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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 ).

EVENTS OF 1622

January - June

: Jamestown Massacre .]]

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 .

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 Australia n 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 )

: ''See also .''

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''

--- Tamblot , Filipino rebel

--- John Welsh Of Ayr , Presbyterian leader (b. 1568 )

: ''See also .''