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1822 Calendar

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•  January 9, 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
•  January 15, 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
•  February 24, 1822 – The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
•  March 30, 1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
•  March 31, 1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
•  May 16, 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
•  July 8, 1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
•  October 12, 1822 – Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil
•  October 19, 1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
•  November 9, 1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.

•  January 25, 1822 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1915)
•  January 28, 1822 – Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
•  January 30, 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
•  March 11, 1822 – Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (d. 1900)
•  April 3, 1822 – Edward Everett Hale, American writer (d. 1909)
•  May 4, 1822 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (d. 1915)
•  July 19, 1822 – Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
•  August 18, 1822 – Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862)
•  December 5, 1822 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president (d. 1907)
•  December 8, 1822 – Jakov Ignjatović, Serbian novelist and prose writer (d. 1889)