Historical Events In 1622
Monday, 20 October 2025
Jan 01 On this day in history isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist
Jan 01 Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25) in the year 1622.
Jan 01 On this day in history papal Chancery adopts January as beginning of the year
Jan 06 On this day in history pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
Jan 07 On this day in history germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
Jan 07 Germany &Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg on this day in history.
Jan 15 On this day in history the birth of Molière, French writer
Jan 20 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns on this day in history.
Jan 23 William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38 in the year 1622.
Feb 08 King James I disbands the English parliament in the year 1622.
Feb 11 In the year 1622 alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64
Feb 13 In the year 1622 adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized
Feb 27 On this day in history rembrandt Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter
Mar 12 On this day in history ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
Mar 22 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain on this day in history.
Mar 22 In the first major massacre of European colonists by Native Americans, Algonquian Indians led by Opechancanough, chief of the Pamunkey, slaughter 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia--nearly a third of the settlement’s total population on this day in history.
Apr 07 Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart in the year 1622.
Apr 17 In the year 1622 henry Vaughan, English poet (Silex Scintillans)
May 15 On this day in history peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69
May 20 In the year 1622 osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies
Jun 06 Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857) in the year 1622.
Aug 10 County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges on this day in history.
Aug 16 In the year 1622 tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
Sep 04 Jacob Hintze, composer on this day in history.
Sep 05 Richelieu becomes cardinal on this day in history.
Sep 06 In the year 1622 spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
Sep 30 Johann Sebastiani, composer on this day in history.
Oct 18 French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier on this day in history.
Nov 08 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War) in the year 1622.
Nov 30 Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized in the year 1622.
Dec 13 In the year 1622 jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50
Dec 16 Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship builder on this day in history.
Dec 28 Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 on this day in history.