1822
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1790s 1800s 1810s – 1820s – 1830s 1840s 1850s |
| Years: | 1819 1820 1821 – 1822 – 1823 1824 1825 |
| 1822 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Sports – Rail Transport |
| Countries: Australia – Canada – China – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1822
January–June
Destruction of Ottoman flagship at Chios by Kanaris
- February 9 – The invading Haitian forces led by Jean Pierre Boyer arrive in Santo Domingo, to overthrow the newly founded Republic.
- May 24 – Battle of Pichincha: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.
- May 26 – 116 people die in the Grue Church fire. It's the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
- June 14 – Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine.
July–December
- July 8 – The Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
- July 13 – Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.
- July 26 – José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
- July 27 – Simón Bolívar and General José de San Martín meet in Guayaquil. Bolívar later annexes Guayaquil (See Guayaquil Conference).
- July 31 – The last public whipping is carried out in Edinburgh.
- August 12 – St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) is founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess.
- August 22 – The English ship Orion lands at Yerba Buena, now named San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson.
- September 7 – Brazil declares its independence from Portugal (see Brazilian independence).
- September 16 – George Canning is appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
- September 22 – Portugal approves its first Constitution.
- October 12 – Peter I of Brazil is declared the constitutional emperor of the Brazilian Empire.
- October–December – Congress of Verona: Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain.
- November 13 – Greek War of Independence: Nafplion falls to the Greek rebels.
- November 13 – founding of the religious order, the Basilians (Congregation of St. Basil).
- December 1 – Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil (see The reign of Pedro I, 1822–31).
Undated
Jean-François Champollion
- Hieroglyphs are deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone.
- Galileo Galilei's Dialogue is taken off the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.
- Ashley's Hundred leave from St. Louis, setting off a major increase in fur trade.
- An earthquake in Chile raises the coastal area.
- Coffee is no longer banned in Sweden.
- Britain repeals the death penalty for over 100 crimes (see Capital punishment in the United Kingdom).
- The first group of freed slaves from the USA arrive in modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia (see History of Liberia).
- The Graham Cracker is developed in Bound Brook, New Jersey by the Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham.
- Gist Masion is built in Wellsburg, West Virginia (used some 100 years later for the Brooke Hills Spooktacular.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1822 MDCCCXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2575 |
| Armenian calendar | 1271 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -22 – -21 |
| Bengali calendar | 1229 |
| Berber calendar | 2772 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2366 |
| Burmese calendar | 1184 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7330 – 7331 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年十二月初九日 (4458/4518-12-9) — to —
壬午年十一月十九日(4459/4519-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 1538 – 1539 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1814 – 1815 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5582 – 5583 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1878 – 1879 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1744 – 1745 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4923 – 4924 |
| Holocene calendar | 11822 |
| Iranian calendar | 1200 – 1201 |
| Islamic calendar | 1237 – 1238 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunsei 5 (文政5年) |
| Korean calendar | 4155 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2365 |
- January 2 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
- January 6 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
- January 25 – Charles Reed Bishop, preeminent businessman and philanthropist in Hawaii (d. 1915)
- January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
- February 4 – Edward Fitzgerald Beale, American Navy Lieutenant and explorer
- February 16 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
- March 4 – Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
- April 3 – Edward Everett Hale, American writer (d. 1909)
- April 26 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
- April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
- May 20 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912)
- May 26 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
- June 10 – John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (d. 1890)
- July 18 – Princess Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)
- July 20 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist (d. 1884)
- July 21 – Alexander H. Jones, Congressional Representative from North Carolina. (d. 1901)
- October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
- October 5 – Hans Hampel, Czech composer and pianist (d. 1884)
- December 10 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
- December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)
- December 27 – Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist (d. 1895)
Fictional Births
Deaths
- January 10 – Bathilde d'Orléans, French princess (b. 1750)
- January 24 – Ali Pasha, ruler of European Turkey (b. 1741)
- February 10 – Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (b. 1738)
- February 24 – Thomas Coutts, banker (b. 1735)
- February 27 – Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet, admiral (b. 1753)
- April 20 – Allegra Byron, illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (b. 1817)
- May 27 – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1772)
- June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic author (b. 1776)
- July 8 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
- August 4 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (b. 1801)
- August 12 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign secretary (suicide) (b. 1769)
- August 25 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
- October 26 – Mahmud Dramali Pasha, Ottoman vizier (b. c. 1780)
- October 31 – Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (b. 1749)