1822
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1790s 1800s 1810s – 1820s – 1830s 1840s 1850s |
Years: | 1819 1820 1821 – 1822 – 1823 1824 1825 |
1822 Media
December 1: Dom Pedro I is crowned as the first Emperor of Brazil.
March 31: The Chios massacre of more than 20,000 Greek residents of Chios is carried out by Ottoman Empire troops.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Alfred Clint (died 1883). See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1822nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 822nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1822, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
- André-Marie Ampère discovered the attraction between current-carrying wires.
- The law of electric current and magnetic field was developed.
- The Sunday Times newspaper is first published in the United Kingdom.
Births
- February 25 – Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, British royal (died 1916)
- April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant, eighteenth President of the United States (d. 1885)
- October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, nineteenth President of the United States (d. 1893)
- December 27 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (died 1895)