Events Date 1822 | History by KabAstro

Dia do Fico (I Stay Day)

Jan 9 Dia do Fico ("I Stay Day"): Prince Pedro of Portugal determines to stay in Brazil despite being recalled to Lisbon, leading him to become Dom Pedro I of Brazil

Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal Pedro I

Jan 13 The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus
Jan 14 Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti
Jan 15 Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
Feb 9 American Indian Society organizes
Feb 9 Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
Feb 23 Boston, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a city
Mar 9 Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth
Mar 19 Boston, Massachusetts incorporated as a city
Mar 22 NY Horticultural Society founded
Mar 30 Congress combines East & West Florida into Florida Territory
Mar 31 Massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, (later depicted by artist Eugène Delacroix)
Apr 1 Italian composer Luigi Cherubini becomes director of the Conservatoire de Paris music college, holds position for nearly 20 years
May 1 John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
May 3 Society for the Propagation of the Faith founded in Lyon, France
May 16 Greek War of Independence: Turks capture the Greek town of Souli

Battle of Pichincha

May 24 Battle of Pichincha, Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Ecuador from Spain

Military and Political Leader Simón Bolívar

May 30 George Wilson and Joe LaRoche betray a planned slave revolt organized by Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina, confirming an earlier warning from Peter Prioleau. 35 Black people are later hanged. (date is approximate)

Beaumont Treats Stomach Wound

Jun 6 Alexis St. Martin shot in the stomach and treated by physician William Beaumont on Mackinac Island. Leads Beaumont to conduct digestion experiments through hole in St. Martin's stomach.

Jun 9 Charles Graham of New York patents porcelain false teeth

Babbage's Difference Engine

Jun 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"

Jun 16 Denmark Vesey (aka Telemaque) Black American carpenter accused of planning a slave rebellion in South Carolina; tried and convicted, later executed by hanging
Jun 18 Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
Jun 21 Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas arrested in South Carolina
Jul 2 Denmark Vesey (aka Telemaque), accused of planning a slave rebellion in South Carolina, dies by hanging at approximately 55
Jul 8 Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom
Jul 14 Date planned for the slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina by Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas (plot already uncovered in June)

Emperor Agustin I

Jul 25 General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st Emperor of Mexico

1st Emperor of Mexico Agustín de Iturbide

Jul 25 Rebellion led by José de la Riva-Agüero begins in Lima against the local rule of Bernardo de Monteagudo
Jul 26 Secret meeting of Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martin
Jul 30 James Varick becomes 1st bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Aug 10 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die

Domitila Meets Pedro I

Aug 29 Domitila de Castro meets her long-term lover Dom Pedro I, then Prince of Portugal and later Emperor of Brazil, for the first time in São Paulo

Sep 7 Pedro I, son of King Joao VI declares Brazil's independence from Portugal (National Day)

Rosetta Stone

Sep 27 French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone

Oct 8 First eruption of Galunggung in Java sends boiling sludge into valley
Oct 12 Second eruption of Galunggung in Java destroys summit of mountain
Oct 12 The Empire of Brazil is inaugurated and Prince Pedro of Portugal is proclaimed Emperor Dom Pedro I on his 24th birthday
Oct 19 In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí
Oct 20 1st edition of London Sunday Times
Oct 26 King Willem I requires inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language
Dec 1 Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil