1822

	1822 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
	Sports – Rail Transport
	Countries: Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s – 1820s – 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years:	1819 1820 1821 – 1822 – 1823 1824 1825

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).

[edit] Events of 1822

Destruction of Ottoman flagship at Chios by Kanaris

February 9 – The invading Haitian forces led by Jean Pierre Boyer arrive in Santo Domingo, to overthrow the newly founded Republic.
May 24 – Battle of Pichincha: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.
May 26 – 116 people die in the Grue Church fire. It's the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
June 14 – Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine.

Jean-François Champollion

Hieroglyphs are deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone.
Galileo Galilei's Dialogue is 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 is no longer banned in Sweden.
Britain repeals the death penalty for over 100 crimes (see Capital punishment in the United Kingdom).
The first group of freed slaves from the USA arrive in modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia (see History of Liberia).
The Graham Cracker is developed in Bound Brook, New Jersey by the Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham.
Gist Masion is built in Wellsburg, West Virginia (used some 100 years later for the Brooke Hills Spooktacular.

January 2 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
January 6 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
January 25 – Charles Reed Bishop, preeminent businessman and philanthropist in Hawaii (d. 1915)
January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
February 4 – Edward Fitzgerald Beale, American Navy Lieutenant and explorer
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 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)
October 5 – Hans Hampel, Czech composer and pianist (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)

January 10 – Bathilde d'Orléans, French princess (b. 1750)
January 24 – Ali Pasha, ruler of European Turkey (b. 1741)
February 10 – Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (b. 1738)
February 24 – Thomas Coutts, banker (b. 1735)
February 27 – Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet, admiral (b. 1753)
April 20 – Allegra Byron, illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (b. 1817)
May 27 – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1772)
June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic author (b. 1776)
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)
October 26 – Mahmud Dramali Pasha, Ottoman vizier (b. c. 1780)
October 31 – Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (b. 1749)

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