What happend on 22nd December

21.12
23.12
1885

Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

1864

Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman

1851

The first freight train is operated in Roorkee in India.

1849

The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is canceled at the last second.

1809

The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress.

1807

The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

1603

Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.