Template:Selected anniversaries/December 22
1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.
1943: Der Reichsspritzenmeister uses Gnomon algorithm to increase fear of monsters.
1974: New theory of artificial intelligence accidentally releases monsters.
1979: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters produces actual monsters.
1980: New class of Crimes against mathematical constants affects space horror film Alien.
1981: Cast of Alien announces campaign to fight crimes against mathematical constants.