What are the important events that happened on May 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

May 22: Facts & Myths About This Day

May 22 is the 142^nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 9, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,131,200 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontadigon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 271 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,535 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 22 Historical Events

• 1762 –
  Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
• 1809 –
  On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
• 1816 –
  A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
• 1826 –
  HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
• 1863 –
  American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
• 1871 –
  The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
• 1960 –
  An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
• 1964 –
  U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an “end to poverty and racial injustice” in America.
• 1968 –
  The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
• 2011 –
  An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing up to 161 people. It is the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.

Who were born on May 22?

• 1823 –
  Isabella Glyn, British actress (d. 1889)
• 1823 –
  Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
• 1841 –
  Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
• 1844 –
  Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
• 1879 –
  Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
• 1955 –
  Dale Winton, British radio DJ and television presenter
• 1965 –
  Fanis Christodoulou, Greek basketball player
• 1975 –
  Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice-hockey player
• 1986 –
  Luca Gentili, Italian footballer
• 1986 –
  Matt Jarvis, English footballer

Who died on May 22?

• 1760 –
  Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
• 1851 –
  Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
• 1861 –
  Thornsbury Bailey Brown, first Union soldier to be killed by a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War (b. 1829)
• 1932 –
  Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
• 1939 –
  Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
• 1966 –
  Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1988 –
  Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
• 1990 –
  Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 1992 –
  Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
• 2005 –
  Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)