February 22 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1857
Baden-Powell is born
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell is born in London. The hero of the siege of Mafeking will go on to found the Boy Scouts, turning his army scouting manual into a movement for youth. Scouting's promise and its famous wide-brimmed hat begin here.