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1549 Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
1792 During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1810 With the ''Grito de Dolores,'' Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
1992 The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.