Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 22
This is a list of selected March 22 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1622 – The Powhatan Confederacy under Chief Opchanacanough killed almost 350 English settlers around Jamestown, a third of the Colony of Virginia's population. | unreferenced section |
| 1849 – First Italian War of Independence: After capturing the fortress town of Mortara, forces led by Austrian General Joseph Radetzky von Radetz routed Sardinian troops at the Battle of Novara. | multiple issues |
| 1920 – A pogrom in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azeris destroyed the Armenian-populated portions of the town. | quote farm |
| 1933 – The Holocaust: Construction of the first Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was completed. | refimprove section |
| 1945 – Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan, and Yemen founded the Arab League, a regional organization that facilitates political, economic, cultural, scientific and social programs designed to promote the interests of the Arab world. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – Please Please Me, the first album recorded by the Beatles, was released. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon appointed Amerigo Vespucci to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain.
- 1638 – Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her participation in the Antinomian Controversy.
- 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp.
- 1913 – Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
- 1943 – World War II: Almost the entire population of the village of Khatyn in Belarus was massacred by Nazi forces, with participation from their Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators.
- 1984 – In the longest and costliest criminal trial in United States history, teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were falsely charged with satanic ritual abuse of schoolchildren.
- 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashed shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 27 people and leading to studies of the effects of ice on aircraft.
- 2004 – Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian imam who was a founder and the spiritual leader of Hamas, was killed by a missile from an Israeli helicopter gunship as he left early morning prayers.
- 2014 – A massive landslide in Oso, Washington, killed 43 people after engulfing a rural neighborhood, the largest death toll for a standalone landslide in U.S. history.
Born/died: Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (b. 1615) · Caroline Norton (b. 1808) · Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (b. 1822) · Reese Witherspoon (b. 1976) · Juan Uribe (b. 1979) · Kenzō Tange (d. 2005) · Bebo Valdés (d. 2013)
Notes
- Erawan Shrine (1784) appears on March 21, so Emerald Buddha should not appear in the same year
March 22: World Water Day; Mothering Sunday (Western Christianity, 2020)
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- 238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II were jointly proclaimed Roman emperor, the latter because of his father's advanced age.
- 1784 – The Emerald Buddha (pictured), considered the sacred palladium of Thailand, was installed in its current location at Wat Phra Kaew on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
- 1871 – Governor of North Carolina William Woods Holden became the first U.S. state governor to be removed from office through impeachment.
- 1942 – Second World War: British and Italian naval forces fought the Second Battle of Sirte in the Gulf of Sidra north of Libya.
- 1995 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.
Anton Raphael Mengs (b. 1728) · Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (b. 1822) · James Black (d. 2010)