1822
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| 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: |
| Humanities |
| Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music |
| By country |
| Australia - Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK |
| Other topics |
| Rail Transport - Science - Sports |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial Governors - State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1822 MDCCCXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2575 |
| Armenian calendar | 1271 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԱ |
| Chinese calendar | 4458/4518-12-9 (辛巳年十二月初九日) — to —
4459/4519-11-19(壬午年十一月十九日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1814 – 1815 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5582 – 5583 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1877 – 1878 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1744 – 1745 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4923 – 4924 |
| Iranian calendar | 1200 – 1201 |
| Islamic calendar | 1238 – 1239 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunsei 5 (文政5年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2482 (皇紀2482年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11822 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2365 |
1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
Contents |
[edit] Events
[edit] February
- February 9 - Haiti invades the Dominican Republic.
[edit] March
- March 30 - Florida becomes a United States territory. (See History of Florida.)
[edit] May
- May 24 - Battle of Pichincha: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.
[edit] June
- June 14 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine.
[edit] July
- July 8 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. (See Treaty Timeline - Individual Treaties with maps at [1].)
- 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 28 - Independence Day in Peru (see History of Peru).
- July 31 - Last public whipping in Edinburgh.
[edit] August
- August 12 - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess.
[edit] September
- September 7 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal (see Brazilian independence).
- September 16 - George Canning appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
[edit] October
- October 12 - Peter I of Brazil declared constitutional emperor of the Brazilian Empire.
- October-December - Congress of Verona at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain.
[edit] November
- November 13 - Greek War of Independence: Nafplion falls to the Greek rebels.
[edit] December
- December 1 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil (see The reign of Pedro I, 1822-31.)
[edit] Unknown dates
- Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.
- Galileo Galilei's Dialogue 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 ban in Sweden abolished.
- Britain repeals death penalty for over 100 crimes. (See Capital punishment in the United Kingdom).
- First group of freed slaves from USA arrive to modern-day Liberia and founded Monrovia. (See History of Liberia.)
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
- January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
- January 28 - Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
- February 16 - Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
- April 3 - Edward Everett Hale, American writer (d. 1909)
- 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)
- October 4 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - John Aikin, English physician and writer (b. 1747)
- January 24 - Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler (b. 1741)
- June 25 - E.T.A. Hoffman, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
- May 8 - John Stark, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1728)
- July 8 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
- August 12 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign secretary (suicide) (b. 1769)
- August 25 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: |
