Important Historical Events of the year 1822, Year 1822 in History

List of 1822 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1822

What happened in the year 1822?

Date Event
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.