1622

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1619 1620 1621 – 1622 – 1623 1624 1625

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 Native Americans kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and destroys the Henricus settlement.
• May 13 — the Eendracht, Dutch VOC sailing ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian soil, is wrecked off the western coast of Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies.
• 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).