1822 in History – What happened in year 1822

In history, year 1822 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1822.

Top Historical Events of the Year 1822:

Date/Month	Event / Incidence / Incident
13 january	The design of the current flag of Greece was adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus for their naval flag.
24 february	The first Swaminarayan temple, Swaminarayan Mandir in present-day Ahmedabad, India, was inaugurated.
30 march	The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory.
26 may	The deadliest fire in Norwegian history took place at a churchin Grue, Norway, with at least 113 deaths.
14 june	In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, Englishmathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine, anautomatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomialfunctions.
01 july	Daily newspaper 'Mumbai Samachar' was published. The Bombay Samachar is the oldest continuously published newspaper in India. Established by Fardunjee Marzban, it was published in Gujarati and English. It was composed three small quarto sheets with a half sheet supplement. It contained fourteen pages of printed matter.
27 september	In a letter to the Paris Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Jean-François Champollion announced his initial successes indeciphering the Rosetta Stone.
31 october	Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of the First Mexican Empiredissolved the Mexican Congress and replaced it with a military juntaanswerable only to him.
08 november	USS Alligator engaged three piratical schooners off the coastof Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the UnitedStates.
01 december	Pedro I was formally crowned the first Emperor of Brazil, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday, 12 October.
07 September	Brazil gained independence from the authority of Portugal. Today was declared as the National Day of Brazil.
30 November	Edward Jonze, a British physician and smallpox vaccine, died.
10 August	A devastating earthquake in Syria killed 20,000 people.
24 February	The world's first Swami Narayan temple was inaugurated in Ahmedabad.
09 March	Charles Egg Graham patented fake teeth for the first time.
13 January	The design of the country's modern flag was adopted by the National Assembly of Greece for their first naval flag in Epidador.
24 February	The first Swaminarayan temple, Kalpur Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad was inaugurated in the British Raj.
09 March	Charles Graham of New York granted the first US patent for denture.
01 May	John Phillips became the first Mayor of Boston.
26 May	116 people died in a fire at the Gru Church, the largest fire disaster in Norway's history.
16 June	Denmark Vesey led a slave rebellion in South Carolina.
31 July	The last public hanging in Edinburgh.
12 August	St. David's College was founded in modern day University of Wales, Lampeter) Wales by Bishop Thomas Burgess of St. Wales.
07 September	Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
12 October	Pedro-I of Brazil was declared the Constitutional Emperor of Brazil.
19 November	Nearly 200 people died from an earthquake near Valparaiso in Chile, causing a tsunami and extending the coastal region.
01 December	Pedro-I was crowned as the first emperor of Brazil.

Famous birthdays in the year 1822:

Date/Month	Name / Profession / Country
01 July	Nguyễn Đình Chiểu / Poet / Vietnam
02 January	Rudolf Clausius / Mathematician / Germany
03 April	Edward Everett Hale / Historian / United States of America
04 October	Rutherford B. Hayes / Lawyer / United States of America
04 March	Jules Antoine Lissajous / Academic / France
08 December	Jakov Ignjatović / Author / Hungary
08 March	Ignacy Łukasiewicz / Business Man / Poland
08 February	Maxime Du Camp / Journalist / France
09 January	Carol Benesch / Architect / Romania
10 December	César Franck / Composer / Belgium
16 February	Francis Galton / Biologist / United Kingdom
16 March	Rosa Bonheur / Painter / France
18 August	Isaac P. Rodman / Politician / United States of America
24 December	Matthew Arnold / Poet / United Kingdom
26 May	Edmond de Goncourt / Author / France
27 December	Louis Pasteur / Chemist / France
27 April	Ulysses S. Grant / Politician / United States of America
27 December	Louis Pasteur / Scientist / France
29 October	Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski / Cardinal / Poland
31 August	Galusha A. Grow / Politician / United States of America