History Hop Tags - Appointed

644-12-14

Uthman ibn Affan, companion of Mmohammed, appointed 3rd Caliph of islam

866-07-21

John appointed bishop of the kingdom

976-10-02

Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba

979-12-25

Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom

1203-08-01

Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium

1329-08-09

Quilon the first Indian Diocese was erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus was appointed the first Bishop

1412-01-16

The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.

1420-05-25

Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.

1440-04-09

Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.

1476-07-11

Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.

1483-10-17

Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain

1514-09-15

Thomas Wolsey appointed Archbishop of York

1515-12-24

Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor

1529-07-26

Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru

1529-10-26

Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor of England

1534-04-15

Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII

1536-12-22

English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal

1549-02-10

Tomé de Sousa appointed governor general of Brazil

1551-04-11

English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland

1553-08-23

Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor

1558-05-03

Ferdinand I officially appointed Holy Roman Emperor after his brother Charles abdicated in 1556

1561-02-22

William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais

1563-02-27

William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral

1584-11-10

Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland

1594-04-15

Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)

1610-06-10

Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia

1611-03-04

George Abbot appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

1612-10-28

Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I

1613-02-20

Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch gov-gen of East-Indies

1622-09-05

Richelieu appointed Cardinal under French King Louis XIII

1624-08-13

Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII

1625-04-07

Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander

1625-05-01

Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland

1625-08-06

Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen

1625-08-16

Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe

1626-02-27

Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.

1629-09-24

Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies

1632-04-16

Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander

1632-08-28

Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe

1632-10-05

Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen

1636-08-04

Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil

1641-12-06

Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands

1653-02-07

Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France

1653-12-16

Parliamentarian General Oliver Cromwell appointed as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

1654-10-15

Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel

1673-02-21

Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet

1675-02-21

Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland

1675-03-04

John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England

1682-07-14

Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London

1683-09-06

Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance

1699-12-03

Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague

1720-02-10

Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England

1722-01-24

Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st north American divinity professor (Harvard)

1722-03-17

Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente

1722-11-02

Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland

1727-07-17

Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor

1731-06-24

Freemason and Mayor of Philadelphia William Allen is appointed Provincial Grand Master of Pennsylvania, the first and youngest Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania

1746-09-23

Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor

1747-04-25

Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand

1747-05-03

Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht

1747-05-04

Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel

1755-11-14

Henry Fox appointed British 'Secretary of State for the Southern Department'

1763-02-12

John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs

1775-06-15

George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army

1777-10-15

Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers (Penn)

1779-01-18

John Dickinson is appointed to be a delegate for Delaware to the Continental Congress

1784-06-09

John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions

1786-02-24

Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India

1787-12-06

Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor

1789-09-11

Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury

1789-09-26

Thomas Jefferson appointed 1st US Sec of State; John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice;

1791-11-21

Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.

1801-01-20

John Marshall appointed US chief justice

1802-01-29

John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress

1827-01-17

Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander

1832-01-17

Johannes van den Bosch appointed gov-gen of Dutch-Indies

1841-09-24

Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah)

1843-07-05

Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country

1846-08-26

W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)

1847-01-16

John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.

1852-03-01

Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

1855-06-20

Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin

1863-01-19

General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland

1863-06-29

George Armstrong Custer, aged 23 appointed Union Brigadier General

1864-03-09

Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army

1866-07-25

David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral in US Navy

1868-12-03

1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial

1870-02-17

Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge

1874-07-23

Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.

1878-05-19

Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield

1878-06-11

DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974)

1881-05-17

Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC

1884-08-02

Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent

1887-03-24

Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)

1892-01-11

William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia

1897-08-04

Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia

1899-12-18

Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa

1900-11-30

The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route

1901-05-08

A British appointed commission estimates today that some 1,250,000 Indians have died after a severe drought, lasting since 1899

1902-06-26

Aga Khan III is appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire

1902-07-01

US Congress passes the Philippines Government Act, providing that the Philippines be governed by a commission appointed by the President, with consent from the senate; Filipinos are to be treated as citizens of their land, no the USA

1903-01-02

Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

1903-10-05

Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.

1905-01-31

Carroll Wright appointed 1st Commissioner of Labor, USA

1906-12-12

Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce

1910-03-26

William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US

1910-06-13

William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia

1910-09-12

World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)

1911-06-30

Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War

1911-08-14

General Leconte appointed temporary pres of Haiti

1912-03-01

Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, NYC

1914-02-01

Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed

1914-03-09

Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co

1914-07-30

John French appointed British supreme commander

1916-01-28

1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson

1920-04-13

1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed

1920-07-16

Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief

1920-09-28

Dirk Fock appointed as governor-general of Dutch East Indies

1920-10-29

Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees

1922-04-03

Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

1922-10-11

First woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)

1922-11-25

Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince regent

1924-05-10

J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI

1925-01-08

1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas

1926-03-26

ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies

1926-07-09

Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander

1930-03-29

Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.

1931-11-13

Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed first US woman senator

1933-02-28

1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor

1933-03-04

Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.

1935-07-22

Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia

1939-05-23

Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad

1939-08-30

General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army

1939-08-30

Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet

1940-05-14

Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production

1940-07-16

NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee

1940-07-20

Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist

1941-01-01

Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff

1941-07-19

President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee

1942-01-16

William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army

1942-06-25

Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe

1942-08-08

"Monty" appointed commander of British 8th Army at Alamein

1942-09-27

Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer)

1943-08-25

Lord Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia

1943-12-23

Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day

1944-01-04

Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department

1944-02-26

1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

1944-09-03

Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force

1945-11-14

Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government

1946-05-01

Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander

1947-02-20

Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India

1947-03-15

John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy

1950-10-25

Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia

1951-05-28

Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht

1951-07-22

General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal

1951-12-04

Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government.

1952-08-14

Mátyás Rákosi appointed premier of Hungary

1952-11-25

George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL

1953-01-21

John Foster Dulles appointed as US Secretary of State

1953-02-01

Dr A de Waal appointed as Neth 1st female asst sect of state

1953-04-01

J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea

1953-06-27

Joseph Laniel appointed French premier

1953-09-14

Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Malenkov

1953-09-30

Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

1954-02-25

Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier

1954-03-04

JE Wilkins appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member

1954-08-02

Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia

1954-09-21

Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting UN

1954-12-09

Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Royal Swedish Academy of Music

1955-02-01

HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark

1955-03-16

Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge

1955-09-06

J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname

1955-10-31

Mgr Alfrink appointed archbishop of Utrecht

1956-01-15

D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia

1956-02-15

Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland

1956-10-15

William J Brennan Jr appointed to US Supreme Court

1956-12-14

Paul-Henri Spaak appointed secretary-general of NATO

1957-02-01

Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam

1957-11-19

Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia

1958-03-01

Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.

1958-07-10

Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia

1958-09-02

Hendrik Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa

1958-10-07

Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court

1961-02-09

Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo

1961-08-09

James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court

1961-10-10

Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court

1961-12-15

L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels

1962-03-19

Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal

1962-04-05

Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp

1962-10-15

Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court

1963-05-20

Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia

1964-06-23

Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed US ambassador in South Vietnam

1964-10-30

Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam

1965-01-18

H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname

1965-04-13

1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by NY Sen Jacob Javits

1966-01-08

Georges Pompidou re-appointed French Prime Minister and forms new government

1969-01-24

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa

1969-09-08

Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya

1970-05-14

Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court

1971-06-04

J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO

1971-06-09

Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan

1971-06-15

Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League

1971-10-27

Gerard Newe becomes the first Catholic to serve in any Northern Ireland government since 1920; Newe was appointed to try to improve community relations

1971-12-09

Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court

1972-03-26

William Whitelaw appointed as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

1972-07-05

Pierre Messmer appointed French premier

1972-08-16

Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches

1973-03-14

Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland

1973-06-08

Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain

1973-08-01

H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF

1974-10-18

Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam

1975-12-17

John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court

1977-04-21

Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh

1977-08-31

Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus

1978-01-19

Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI

1978-01-25

Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat

1978-05-21

Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect

1978-08-28

Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran

1979-09-18

Steven Lachs, appointed as California's first openly gay judge

1979-12-10

Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament

1980-08-11

Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran

1981-09-22

Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court

1982-10-05

Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia

1985-07-02

Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR

1986-02-09

Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen

1986-09-25

Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court

1987-04-17

Richard Wilbur appointed as US poet laureate

1988-02-11

Anthony M Kennedy appointed to US Supreme Court

1988-03-15

Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop

1990-01-05

J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL

1990-06-29

World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, appointed, New Zealand

1990-09-13

Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner

1992-10-27

Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies

1993-03-27

Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.

1993-06-14

Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey

1993-10-16

General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president

1993-11-04

Jean Chretien is appointed the Prime Minister of Canada by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn

1994-03-07

David Platt appointed captain of English football team

1994-04-22

Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam

1994-10-07

Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan

1995-02-23

Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi

1997-08-07

Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier

2002-01-02

Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.

2012-07-18

Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army

2012-11-04

Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church

2013-07-03

Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, is deposed by the military with Adly Mansour appointed interim president

2014-02-27

Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of the Ukraine

1739-09-17

John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)

1885-02-04

Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator (appointed)

1825-02-24

Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies

1962-03-04

Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77