1822

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).

Contents

Events of 1822

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

July - December

Unknown dates

Events of 1822

April - June

★ May 24 - Battle of Pichincha: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.

★ June 14 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine.

July - September

★ 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.

★ August 12 - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess.

★ August 22 - The English ship Orion landed 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 appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

★ September 22 - Portugal approves its first Constitution.

October - December

★ 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.

★ November 13 - Greek War of Independence: Nafplion falls to the Greek rebels.

★ December 1 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil (see The reign of Pedro I, 1822-31.)

Undated

★ 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.)

Births

January - June

★ 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)

★ March 4 - Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)

★ 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 - December

★ 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)

★ ''probable'' - Harriet Tubman
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Deaths

July - December

★ 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)

Unknown dates

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