1622

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years:	1619 1620 1621 - 1622 - 1623 1624 1625

1622 in topic:
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Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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Year 1622 (MDCXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1622

January 1 – In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.
February 8 – King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
March 12 – Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila, Isidore the Farmer and Philip Neri are canonized as saints by Pope Gregory XV.
March 22 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
May 13 — The Eendracht, a VOC ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian soil, is wrecked off the western coast of Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies.
May 25 – The English ship Tryall, which left Plymouth, England for Batavia (now Jakarta), wrecks on the Tryal Rocks, 9 months later (wreck discovered in 1969).

July 13/14 – English and Dutch ships defeat the Portuguese near Mozambique.
Dutch ships under Joachim Swartenhondt, while escorting a convoy, repel a Spanish squadron near Gibraltar.

Étienne Brûlé is the first European to see Lake Superior.
Portugal loses control of the island of Ormus, after 107 years.
Albertus Magnus is beatified, and Teresa of Avila is canonized, by the Roman Catholic Church.
Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys, while carrying copper, 35 tons of silver, 161 pieces of gold, tobacco, and indigo (Wreck discovered 1985).
Philip IV of Spain starts to rule.
War between the Netherlands and Spain recommences after the Twelve Years' Truce (1609-1621).
First record of Bottled Spring Water in UK at Holy Well Spring, Malvern 1622

January 15 – Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
January 28 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
11 October – Tierck Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (d. 1666)
February 23 – Robert Treat, governor of Connecticut colony during 1683-1698 (d. 1710)
February 24 – Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
April 5 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (d. 1703)
May 8 – Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (d. 1698)
May 22 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
October 31 – Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694)
November 8 – King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)

January 23 – William Baffin, English explorer (b. 1584)
February 19 – Sir Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549)
April 24 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Roman Catholic missionary (b. 1577)
May 3 – Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
May 15 – Petrus Plancius, astronomer and cartographer (b. 1552)
May 20 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
July 1 – William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
November 22 – Pierre Biard, French settler, and Jesuit missionary (b. 1567)
December 28 – Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567)
date unknown
- Tamblot, Filipino rebel
- John Welsh of Ayr, Presbyterian leader (b. 1568)