1822

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s  1800s  1810s  – 1820s –  1830s  1840s  1850s
Years:	1819 1820 1821 – 1822 – 1823 1824 1825

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, 18th American President (died 1885)
• October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th American President (died 1894)
• December 27 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (died 1895)