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 13, 1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- January 15, 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
- 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.
- May 26, 1822 – 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway’s history.
- June 6, 1822 – Alexis St. Martin accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont’s studies on digestion.
- 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 – José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
- 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 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.
- December 1, 1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
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