1622 - Definition and Overview

Events

• January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.
• February 8 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
• March 22 - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population).
• Étienne Brûlé is the first European to see Lake Superior.
• Portugal loses control of the island of Ormus, after 107 years.
• Albertus Magnus is beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.
• Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys, while carrying copper, silver, gold, tobacco, and indigo. (Wreck discovered 1985).

Births

• January 15 - Molière, French playwright
• November 18 - King Charles X of Sweden

Deaths

• January 23 - William Baffin, explorer
• February 11 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
• May 20 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey
• Melchior Adam - German divine and biographer.