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'''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).
Events
*
February 9 -
Haiti invades the
Dominican Republic.
*
March 30 -
Florida becomes a
Incorporated territory United States territory. (See
History of Florida.)
*
May 24 -
Battle of Pichincha:
Simón BolÃvar secures the independence of
Quito.
*
June 14 -
Charles Babbage proposes a
Difference engine
*
July 8 -
Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in
Ontario to the
United Kingdom. (See Treaty Timeline - Individual Treaties with maps at [http://www.manitobachiefs.com/treaty/timeline.html#sectindividual].)
*
July 13 -
Greek War of Independence:
Greece Greeks defeat
Ottoman Empire Ottoman forces at
Thermopylae.
*
July 27 -
Simón BolÃvar and general
José de San MartÃn meet in
Guayaquil. BolÃvar later annexes Guayaquil. (See
Guayaquil conference)
*
July 28 - Independence Day in
Peru (see
History_of_Peru#Independence_from_Spain History of Peru)
*
July 31 - Last public
whipping in
Edinburgh
*
August 12 - St David's College (now the
University of Wales, Lampeter) founded by Bishop
Thomas Burgess
*
September 7 -
Brazil declares its independence from
Portugal (see
Empire of Brazil#Brazilian independence Brazilian independence)
*
September 16 -
George Canning appointed
United Kingdom British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
*
October 12 -
Peter I of Brazil declared constitutional emperor of the
Empire of Brazil Brazilian Empire
* October-December -
Congress of Verona at which
Russia,
Austria and
Prussia approve
France French intervention in
Spain
*
November 13 -
Greek War of Independence:
Nafplion falls to the Greek rebels
*
December 1 -
Peter I of Brazil Peter I is crowned as Emperor of
Brazil (see
Empire of Brazil#The reign of Pedro I, 1822-31 The reign of Pedro I, 1822-31.)
*
Egyptian hieroglyph Hieroglyphs deciphered by
Thomas Young (scientist) Thomas Young and
Jean-François Champollion using the
Rosetta Stone.
*
Galileo Galilei's
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems ''Dialogue'' taken off the
Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the
Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.
*
Ashley's Hundred leave from
St. Louis, Missouri 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.)
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 22 -
Gregor Mendel, Austrian 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)
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)
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