According to Gregory calendar, on March 22, the day number in a year is 82 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 83. March 22 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Important Historical Events of 22 March in the World ⚡

Event YearIncident/Event
1508Ferdinand II of Aragon appointed Amerigo Vespucci as the post's chief navigator of Spain.
1739The invader Nadir Shah allowed his army to massacre in Delhi. The slaughter lasted 58 days.
1761The first life insurance policy in North America was issued in Philadelphia.
1765Stamp Act passed: The first direct British tax was imposed on American colonists by Prime Minister George Grenville.
1765The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, which required many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America to carry a tax stamp (pictured).
1784The hydroelectric Buddha was installed in the Vat Phra Cave at the base of Bangkok's Grand Palace.
1832The British Parliament, led by Charles Gray, passed the Reform Act, bringing about a sweeping change in the electoral system of England and Wales, which increased from about 500,000 voters to 813,000 voters.
1862San Marino concluded a treaty of friendship and cooperation with Italy.
1871William Woods Holden became the first American governor to be removed from office by impeachment.
1873In Puerto Rico, slavery was abolished.
1882The deadly infectious disease TB was identified. The scientist who discovered it was later awarded the Nobel Prize.
1890Ramachandra Chatterjee became the first person to get off the parachute.
1907The first taxi cab debuted in London with the parameters.
1913Phan Xich Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of the French, was arrested for organizing a rebellion against the colonial ruler of French Indochina, which was carried out by hisporters the next day.
1913Phan Xich Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organizing an uprising against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was carried out by his supporters the next day.
1920A pogrom by Azeris in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabagh destroyed the Armenian populated parts of the city.
1923Radio broadcast of Ice Hockey match for the first time.
1923The first radio broadcast of ice hockey was by Foster Hewitt.
1933The construction of the first Nazi concentration camp in the Holocaust—Dachau—was completed.
1943World War II – The entire population of the village of Khatyn Inbelars was exterminated by Nazi German forces, with the participation of the northern Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators.
1945Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan, and Yemen founded the Arab League, a regional organization that seeks to promote political, economic, cultural, scientific, and social programs designed to promote the interests of the Arab world. Provides facility.
1954The first shopping mall in Southfield, Michigan opened in the US.
1963Please Me, the first album recorded by The Beatles, was released.
1964The first vintage car rally was held in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
1977Mrs. Indira Gandhi resigned as Prime Minister.
1982NASA took its spacecraft Columbia on a third mission.
1984In what would go on to be the longest and costliest criminal trial in states history, teachers at McMartin Preschool in Manhattanbeck, California, were wrongly accused of performing satanic rituals.
1993Introducing the Intel Pentium-Processor (80586) 64bits - 60MHz - 100+ MIPS.
1995The deputy governor of the Bank of England, Rupert Pennat-Reay, resigns following the revelation of his affair with a freelance journalist.
1995Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov of Soyuz departed from the Mir space station after 437 days in space, setting the record for the longest spaceflight.
1997Comet Hale-Bopp is approaching Earth.
1997Tara Lipinski of the United States won the Ladies Figure Skating Championships in Lausanne.
2002In Britain, a woman with a paralyzed lower neck was given the right to die.
2006The ETA terrorist group declares a ceasefire in Spain.
2007Pakistan test-fired the Hatf-7 missile.
2010Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 US Passed by the House of Representatives.
2011The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant reports radiation levels 1600 times the normal levels present 20 km from the plant.
2011Lawrence Taylor was convicted of sexual misconduct and banned for six years of play.
2012Over 200,000 people march in Montreal, Canada to protest against post-secondary education tuition hikes.
2013The British Food Standards Agency reports a discovery in Lancashire of 100 kg of horse meat imported from Hungary, labeled as beef.
2014The Brazilian government is auctioning off part of the country's television bandwidth spectrum to mobile phone companies, providing much-needed capacity to meet wireless demand.
238Due to his advanced age, Gordian I was proclaimed Roman Emperor with his son, Gordian II.

Important Historical Events of 22 March in India ⚡

Event YearIncident/Event
1942The Cripps Mission came to India under the leadership of Sir Stafford Cripps.
1947Lord Lewis Mountbatten came to India as the last Viceroy.
1999Best makeup award for Indian Shekhar Kapur's film 'Elizabeth'.

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Day/ObservanceLevel
World Water DayInternational Day
World Water DayInternational Day

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