Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on December 22 across the 3 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
a fire that began in a drunken carpenter's accidental candle-tip in rue Tristin and burned for 6 days, destroying 945 timber-framed houses across nearly the entire historic center.
one of the leaders of the Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821) and a Catholic priest who became a military genius of the independence struggle — was executed by Spanish royalists at Ecatepec on December 22, 1815; Morelos's "Sentimientos de la Nación (Sentiments of the…
Hitachi, Ltd. was founded on December 22, 1910 by Namihei Odaira (1874-1951) as an electrical-machinery repair shop at the Kuhara Mining Company's Hitachi mine in Ibaraki Prefecture.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →