List of 1822 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1822
Date | Event |
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January 1, 1822 | The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. |
January 5, 1822 | The government of Central America votes for total annexation to the First Mexican Empire. |
January 9, 1822 | The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process. |
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: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly. |
February 9, 1822 | Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola. |
February 24, 1822 | The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated. |
March 30, 1822 | The Florida Territory is created in the United States. |
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 | At least 113 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history. |
June 6, 1822 | Alexis St Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion. |
June 14, 1822 | Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society. |
June 18, 1822 | Konstantinos Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy's flagship at Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha. |
July 2, 1822 | Thirty-five slaves, including Denmark Vesey, are hanged in South Carolina after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion. |
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. |
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 16, 1822 | French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence. |
September 27, 1822 | Jean-François Champollion officially informs the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in France that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone. |
October 12, 1822 | Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor. |
October 25, 1822 | Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins. |
October 31, 1822 | Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of 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 | Pedro I is crowned Emperor of Brazil. |
December 9, 1822 | French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence. |