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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).

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Events of 1622

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1622

January - June

★ 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 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'', Dutch VOC sailing 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 - December

★ July 13/14 - English and Dutch ships defeat Portuguese near Mozambique.

★ October - French ships fight near La Rochelle (details).

★ Dutch ships under Joachim Swartenhondt escorting a convoy repel a Spanish squadron near Gibraltar.

Undated

★ 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).

Births

★ January 15 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)

★ January 28 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)

★ 11 October - Tierck Hiddes de Vries, Frisan 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)
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Deaths

★ 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)

★ December 28 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Tamblot, Filipino rebel

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★ John Welsh of Ayr, Presbyterian leader (b. 1568)
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