James VI of Scotland sails to Norway to meet his bride, Anne of Denmark as part of a fleet of six Scottish Navy ships, and is accompanied by Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, the Lord Chancellor of Scotland.source
  • 1589James VI sails from Leith in the James Royal to meet Anne of Denmark in Norway.source
  • 1628Abaza Mehmed Pasha surrenders to Ottoman forces, ending the Abaza rebellion.source
  • 1633Battle of Liaoluo Bay: A large Ming dynasty fleet under Zheng Zhilong defeats a Dutch East India Company fleet at the island of Quemoy.source
  • 1644Newcastle upon Tyne captured by a Scottish army led by Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven.source
  • 1685Louis XIV of France issues the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal in his country, causing Huguenot refugees to flee to England and elsewhere; among them is the Toyé family, who establish the jewellery and clothing business which, as Toye, Kenning and Spencer, will still be operating in the hands of the original family in the 21st century.source
  • 1685Louis XIV issues the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal, thereby depriving Huguenots of civil rights. Their Temple de Charenton-le-Pont is immediately demolished.source
  • 1685Louis XIV of France issues the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal, thereby depriving Huguenots of civil rights. Their Temple de Charenton-le-Pont is immediately demolished and many flee to England, Prussia and elsewhere.source
  • 1686In the Great Turkish War, the Siege of Pécs ends when the Ottoman-held city, located across the Danube River from the recent liberated Buda, surrenders to Austrian troops of the Holy League, continuing the Austrian assumption of control of Hungary. Buda and Pest are later combined to form the Hungarian city (and now capital) of Budapest.source
  • 1707Scilly naval disaster: Four British Royal Navy ships run aground in the Isles of Scilly, because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and at least 1,450 sailors all drown.source
  • 1707Scilly naval disaster: Four Royal Navy ships, including HMS Association, run aground in the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation – Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and at least 1450 sailors are drowned.source
  • 1709The Treaty of Copenhagen renews the alliance between the Russian Empire and Denmark–Norway after it had been destroyed in 1700 with the Peace of Travendal. Denmark–Norway re-enters the Great Northern War as a result.source
  • 1721The Kelantan Sultanate is established at Kelantan Darul Naim (modern-day Kelantan Darul Naim, Malaysia).source
  • 1724J. 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.source
  • 1728October 20–23 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 (the largest in the Danish city's history) burns.source
  • 1738The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins near the Italian city of Resina on orders from King Charles III of Spain to his engineer, Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.source
  • 1740October 9–22 – Batavia Massacre: Troops of the Dutch East India Company massacre at least 10,000 Chinese Indonesians in Batavia.source
  • 1746The College of New Jersey is founded in Princetown, New Jersey. In 1896, it is renamed Princeton University.source
  • 1751William V, Prince of Orange, the three-year-old son of the late William IV, becomes the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. During his minority, his mother, Princess Anne, acts as regent until her death in 1759. Upon becoming of age in 1766, he will have a corrupt reign as the Republic's head of state until the office is abolished on February 23, 1785.source
  • 1761Relief Church founded as a liberal Presbyterian denomination at Colinsburgh by Thomas Gillespie, Thomas Boston and Thomas Colier.source
  • 1764Battle of Buxar: The British East India Company defeats the combined armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal, the Nawab of Awadh, and Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II.source
  • 1764deposed Nawab of Bengal Mir Qasim defeated at the Battle of Buxar by the British East India Company.source
  • 1784North Carolina rescinds its resolution ceding its western territory (Washington District, modern-day Tennessee) to the United States, after earlier giving Congress two years to accept the terms.source
  • 1794Fort Wayne founded in what is now the U.S. state of Indiana.source
  • 1797André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent, at Parc Monceau, Paris; he uses a silk parachute to descend approximately 3,000 ft from a hot air balloon.source
  • 1798October 21–22 – Revolt of Cairo: Napoleon Bonaparte suppresses a revolt in Cairo. French occupation survives but becomes more dependent on force and administration.source
  • 1798Capitulation of the French garrison at Hyderabad to East India Company troops under James Kirkpatrick, British Resident.source
  • 1823Simón Bolívar writes to Paraguayan dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia to release his friend the explorer Aimé Bonpland under threat of invasion. Rodríguez never responds to the letter.source
  • 1831John Jones of Ystrad and Robert Fulke Greville fight a duel at Tafarnspite.source
  • 1836Sam Houston is inaugurated as first elected President of the Republic of Texas.source
  • 1844This second date predicted by the Millerites for the Second Coming of Jesus (and said to be 6,000 years from creation, relating them to the 6 days of creation, using a day-for-a-year bible principle, with which they proved that the 1,000 years of rest in heaven with God would total to 7,000 years, indicating the completion of creation in the beginning, which make 7 days, but the 7th day is for rest, same as the 7,000th year is for rest in heaven), leads to the Great Disappointment. The Seventh-day Adventist Church believes this date to be the starting point of the Investigative judgment, just prior to the Second Coming of Jesus, as declared in the 26th of 28 fundamental doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists.source
  • 1844The Great Disappointment: Millerites (including future members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church) find that the Second Coming of Jesus does not occur as predicted by preacher William Miller.source
  • 1863The first tramway in Copenhagen begins operations. The Horse-drawn tram cars run along a single track between Sankt Annæ Plads and Frederiksberg Runddel.source
  • 1866The office of State President of the South African Republic is created by constitutional amendment approved at a session of the Volksraad.source
  • 1871Claus Winter Hjelm, judge (born 1797)source
  • 1873Bismarck negotiates the League of the Three Emperors, ensuring an alliance between Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire.source
  • 1877The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.source
  • 1877Blantyre mining disaster: Scotland's worst-ever mining accident kills over 200.source
  • 1877Blantyre mining disaster kills 207, Scotland's worst-ever mining accident.source
  • 1879Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests his first practical electric light bulb (it lasts 13 1/2 hours before burning out).source
  • 1881Tit-Bits weekly digest magazine founded by George Newnes.source
  • 1883The Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tram in Vienna (Austria) is the first electric tram powered by overhead wire.source
  • 1884The International Meridian Conference meeting in Washington, D.C., fixes the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian (voted on October 13).source
  • 1884The International Meridian Conference meeting in Washington, D.C., adopts the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian (voted on 13 October).source
  • 1884The "Nine Graces", nine women who are the first to be awarded degrees from the Royal University of Ireland, become the first women in the United Kingdom to be awarded degrees. They include Alice Oldham, Isabella Mulvany and Charlotte M. Taylor.source
  • 1885The Independent Liberal Party (Chile) is established.source
  • 1885The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council refuses to hear Riel's appealsource
  • 1894Martha Needle is hanged in Melbourne Gaol for the poisoning of her husband, and three children, in an attempt to obtain money from insurance policies.source
  • 1898Bjørn Skjærpe, gymnast and Olympic silver medallistsource
  • 1901The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Naples, presided by senator Giuseppe Saredo, that investigated corruption and bad governance in the city of Naples presents its report. The inquiry unearthed a serious situation of corruption, clientelism and general inefficiency and an extensive political patronage system, the so-called "administrative Camorra" or "high Camorra"; the corrupt class of Neapolitan executive in charge of city governments between the 1880s and 1890s. The commission was established in November 1900. The Saredo Commission's report discredited the Liberal politicians of Naples, who were voted from office in the local elections of November 1901.source
  • 1907Panic of 1907: A bank run forces New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations.source
  • 1918István Tisza dissolves the National Party of Worksource
  • 192104:30 - Telegraph notifies the Government about Charles IV's returnsource
  • 1925October 19–29 – Incident at Petrich: A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and is shot by border guards.source
  • 1928The Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.source
  • 1929October 18–24: battle at Zhengzhou, Henan between Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and National Revolutionary Armysource
  • 1929The government of Aristide Briand falls in France.source
  • 1931The failure of the Marmorosch Blank Bank, which followed the collapse of Banca Generala a Tarii Romanesti in June and Banca Bercovitz in July, triggers the peak of the Great Depression in Romania.source
  • 1932March on Rome's Decennial. The anniversary is celebrated with a Mussolini's oratory tour in the mayor Italian cities, an Exhibition of the Fascist revolution (opened the 27) and the opening of Via dell’Impero (28) and the Foro Mussolini (November 5).source
  • 1934October 20–November 3 – Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco, in the Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.source
  • 1935The Chinese Communist Party settles in Shaanxi after the Long March.source
  • 1936A magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes 103 km NNW of Siglufjörður, causing light to moderate shaking across the northern and western regions.source
  • 1941Takahito, Prince Mikasa (younger brother of Emperor Hirohito) marries Yuriko Takagi, henceforth Yuriko, Princess Mikasa.source
  • 1943The crew of German submarine U-537 sets up Weather Station Kurt near Martin Bay in Labrador.source
  • 1945Rómulo Betancourt is named provisional president of Venezuela.source
  • 1950Census (population 20,947,188)source
  • 1951The start of East Rift Valley earthquakes in eastern Taiwan.source
  • 1952October 21–22 – A typhoon hits southern Luzon, killing 443 (as of October 24). Albay was the worst-hit province with 118 deaths reported in Tabaco.source
  • 1956Israel, Britain and France secretly meet in Sèvres, France, and make plans to invade Egypt.source
  • 1956His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej enter monkhood for 15 days.source
  • 1956The last SovRom joint enterprises with the Soviet Union, Sovromcuarț and Sovrompetrol, are dissolved.source
  • 1962October 14–28 — The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.source
  • 1962John Vassall, a former clerical officer in British naval intelligence, is sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after admitting to passing secret material to the Soviet Union.source
  • 1963The establishment of National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine in Beitou District, Taipei.source
  • 1964Canada: A Federal Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects a design to become the new official Flag of Canada.source
  • 1964A 5.3 kiloton nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, 21 mi from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as part of the Vela Uniform program. This test is the Salmon phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Dribble.source
  • 1964October 10–24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.source
  • 19691969 Balkans Cup: Albania defeats Bulgaria 1-0 at Selman Stërmasi Stadium, Tiranasource
  • 1970Chilean army commander René Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.source
  • 1970Attack on the Commander in Chief of the Army, René Schneider. The general dies 3 days later in the Military Hospital.source
  • 1972The Luxembourg national football team beats Turkey 2–0 in Luxembourg City, recording Luxembourg's first victory in international football since 1969.source
  • 1972The Oakland Athletics defeat the Cincinnati Reds four games to three to capture Major League Baseball's World Series. It is the Athletics' first championship since 1930, when the franchise was in Philadelphia.source
  • 1981The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization faction led by Hareram Sharma and D. P. Singh begins.source
  • 1981November 13. General strike in Zielona Góra Voivodeship, sparked by a conflict at State Agricultural Farm in a village of Lubogóra, where chairman of local Solidarity had been fired.source
  • 1985Second leg of the 1985 Copa Libertadores finals.source
  • 19861986 Copa Libertadores finals: The first leg of the finals between Argentine club River Plate and Colombian club América de Cali is held at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium in Cali. América de Cali looses 1-2.source
  • 1986The Israeli Hadassah Medical Organization establishes a liaison office with the Israeli Civil Administration to improve healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territories. The same day, the Israeli government appoints Tahir Hijazi as Mayor of Anabta.source
  • 1986In New York City, WNBC Radio's traffic helicopter crashes into the Hudson River, killing traffic reporter Jane Dornacker. The last words heard on-the-air are Dornacker's screams of terror, "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!"source
  • 1987The pilot of a British Aerospace BAE Harrier GR5 registered ZD325 accidentally ejects from his aircraft. The jet continues to fly until it runs out of fuel and crashes into the Irish Sea.source
  • 19891989 De Meer nail bombssource
  • 1990Nizhny Novgorod restores its official name from Gorky, Volga Federal District, Russia.source
  • 1994The last National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) replacement exercise takes place in Choa Chu Kang Community Club, marking the end of a three-year replacement programme. For those who did not re-register yet, a grace period will be given until 1995. From 1 January 1996, the old laminated NRICs will be invalid.source
  • 1996A fire at La Planta prison in southwest Caracas, Venezuela, kills thirty prisoners.source
  • 1997Danish escaped criminal Steen Christensen robs the Hotel Palace in Helsinki, Finland, killing two police officers while evading capture.source
  • 2000Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong formally negotiate a Japan-Singapore Economic Agreement for a New Age Partnership (JSEPA).source
  • 2000The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper exposes Japanese archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.source
  • 2006Presidential elections were held in Bulgaria.source
  • 2006Fernando Alonso wins his second World Drivers Championship.source
  • 2007Montenegro adopts a new constitution, which among other things changes the country's official name from "Republic of Montenegro" to "Montenegro".source
  • 2008The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft on a lunar exploration mission.source
  • 2009Microsoft releases Windows 7 to all computers and laptops, including an edition for ATMs.source
  • 2010The 2010 Iraq War Documents leak occurs, being deemed the biggest US government leak in history. WikiLeaks being responsible for revealing 391832 documents concerning the 2003 Iraq War which revealed approximately 60% of the Iraqi deaths were civilian casualties, the Iraq War body count project showing the casualty percentage is closer to 80%.source
  • 2010The International Space Station surpasses the record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days).source
  • 2012Nguyễn Tấn Dũng admitted mistakes in economic management.source
  • 2012October 22 – November 2 – Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 900 miles (1,400 km)), wreaks havoc, resulting in 233 total deaths and $68.7 billion (2012 USD) damage.source
  • 2022October 16–October 23 – The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held. Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary by the Central Committee, beginning a third term as the paramount leader of China.source
  • 2023A fuel truck explosion in Tirmini killed six people and injured about 30. The explosion occurred after a fuel truck collided with another vehicle.source
  • 2025At least 40 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa die after a boat sinks off the coast near Mahdia.source

Births

  • 955Qian Weijun, king of Wuyue (Ten Kingdoms) (died 991)source
  • 1071William IX ("the Troubador"), duke of Aquitaine (died 1127)source
  • 1197Juntoku, emperor of Japan (died 1242)source
  • 1200Louis IV (the Saint), landgrave of Thuringia (died 1227)source
  • 1511Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1553)source
  • 1637Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford (died 1685)source
  • 1659Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist (died 1734)source
  • 1688Nader Shah of Persia (died 1747)source
  • 1689King John V of Portugal, Portuguese king (died 1750)source
  • 1693Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, American planter (died 1781)source
  • 1701Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress (died 1756)source
  • 1736John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (died 1769)source
  • 175822 October in Hanover – Friedrich Rehberg, German portrait and historical painter (died 1835)source
  • 1811Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, pianist (died 1886)source
  • 1832Robert Eitner, German musicologist, researcher and bibliographer (died 1905)source
  • 1844Louis Riel, Canadian-American leader (died 1885)source
  • 1891Dumitru S. Panaitescu, literary historian and critic, poet, essayist and fiction writer known as Perpessicius (died 1971).source
  • 1908José Escobar Saliente, comic book writer and artist (died 1994)source
  • 1915Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician (died 2012)source
  • 1920Timothy Leary, American psychologist, author and proponent of LSD (died 1996)source
  • 1949Arsène Wenger, French football (soccer) managersource
  • 1951William David Sanders, American victim of the Columbine High School massacre (died 1999)source

Deaths

  • 232Demetrius I, patriarch of Alexandria (born 127)source
  • 578Tzi-B'alam, who had been the ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras, dies after a 25-year reign that began in May 553.source
  • 726Itzamnaaj K'awiil, a Maya ruler of Dos Pilassource
  • 726Itzamnaaj K'awiil, the ruler of the Mayan city state at Dos Pilas in Guatemala since 698, dies after a 28-year reign.source
  • 741Charles Martel, Merovingian mayor of the palace, dies in his palace at Quirzy-sur-Oise (modern-day Picardy). His territories are divided between his adult sons Carloman and Pepin the Short, although the Frankish Kingdom has had no true king since the death of Theuderic IV (see 737). Lands to the east, including Austrasia and Alemannia (with Bavaria as a vassal) go to Carloman, while Pepin receives Neustria and Burgundy (with Aquitaine as a vassal). Grifo, youngest son of Charles, succeeds him as mayor of the palace, and probably receives a strip of land between Neustria and Austrasia.source
  • 741Charles Martel, Frankish statesman and founder of the Carolingian dynastysource
  • 842Abo, Japanese prince (born 792)source
  • 1062Fujiwara no Tsunekiyo, Japanese noblemansource
  • 1229Gerard III, Dutch nobleman and knightsource
  • 1246Mieszko II (the Fat), duke of Kalisz-Wieluńsource
  • 1383King Fernando I of Portugal dies, and is succeeded by his 10-year-old daughter, Beatriz. Her mother, Fernando's widow Leonor Teles, proclaims herself the regent A period of civil war and anarchy, known as the 1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum, begins in Portugal, due to Beatriz being married to Juan King of Leon and Castile.source
  • 1383King Fernando I of Portugal (born 1345)source
  • 1440Gilles de Rais is executed in Nantessource
  • 1455Johannes Brassart, Flemish composersource
  • 1481Michael, Bishop of Glendaloughsource
  • 1487Antonio Bettini, Italian religious writer (born 1396)source
  • 1493James Douglas, 1st Earl of Mortonsource
  • 1521Edward Poynings, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (born 1459)source
  • 1604Domingo Báñez, Spanish theologian (born 1528)source
  • 1630Jerónima de la Asunción, Spanish founder of the Monastery of Santa Clara (born 1555)source
  • 1702Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges, French noble and soldier (born 1630)source
  • 1707Sir Cloudesley Shovell, British admiral, drowned (born 1650)source
  • 1707Sir Cloudesley Shovell, admiral, drowned (born 1650)source
  • 1736George Clarke, English politician, architect (born 1661)source
  • 1745Isaac Greenwood, American mathematician (born 1702)source
  • 1745William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis, 80source
  • 1764Jean-Marie Leclair, French composer and violinist (murdered) (born 1697)source
  • 1775Peyton Randolph, planter and public official from the Colony of Virginia (born 1721)source
  • 1815Claude Lecourbe, French general (born 1759)source
  • 1847Negus Sahle Selassie of Shewa (born c. 1795)source
  • 1854Jeremias Gotthelf, novelist (born 1797)source
  • 1859Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer (born 1784)source
  • 1882Ion Andreescu, painter (born 1850).source
  • 1900John Sherman, American politician (b.1823)source
  • 1902Walter Hauser, politician (born 1837)source
  • 1906Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839)source
  • 1917Bob Fitzsimmons, British boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (born 1863)source
  • 1935Edward Carson, Irish Unionist leader, barrister and judge (born 1854).source
  • 1943WWII: Bombing of Kassel in World War II: The British Royal Air Force delivers a highly destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of Kassel; at least 10,000 are killed and 150,000 are made homeless.source
  • 1964Khawaja Nazimuddin, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1894)source
  • 1990Louis Althusser, 72, French philosopher, heart attack.source
  • 2014October 18 - 22 people are killed in heavy rainfall, with 9 killed in the capital of Managua by a wall collapse.source