1822

Years: 1819 1820 1821 - 1822 - 1823 1824 1825

Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1822 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1822 MDCCCXXII Ab urbe condita 2575 Armenian calendar 1271 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԱ Assyrian calendar 6572 Balinese saka calendar 1743–1744 Bengali calendar 1229 Berber calendar 2772 British Regnal year 2 Geo. 4 – 3 Geo. 4 Buddhist calendar 2366 Burmese calendar 1184 Byzantine calendar 7330–7331 Chinese calendar 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4519 or 4312     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4520 or 4313 Coptic calendar 1538–1539 Discordian calendar 2988 Ethiopian calendar 1814–1815 Hebrew calendar 5582–5583 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1878–1879  - Shaka Samvat 1743–1744  - Kali Yuga 4922–4923 Holocene calendar 11822 Igbo calendar 822–823 Iranian calendar 1200–1201 Islamic calendar 1237–1238 Japanese calendar Bunsei 5 (文政５年) Javanese calendar 1749–1750 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 12 days Korean calendar 4155 Minguo calendar 90 before ROC 民前90年 Nanakshahi calendar 354 Thai solar calendar 2364–2365 Tibetan calendar 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1948 or 1567 or 795     — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1949 or 1568 or 796

1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Events

• March 30 - Florida becomes a United States territory.
• May 24 - Battle of Pichincha: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.
• June 14 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables."[1]
• July 8 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
• July 28 - Independence Day in Peru
• September 7 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal
• September 16 - George Canning appointed British foreign secretary.
• October 12 - Peter I of Brazil declared constitutional emperor of the Brazilian Empire
• August 12 - St David's College, now the University of Wales, Lampeter founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess
• October-December - Congress of Verona at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain
• December 1 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil.
• 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, adding 100.000 square miles (260,000 km²) of new land
• Coffee ban in Sweden abolished
• Greeks rebel against Ottoman Empire
• Britain repeals death penalty for over 100 crimes
• First group of freed slaves from USA arrive to modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia
• Fire in Oulu, Finland

Births

• January 4 - Georg Büchmann, philologist (d. 1884)
• January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist
• January 28 - Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada
• February 16 - Sir Francis Galton, explorer, biologist (d. 1911)
• April 3 - Edward Everett Hale, writer, (d. 1909)
• May 26 - Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
• June 10 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (d. 1890)
• July 18 - Her Royal Highness Princess Augusta of Cambridge
• July 22 - Gregor Mendel, geneticist (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)
• Charles A. Alexander, English architect

Deaths

• July 7 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
• August 12 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign secretary, cut his own throat
• August 25 - William Herschel, astronomer (b. 1738)
• Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler under the Ottoman Empire
• John Aikin, English doctor and writer