ON 22 MARCH IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on March 22, 2019
924: Birth of Dinh Bo Linh, the first emperor of Vietnam who died in 979
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinh_Bo_Linh
1212: Birth of Go-Horikawa, 86th Emperor of Japan (1221-1232) who died in August 1234
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Horikawa
1185: Battle of Yashima, victory of the Minamoto on the Taira
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yashima
1685: Death of Emperor Go-Sai of Japan, born on January 1, 1638
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Sai
1692: Chinese emperor Kangxi issues a Royal Decree allowing Catholic missionaries in China freedom to preach
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2463.html
1739: After some of his Persian troops are killed in occupied Delhi, Nader Shah orders his soldiers to plunder the city. During the course of one day 20,000 to 30,000 Indians are killed by the Persian troops, forcing Mohammad Shah to beg for mercy and stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nader_Shah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacock_Throne
1784: In Thailand, the Esmeralda Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phra_Kaew
1811: Birth of Sakuma Shozan, Japanese politician and scholar, assassinated on August 12, 1864
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuma_Shozan
1869: Birth of Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino independence leader and first president of the Philippines who died on February 6, 1964
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/aguinaldo.html
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1028/today-in-philippine-history-march-22-1869-emilio-aguinaldo-was-born-in-kawit-cavite
1896: Birth of He Long, Chinese marshal, who died on June 8, 1969
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Long-March/Long-March-He-Long.html
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2623.html
1897: In the Philippines, by the Tejeros Convention, the Katipunan (KKK) rebellion establishes a government with Emilio Aguinaldo as president
http://www.msc.edu.ph/centennial/tejeros.html
1901: Japan proclaims that it is determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea
1907: Thousands of Indians living in South Africa follow the lead of Mohandas K. Gandhi engaging in a campaign of civil disobedience to protest their treatment by the government.
1907: Russians troops completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese forces
1913: Death of Song Jiaoren (Sung Chiao-jen), a founder of the Kuomintang after being mortally wounded at the Shanghai railway station two days before. He was 31
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-SungChia.html
1915 : The Sultan of Sulu, Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram, signs an agreement with the US governor of the Department of Mindano and Sulu, Frank W. Carpenter, renouncing his sovereignty over the Sulu archipelago.
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1703/today-in-philippine-history-march-22-1915-the-sultan-of-sulu-relinquished-his-sovereignty-over-sulu
1916: The last Emperor of China, since December 12, 1915, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored
http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/bio/xyz/yuansh.html
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2980.html
1929: Birth of P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, singer and song writer, who died on May 27, 1973
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Ramlee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymF__5CeZlI
1929: Birth of Yayoi Kusama, Japanese painter and scuptor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Yayoi+Kusama&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=imvnsol&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=IgVqT8vFHcjRhAet59HYCA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CB0Q_AUoAQ&biw=1249&bih=569
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0LXh3sais
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kusama_yayoi.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RegxhTu748
1940: Birth of Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor, who died on February 25, 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haing_S._Ngor
1942: Sir Stanford Cripps, British statesman, arrives in India for talks with Mohandas Gandhi on Indian independence, in what will become known as the Cripps Mission
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cripps-and-gandhi-meet
http://www.historydiscussion.net/british-india/cripps-mission-march-1942-in-india-and-why-did-it-fail/2603
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A044
1957: Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_national_calendar
1962: Yun Bo-seon resigns as president of South Korea
http://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni/services/notable-alumni/alumni-in-history/yun-posun
1966: Birth of Song Kwang Sik, Korean singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Kwang-sik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZKguU2WDNM
1966: Death of Chinese philosopher Ai Siqi, born in 1910
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Siqi
http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&sqi=2&ved=0CDwQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmarxistphilosophy.org%2FAntagonisticASQ.pdf&ei=U6kNVcfFGML0UovhgIAK&usg=AFQjCNFuwXRk1aq2fKn49_Y1vAqu5Pj0rA&sig2=HRsozPDSUppEiznBZ9HgpA
1967: In China, during the Cultural Revolution the People’s Liberation Army take the control of the plants and factories
1973: General Suharto, president of Indonesia, and only one candidate, is reelected for five years and will be reelected up to 1998
1974: The Viet Cong proposes a new truce with the U.S. and South Vietnam. The truce included general elections
1977: Death of A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader, born on October 1, 1904
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Gopalan
1978: In Indonesia, General Suharto is reelected for a third term as President. He is the only one candidate
2005: Death of Gemini Ganesan, Tamil film star, born on November 17, 1920
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_Ganesan
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/22-march-2005-gemini-ganesan-tamil-film-star-died
2006: In the Philippines, beginning of the trial of former president Joseph Estrada charged to have illegally pocketed 77 million dollars during his tenure
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1063976.stm
2007: In Pakistan, the dismissal of the Supreme Judge Iftikar Muhammad Chaudry by General Musharraf causes important demonstrations by judges and members of the opposition
2007: Death of Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher, born on July 9, 1918
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppaluri_Gopala_Krishnamurti
2008: Ma Ying-jeou is elected as the new president of Taiwan with 58 % of the votes
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Ma_Ying-jeou_wins_2008_Taiwan_presidential_election
2009: South Africa’s embassy in New Delhi has denies travel documents to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, barring him from attending a peace conference in Johannesburg
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20090322-130260.html
2012: The UN Human Rights Council adopts a resolution urging Sri Lanka to investigate alleged abuses during the final phase of war with Tamil rebels.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17471300
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/22/world/asia/sri-lanka-war-crimes/index.html?hpt=ias_c2
2012: Top officials from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) meet in Beijing for the first time since the KMT’s victory in the island’s leadership election in January
http://uscpf.org/v3/2012/03/23/hu-jintao-kmt-chairman-wu-po-hsiung-meet-in-beijing/
2013: 62 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/03/23/42-die-fire-thailand-refugee-camp
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/62-myanmar-refugees-perish-in-fire-at-thailand-camp/article4541705.ece
2014: The Maldives hold parliamentary elections on schedule despite worries about the ability of the resort island’s turmoil-hit elections commission to stage the ballot successfully
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/maldives-holds-parliamentary-polls-despite-delay-fear-554779
http://thecommonwealth.org/media/news/maldives-parliamentary-elections-2014-interim-statement
2014: Death of Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian author, born on August 21, 1928
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/yashwant-chittal-dead/article5821000.ece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yashwant_Vithoba_Chittal
2014: Communist Party of the Philippines chairman Benito Tiamzon and his wife, the party’s secretary general Wilma Tiamzon, are arrested in a joint police and military operation
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/588186/red-leaders-captured
2015: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena forms a national government incorporating the main opposition party in a bid to push through reforms and preserve political stability
2015: Sri Lanka’s new government confers for the firtst time the highest military rank of field marshal on retired army chief Sarath Fonseka, who had been jailed for alleged treason by the previous government
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/23/ex-army-chief-sarath-fonseka-jailed-for-treason-made-field-marshal-in-sri-lanka
2018: Ex-South Korean president Lee Myung-bak arrested ‘for taking US$10.2 million in bribes while in office’
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2138505/arrest-warranted-reportedly-issued-former-south-korean-president
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3045997
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/837090.html