1622

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Decades:	1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years:	1619 1620 1621 - 1622 - 1623 1624 1625

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Year 1622 (MDCXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1622
2 Births
- 2.1 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
- 3.1 Unknown dates

[edit] Events of 1622

[edit] January - June

March 22: Jamestown massacre.

January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.
February 8 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
March 22 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
May 13 — the Eendracht, Dutch VOC sailing ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian soil, is wrecked off the western coast of Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies.
May 25 - The English ship Tryall which left Plymouth, England for Batavia (now Jakarta, Java) wrecks on the Tryal Rocks, 9 months later (wreck discovered in 1969).

[edit] July - December

July 13/14 - English and Dutch ships defeat Portuguese near Mozambique.
October - French ships fight near La Rochelle (details).

Galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha sinks with 161 coin pieces & tons of silver.

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Dutch ships under Joachim Swartenhondt escorting a convoy repel a Spanish squadron near Gibraltar.

[edit] Undated

Étienne Brûlé is the first European to see Lake Superior.
Portugal loses control of the island of Ormus, after 107 years.
Albertus Magnus is beatified, and Teresa of Avila is canonized, by the Roman Catholic Church.
Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys, while carrying copper, ~35 tons of silver, 161 pieces of gold, tobacco, and indigo (Wreck discovered 1985).

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**1622 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1622 MDCXXII
Ab urbe condita	2375
Armenian calendar	1071 ԹՎ ՌՀԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-222 – -221
Buddhist calendar	2166
Chinese calendar	4258/4318-11-20 (辛酉年十一月二十日) — to — 4259/4319-11-29 (壬戌年十一月廿九日)
Ethiopian calendar	1614 – 1615
Hebrew calendar	5382 – 5383
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1677 – 1678
- Shaka Samvat	1544 – 1545
- Kali Yuga	4723 – 4724
Holocene calendar	11622
Iranian calendar	1000 – 1001
Islamic calendar	1031 – 1032
Japanese calendar	Genna 8 (元和8年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2282 (皇紀2282年)
- Jōmon Era	11622
Julian calendar	1667
Korean calendar	3955
Thai solar calendar	2165
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