Historical Events In 1622

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) on this day in history.  

Jan 01   Papal Chancery adopts January as beginning of the year on this day in history.  

Jan 06   Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide on this day in history.  

Jan 07   Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg in the year 1622.  

Jan 07   In the year 1622 germany &Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg  

Jan 15   The birth of Molière, French writer on this day in history.  

Jan 20   On this day in history susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns  

Jan 23   William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38 in the year 1622.  

Feb 08   In the year 1622 king James I disbands the English parliament  

Feb 11   Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64 in the year 1622.  

Feb 13   Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized on this day in history.  

Feb 27   In the year 1622 rembrandt Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter  

Mar 12   Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint on this day in history.  

Mar 22   1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain in the year 1622.  

Mar 22   In the year 1622 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  

Apr 07   In the year 1622 louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart  

Apr 17   In the year 1622 henry Vaughan, English poet (Silex Scintillans)  

May 15   Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69 in the year 1622.  

May 20   Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies in the year 1622.  

Jun 06   On this day in history claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857)  

Aug 10   On this day in history county Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges  

Aug 16   Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian in the year 1622.  

Sep 04   Jacob Hintze, composer in the year 1622.  

Sep 05   Richelieu becomes cardinal in the year 1622.  

Sep 06   On this day in history spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die  

Sep 30   Johann Sebastiani, composer on this day in history.  

Oct 18   On this day in history french King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier  

Nov 08   In the year 1622 galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War)  

Nov 30   Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized on this day in history.  

Dec 13   In the year 1622 jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50  

Dec 16   On this day in history kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship builder  

Dec 28   On this day in history francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55  

Jan 01   In the year 1622 birth of isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist  

Jan 15   Molière, French playwright (d. 1673) was born in the year 1622.  

Jan 20   Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns was born in the year 1622.  

Jan 28   Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691) was born in the year 1622.  

Feb 13   Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized was born in the year 1622.  

Feb 24   Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 27   Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter was born in the year 1622.  

Apr 05   Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703) was born in the year 1622.  

Jan 23   In the year 1622 william Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38  

Feb 11   Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

Feb 19   Sir Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549) died on this day in history.  

Mar 05   Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569) died on this day in history.  

Apr 24   On this day in history death of fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577)  

May 03   Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564) died on this day in history.  

May 15   In the year 1622 peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69  

May 20   Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies on this day in history.