1622

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

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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).

[edit] 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, 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 13/14 - English and Dutch ships defeat Portuguese near Mozambique.
Dutch ships under Joachim Swartenhondt 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 Netherlands and Spain starts.