1822

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1817 1818 1819 1820 - 1821 - 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827

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.
• 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
• 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.

Year in topic

• 1822 in literature
• 1822 in science
• 1822 in music
• List of state leaders in 1822

Births

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

Deaths

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

Heads of states

• China - Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2, 1820 to February 25, 1850
• Denmark - Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-1839)
• France - Louis XVIII, King of France (1814-1824)
• Norway - Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1797-1840)
• Russia - Alexander I, Tsar of Russia (1801-1825)
• Spain - Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (1813-1833)
• United States - James Monroe, President of the United States (March 4, 1817 to March 4, 1825)