1822 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1822?
- January 1, 1822 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- January 9, 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
- January 13, 1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- January 14, 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti.
- February 24, 1822 – The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
- March 30, 1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
- March 31, 1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
- May 16, 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
- May 24, 1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
- June 14, 1822 – 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”.
- July 8, 1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
- July 26, 1822 – First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
- September 7, 1822 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
- September 27, 1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
- October 12, 1822 – Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil
- October 19, 1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
- October 31, 1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Mexican Empire.
- November 9, 1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
- November 16, 1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
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