Editing December 22 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1769]] &ndash; [[Sino-Burmese War (1765–69)|Sino-Burmese War]]: The war ends with the [[Qing dynasty]] withdrawing from Burma forever.<ref>{{cite book|last=Myint-U|first=Thant|title=The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma|location=New York|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|date=2006|isbn=9780571217595|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tsTOKi8l1ywC|page=104}}</ref>
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Nguyễn Huệ]] proclaims himself Emperor Quang Trung, in effect abolishing on his own the [[Lê dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book|title=75 Years of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, 1930-2005: A Selection of Documents from Nine Party Congresses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcmNAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Thế Giới Publishers|page=6}}</ref>
*[[1790]] &ndash; The Turkish fortress of [[Izmail]] is [[Siege of Izmail|stormed and captured]] by [[Alexander Suvorov]] and his Russian armies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|chapter=Leaders: Suvorov, Alexander Vasilievich|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East. Vol. 3: 1775—1860|editor-last=Tucker|editor-first=Spencer C.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2010|isbn=9781851096671|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC|page=863}}</ref>
*[[1807]] &ndash; The [[Embargo Act of 1807|Embargo Act]], forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] at the urging of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Olson|first1=James Stuart|last2=Mendoza|first2=Abraham O.|title=American Economic History: A Dictionary and Chronology|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2015|isbn=9781610696975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZK5BwAAQBAJ|page=188}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] conducts and performs in [[Beethoven concert of 22 December 1808|concert at the Theater an der Wien]], Vienna, with the premiere of his [[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Fifth Symphony]], [[Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)|Sixth Symphony]], [[Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)|Fourth Piano Concerto]] and ''[[Choral Fantasy (Beethoven)|Choral Fantasy]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Broyles|first=Michael|title=Beethoven in America|location=Bloomington, Ind.|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=2011|isbn=9780253357045|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LhqwwuONrgoC|page=41}}</ref>
*[[1851]] &ndash; India's first freight train is operated in [[Roorkee]], to transport material for the construction of the [[Ganges Canal]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mondal|first1=Bhaswati|last2=Samanta|first2=Gopa|title=Mobilities in India: The Experience of Suburban Rail Commuting|location=Cham, Switzerland|publisher=Springer|date=2021|isbn=9783030783495|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nTw6EAAAQBAJ|page=37}}</ref>
*  1851   &ndash; The [[Library of Congress]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], burns.<ref>{{cite web|last1=History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives|title=An 1851 Library of Congress Fire|url=http://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1800-1850/An-1825-Library-of-Congress-fire/|website=United States House of Representatives|access-date=23 October 2021}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Savannah, Georgia]], falls to the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union's]] [[Army of the Tennessee]], and General [[William Tecumseh Sherman|Sherman]] tells President [[Abraham Lincoln]]: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah".<ref>{{cite book|last=Reid|first=Brian Holden|title=The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2020|isbn=9780195392739|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TyPdDwAAQBAJ|page=371}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Itō Hirobumi]], a [[samurai]], becomes the first [[Prime Minister of Japan]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Takii|last=Kazuhiro|translator-first=Takechi|translator-last=Manabu|title=Itō Hirobumi Japan's First Prime Minister and Father of the Meiji Constitution|location=London|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-0-41583-886-3|page=52}}</ref>
*[[1888]] &ndash; The [[Christmas Meeting of 1888]], considered to be the official start of the [[Faroese independence movement]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Jóan Pauli|last=Joensen|title=Pilot Whaling in the Faroe Islands: History, Ethnography, Symbol|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=25dCtUOd_ZwC&pg=PA198|year=2009|publisher=Faroe University Press|isbn=978-99918-65-25-6|pages=198}}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Cornwallis Valley Railway]] begins operation between [[Kentville]] and [[Kingsport, Nova Scotia]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Stephens|first=David|title=Railways of Nova Scotia|journal=Journal of Education|date=Spring 1972|page=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uBJYvb9NekC&q=%2222+December%22|accessdate=22 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; Asteroid [[323 Brucia]] becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.<ref>{{cite book|last=Peebles|first=Curtis|title=Asteroids: A History|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|date=2001|isbn=9781560989820|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RbDkCwAAQBAJ|page=19}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; The [[Dreyfus affair]] begins in France, when [[Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of [[treason]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Derfler|first=Leslie|title=The Dreyfus Affair|location=Westport, Conn.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2002|isbn=9780313317910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d0iuOozRp1IC|pages=xvii, 1–2}}</ref>