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
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