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1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS

February 9 - Haiti invades the Dominican Republic .

March 30 - Florida becomes a United States Territory . (See History Of Florida .)

secures the independence of Quito .

June 14 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference Engine

July 8 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom . (See Treaty Timeline - Individual Treaties with maps at {Link without Title} .)

defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae .

July 27 - Simón Bolívar and general José De San Martín meet in Guayaquil . Bolívar later annexes Guayaquil. (See Guayaquil Conference )

July 28 - Independence Day in Peru (see History Of Peru )

July 31 - Last public Whipping in Edinburgh

August 12 - St David's College (now the University Of Wales, Lampeter ) founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess

September 7 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal (see Brazilian Independence )

September 16 - George Canning appointed British Secretary Of State For Foreign Affairs .

October 12 - Peter I Of Brazil declared constitutional emperor of the Brazilian Empire

October-December - Congress Of Verona at which Russia , Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain

falls to the Greek rebels

December 1 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil (see The Reign Of Pedro I, 1822-31 .)

Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone .

Galileo Galilei 's ''Dialogue'' taken off the Index Librorum Prohibitorum , the Roman Catholic Church 's list of banned books.

Ashley's Hundred leave from St. Louis setting off a major increase in Fur Trade .

An Earthquake in Chile raises the coastal area

Coffee ban in Sweden abolished

Britain repeals Death Penalty for over 100 crimes. (See Capital Punishment In The United Kingdom ).

First group of freed slaves from USA arrive to modern-day Liberia and founded Monrovia . (See History Of Liberia .)

BIRTHS

January 2 - Rudolf Clausius , German physicist (d. 1888 )

January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann , German archaeologist (d. 1890 )

January 28 - Alexander Mackenzie , second Prime Minister Of Canada (d. 1892 )

February 16 - Sir Francis Galton , English explorer and biologist (d. 1911 )

April 3 - Edward Everett Hale , American writer (d. 1909 )

April 27 - Ulysses S. Grant , 18th President Of The United States (d. 1885 )

May 20 - Frédéric Passy , French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912 )

May 26 - Edmond De Goncourt , French writer (d. 1896 )

June 10 - John Jacob Astor III , American businessman (d. 1890 )

July 18 - Princess Augusta Of Cambridge (d. 1916 )

July 22 - Gregor Mendel , Austrian geneticist (d. 1884 )

October 4 - Rutherford B. Hayes , 19th President of the United States (d. 1893 )

December 10 - César Franck , Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890 )

December 24 - Matthew Arnold , English poet (d. 1888 )

December 27 - Louis Pasteur , French microbiologist and chemist (d. 1895 )

DEATHS

January 15 - John Aikin , English physician and writer (b. 1747 )

January 24 - Ali Pasha , Albanian ruler (b. 1741 )

June 25 - E.T.A. Hoffman , German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776 )

May 8 - John Stark , American Revolutionary War general (b. 1728 )

July 8 - Percy Bysshe Shelley , English poet (b. 1792 )

August 12 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh , British foreign secretary (suicide) (b. 1769 )

August 25 - William Herschel , German-born astronomer (b. 1738 )