1822

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1819 1820 1821 - 1822 - 1823 1824 1825\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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\n1822 in art
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\n1822 in sports\n----\nList of state leaders in 1822
\nList of religious leaders in 1822\n|}

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* March 30 - Florida becomes a United States territory.\n* May 24 - Battle of Pichincha: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.\n* 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]\n* July 8 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.\n* September 7 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal\n* September 16 - George Canning appointed British foreign secretary.\n* October 12 - Peter I of Brazil declared constitutional emperor of the Brazilian Empire\n* October-December - Congress of Verona at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain\n* December 1 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil. \n*Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.\n*Galileo Galilei's Dialogue taken off the Index librorum prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.\n*Ashley's Hundred leave from St. Louis setting off a major increase in fur trade.\n* An earthquake in Chile raises the coastal area, adding 100.000 square miles of new land\n* Coffee ban in Sweden abolished\n* Greeks rebel against Ottoman Empire\n* Britain repeals death penalty for over 100 crimes\n* First group of freed slaves from USA arrive to modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia\n* Fire in Oulu, Finland

Births

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

Deaths

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