Years: 1819 1820 1821 - 1822 - 1823 1824 1825

Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1822 in art 1822 in literature 1822 in rail transport 1822 in science 1822 in music 1822 in sports List of state leaders in 1822 List of religious leaders in 1822

Events

• March 30 - Florida becomes a United States territory.
• May 24 - Battle of Pichincha: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.
• 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] (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Babbage.html)
• July 8 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
• July 28 - Independence Day in Peru
• September 7 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal
• September 16 - George Canning appointed British foreign secretary.
• 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
• December 1 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil.
• 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, adding 100.000 square miles (260,000 km²) of new land
• Coffee ban in Sweden abolished
• Greeks rebel against Ottoman Empire
• Britain repeals death penalty for over 100 crimes
• First group of freed slaves from USA arrive to modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia
• Fire in Oulu, Finland

Births

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

Deaths

• July 7 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
• August 12 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign secretary, cut his own throat
• August 25 - William Herschel, astronomer (b. 1738)
• Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler under the Ottoman Empire
• John Aikin, English doctor and writer

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