What happened in 1822

24 events　World 2, North America 3, Europe 14, Asia 1, Middle East 2, Latin America 2

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Highlights of 1822

World2

  • Jan 9The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portugal's King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
  • Oct 31Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of the First Mexican Empire dissolves the country's Congress of the Union, and replaces it with a military junta.

North America3

  • Apr 25The American Colonization Society lands at Cape Mesurado on the West African coast, after purchasing of coastline. The settlement will soon become Monrovia, as the nation of Liberia is established to fill the ACS mission of freeing black American slaves and sending them "back to Africa".
  • Nov 13The Congregation of St. Basil is founded in France.
  • The Rocky Mountain Fur Company (Ashley's Hundred) leave from St. Louis, Missouri, setting off a major increase in fur trade.

Europe14

  • Jan 1The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
  • Jan 13The design of the modern-day flag of Greece is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus, for their naval flag.
  • Mar 19The Holy Alliance sends the Ottoman Empire a final ultimatum after Ottoman repression of Austrian subjects in Bucharest during the Wallachian uprising, otherwise facing war with Austria.
  • Mar 31Greek War of Independence – Chios massacre: 20,000 Greeks on the island of Chios are slaughtered by Ottoman troops, and 23,000 more are exiled.
  • May 26Grue Church fire: The biggest fire disaster in Norway's history kills 116 people.
  • Jun 18Greek War of Independence: Konstantinos Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy's flagship at Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha.
  • Jul 3Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a difference engine, a forerunner of the modern computer, for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions. Construction of an operational version will proceed under British Government sponsorship (1823–1832), but it will never be completed.
  • Aug 12Lord Castlereagh, the British Foreign Secretary, commits suicide at his house in Kent. He is judged to have been insane at the time.
  • Aug 16The body of British poet Percy Bysse Shelley, who died on July 8 in the sinking of his boat Don Juan, is cremated at the beach, 10 days after his decomposed remains had washed ashore in Italy near Viareggio, in the presence of Lord Byron and Edward John Trelawny, who claims to have seized Shelley's heart from the flames.
  • Sep 8Battle of Nauplia: In a series of naval engagements, the Ottoman Fleet fails to break through the Greek Fleet, under Admiral Andreas Vokos Miaoulis.
  • Oct 20The Congress of Verona opens in the Austrian-ruled province of Lombardy-Venetia. The event is the largest diplomatic gathering since the Congress of Vienna seven years earlier. The Congress lasts until December 14, and Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain.
  • Nov 13Greek War of Independence: Nafplio falls to the Greek rebels.
  • Dec 14The Congress of Verona ends having endorsed French Intervention in Spain
  • Over the middle of the year Franz Schubert begins writing his Symphony No. 8, but leaves it unfinished.

Asia1

  • Feb 24The first Swaminarayan temple, Kalupur Swaminarayan Mandir at Ahmedabad in the British Raj, is inaugurated.

Middle East2

  • Jul 13Greek War of Independence: Greek soldiers defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.
  • Aug 5A sequence of earthquakes occurs in the northern part of the Ottoman Empire, causing severe damage from Gaziantep to Antakya in modern Turkey and from Aleppo to Khan Sheikhun in modern Syria. At least 20,000 people are killed.

Latin America2

  • May 24Battle of Pichincha: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.
  • Jul 26Guayaquil Conference: José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet Simón Bolívar.