The April 22nd is the 112e Jour of the Année (113e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Sign of the zodiac: 1st day of the Bull

Events

1 to 1900

  • 1097 : Raymond of Saint-Gilles, count de Toulouse, meets, as of the shortly after its arrival with Constantinople, the Byzantine Empereur Alexis Ier Comnène and refuses to lend the oath of allegiance that this one claims crusaders.

  • 1370 : Pose first stone of the fortress of the Bastille.
  • 1500 : Official discovery of the Brazil by Pedro Alvares Cabral.
  • 1826 : Dumont d' Urville installs Toulon as commander of “ the Astrolabe ” (old “the the Shell ”, renamed) for the second circumnavigation, with inter alia missions, the search for Perugia. He will discover the islands Fiji, will chart the islands Loyauté, will take a reading of the coasts of the New Zealand, will undertake an exploration of the islands Tonga and Moluques. Its reports/ratios allowed the classification of the islands in Mélanésie, Polynésie and Micronesia.

20th century

  • 1915 : German offensive with Ypres with use for the first chlorinated gas time.

  • 1923 : With Carthagène (Spain, province of Murcie), alternate of Enrique Cano Iriborne known as “Cavira”, Spanish Matador.
  • 1969: Robin Knox-Johnston finishes the first round the world tour in solo without stopover on water. On a sailing ship of 9 meters, he traversed 95.000 kilometers in 312 days.
  • 1970 : The first Day of the Earth, with the the United States, mobilizes 20 million people.
  • 1990 : In France, faithful finds a plastic bag containing 435.000 francs French (approximately 72.500 euros) in a church Niçoise.
  • 1992 :
    • a series of explosions due to the gas hexane makes jump the sewerage system of a vast district of Guadalajara, second city of the Mexico, making 230 died and more than 1400 wounded.
    • Brought into service of Bi-Bop in Paris. Bi-Bop is a telephone of pocket.
  • 1995 : First turn of the presidential election in France. Lionel Jospin (23,8%) and Jacques Chirac (20,3%) reaches to the second turn.
  • 1998 : Opening of the park Disney' S Animal Kingdom, 4th park with topics of Walt Disney World Arises.
  • 2000 : FC Gueugnon gains the Cut of the Football league by beating the Paris SG 2 to 0.

21e century

  • 2006 : The ACE Nancy-Lorraine gains the Coupe of the Football league by beating 2 goals with 1 OGC Nice Dimension-in Azur at the Stade de France.

  • 2007 : First turn of the French presidential election. Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal is qualified for the second turn of May 6th, in front of Francois Bayrou and Jean-Marie Le Pen

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

See too

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