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Everything about 1822 totally explainedYear 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).
Events of 1822
January - June
July - December
July 8 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
July 13 - Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.
July 26 - José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
July 27 - Simón Bolívar and general José de San Martín meet in Guayaquil. Bolívar later annexes Guayaquil. (See Guayaquil conference)
July 28 - Independence Day in Peru (see History of Peru).
July 31 - Last public whipping in Edinburgh.
August 12 - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess.
August 22 - The English ship Orion landed at Yerba Buena, now named San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson
September 7 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal (see Brazilian independence).
September 16 - George Canning appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
September 22 - Portugal approves its first Constitution.
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.
November 13 - Greek War of Independence: Nafplion falls to the Greek rebels.
December 1 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil (see The reign of Pedro I, 1822-31.)
Undated
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.
An earthquake in Chile raises the coastal area.
Coffee ban in Sweden abolished.
Britain repeals death penalty for over 100 crimes. (See Capital punishment in the United Kingdom).
First group of freed slaves from USA arrive to modern-day Liberia and founded Monrovia. (See History of Liberia.)
Graham Cracker developed in Bound Brook, New Jersey by Presbyterian minister Rev. Sylvester Graham.
Gist Masion is built in Wellsburg, West Virginia, which some 100 years later is used for the Brooke Hills Spooktacular.
Births
January 2 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
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)
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)
» See also .
Deaths
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) » See also .
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