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3 unusual facts about 1822


1822 in the United States

July 1 to 3 – US House of Representatives elections begin in Louisiana and continue until the last elections are held in North Carolina on August 14, 1823.

46th New York State Legislature

The opposing Democratic-Republican faction, the "Clintonians" disappeared after DeWitt Clinton decided not to run in the New York gubernatorial election, 1822; and the Federalist Party had virtually disbanded.

47th New York State Legislature

The opposing Democratic-Republican faction, the "Clintonians" had almost disappeared after DeWitt Clinton decided not to run in the New York gubernatorial election, 1822.


August Krönig

August Karl Krönig (20 September 1822 – 5 June 1879) was a German chemist and physicist who published an account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1856, probably after reading a paper by John James Waterston.

Bariadorgia

While Bariadorgia was first mentioned in 1822 growing in the commune of Sartène on Corsica under the synonym Carcajola, ampelographers such as Gustave Foëx of the Viticultural College at the University of Montpellier and colleague of Pierre Viala have speculated since at least the early 20th century that grape was likely introduced from neighboring Sardinia.

Battle of Peta

After the Souliotes defeated the forces of Khourshid Pasha in May and June 1822, they joined Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos who landed at Missolonghi with a contingent of Greek regulars.

Burney Treaty

This followed Dr. John Crawfurd's 1822 mission to the court of King Rama II, the principle objective of which was to determine Siam's position on the Malay states.

Christian Friedrich Tieck

Based on a concept by Schinkel, Tieck created the tomb of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst at Berlin's Invalidenfriedhof in 1822.

Darwin Falls

Darwin Falls, the Darwin Falls Wilderness, the nearby town of Darwin, California, and all other areas named "Darwin" in the vicinity are named after Dr. Darwin French (1822–1902), a local rancher, miner, and explorer.

Dominican War of Independence

Haiti's president, Jean Pierre Boyer, promised his full protection and support to the frontier governors, and thus he ceremoniously entered the country with around 10,000 soldiers in February 1822, after most of the cities and towns proclaimed their allegiance to the Republic of Haiti between November 1821 and January 1822, including Puerto Plata (December 13, 1821) and Santiago (December 29, 1821).

Duke of Braganza

Since the House of Braganza acceded to the throne of Portugal in 1640, the male heir of the Portuguese Crown was known as the Duke of Braganza and Prince of Brazil until 1822, or sometimes also as Prince of Beira.

East Caribbean dollar

In 1822, the British government coined 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 fractional 'Anchor dollars' for use in Mauritius and the British West Indies (but not Jamaica).

Edward Foss

He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1822, was a member of the council of the Camden Society from 1850 to 1853, and from 1865 to 1870, a member of the Royal Society of Literature from 1837, and on the council of the Royal Literary Fund, and until 1839 secretary to the Society of Guardians of Trade.

Fort Amiel Museum

Major Charles Frederick Amiel was born on 2 August 1822, in Hanover Square, London, England.

François Debret

Restoration of several theaters and buildings of the École des beaux-arts (1822-1832), set in the old musée des monuments français, founded in 1795 in the former Couvent des Petits Augustins, and closed by Louis XVIII in 1816.

George Conrad Hutzler Farm

George Conrad Hutzler was born in about 1822 and lived in a small village near Krumbach, Bavaria.

George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester

Olivia Acheson (d. 12 February 1863), daughter of the 1st Earl of Gosford, on 8 October 1822 at London.

George Nayler

A year later, Nayler succeeded Heard as Garter and went on foreign missions to award the Garter to Frederick VI of Denmark in 1822, John VI of Portugal (who created Nayler a Knight Commander of the Order of the Tower and Sword) in 1823, Charles X of France in 1825 and Nicholas I of Russia in 1827.

Henry Hart Milman

In subsequent poetical works he was more successful, notably the Fall of Jerusalem (1820) and The Martyr of Antioch (1822, based on the life of Saint Margaret the Virgin), which was used as the basis for an oratorio by Arthur Sullivan.

History of Lesotho

The present Lesotho (then called Basutoland) emerged as a single polity under paramount chief Moshoeshoe I in 1822.

HMS Partridge

The second Partridge was a 10 gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched at Plymouth Dockyard on 22 March 1822 and stranded aground off the Dutch island of Vlieland on 28 November 1824.

Jahangir Khoja

The agreement was confirmed later by the following Kokand rulers: Narbuta Biy (1770-1798), Alim Khan (1798-1810), Omar Khan (1810-1822), and Muhammad Ali Khan (1822-1842).

James Oliphant

Lt. Col. James Oliphant married firstly, at Pudupattinam, 23 July 1822, to Lucy, daughter of George Maidman.

James Pattison Cockburn

They include A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, with 30 coloured plates, published in 1815; Swiss Scenery, with 62 plates, in 1820; The Route of the Simplon, in 1822; The Valley of Aosta, in 1823 and Pompeii Illustrated, in folio, in 1827.

John Bond Trevor

John Bond Trevor (1822 – 1890) was an American financier and Wall Street pioneer.

José Maria O'Neill

Maria da Glória O'Neill (Lisbon, Mercês, 1 September 1828 - 21 June 1884), married Lisbon, Encarnação, 9 September 1848 her first cousin João de Sampaio de Roure (Hampstead, London, 16 January 1822 - 12 October 1880), son of João Pedro de Roure and wife Maria João O'Neill, and had issue

Karl von Normann-Ehrenfels

After his father's death he succeeded him as master of his estates at Ehrenfels, but in early 1822, along with other philhellenes, he sailed to Greece to assist the Greek rebels in their uprising against the Ottoman Empire.

He served as chief of staff to Alexandros Mavrokordatos in the disastrous Battle of Peta on 16 July 1822, and died of his wounds a few months later at Missolonghi.

Leipziger Straße

Prime minister Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822) had a city palais built here, which from 1848 served as seat of the Prussian Landtag.

Lettre à M. Dacier

While visiting his brother Jacques-Joseph on September 14, 1822, Jean-François Champollion made a crucial breakthrough in understanding the phonetic nature of hieroglyphics, and proclaimed "Je tiens l'affaire!" ("I've got it!") and then fainted dead away.

Lichte Porzellan

On the northern hillside of the Thuringian Highland, close to the Rennsteig, where the early settlements of the Thuringian porcelain manufacturing took its rise, Johann Heinrich Leder established in 1822 a new porcelain manufacturer, today’s Lichte porcelain (GmbH).

Ludwig Worman

Before his death, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress.

Manuel de Odriozola

Shortly thereafter, in 1822, he was ascended to the position of Captain and the following participated in the Zepita Battle.

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour

He was named canon of the cathedral of Nîmes in 1822, became known as a preacher, and contributed to L'Avenir.

Nancy Ward

Nanyehi (Cherokee: ᎾᏅᏰᎯ: "One who goes about"), known in English as Nancy Ward (ca. 1738–1822 or 1824) was a Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, which means that she was allowed to sit in councils and to make decisions, along with the chiefs and other Beloved Women.

Nathaniel Wells

Jackson's Oxford Journal of 11 May 1822 reprinting an article from the Bristol Mercury recorded that: "It was then decided that a party of the cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant Wells, of Piercefield, should form a kind of advance guard, and should precede the main body by about a mile, to prevent the breaking up of the roads." However, the road ran along a steep-sided valley, and his party came under attack from the iron workers who threw down large stones and rocks.

Peter Rouw

The Victoria & Albert Museum holds a medallion in pink wax on black glass made by him of Prince Lucien Bonaparte (1814), the Duke of Wellington (1822) and posthumously in 1814 of Matthew Boulton, the partner of James Watt.

RBH

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), 19th President of the United States of America

Rimsky

Voin Rimsky-Korsakov (1822–1871), Russian navigator, hydrographer, and geographer

Robert Peyton

Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton (1822-1863), U.S. politician, soldier, and lawyer

Robert Seaman

Robert Livingston Seaman (1822 – March 11, 1904) was an American millionaire industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly), whom he married in 1895 in Chicago.

Rukidi IV of Toro

According to oral history, Prince Olimi Kaboyo Kasunsunkwanzi, son of the King of Bunyoro, annexed the southern part of his father's Kingdom in 1822 and founded what is known as Toro today.

Sereno Edwards Dwight

His publications include Life of David Brainerd (1822); Life and Works of Jonathan Edwards (ten volumes, 1830), of whom he was a great-grandson; The Hebrew Wife (1836), an argument against marriage with a deceased wife's sister; and Select Discourses (1851); to which was prefixed a biographical sketch by his brother William Dwight (1795–1865), who was also successively a lawyer and a Congregational preacher.

Sir William Elford, 1st Baronet

His most important picture was 'The White Lady of Avenel,' exhibited in 1822, and now in the possession of his grandson, Colonel Henry Cranstoun Adams of Lion House, Exmouth, and Crapstone, Buckland Monachorum.

Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers

When William Mylne started a new Minute Book in 1822 he used the heading "Engineers' Society" in the reports of each session until 1869, when he changed it to "Smeatonian Society".

Stephen Moore, 2nd Earl Mount Cashell

He died in October 1822, aged 52, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, Stephen.

Thomas Byrne

Thomas Byrne (industrialist), (1822–1884) Irish born engineer for Waring Brothers (railway construction in Luxembourg), co-founder of SA Hauts-Fourneaux de Rodange, mine owner.

Thomas Rodd

Thomas Rodd (1763–1822) was an English bookseller, antiquarian and Hispanist; Rodd purchased some Greek manuscripts for the British Museum (e.g. codices: Minuscule 272, Minuscule 498).

Thomas Sword Good

To the Royal Academy he sent in 1820 'A Scotch Shepherd;' 'in 1821 'Music' and 'A Man with a Hare;' in 1822 (the year in which Wilkie's 'Chelsea Pensioners' was exhibited) 'Two Old Men (still living) who fought at the Battle of Minden,' later in the possession of Frederick Locker-Lampson.

Timeline of Cherokee history

November 8, 1822: The Cherokee band of The Bowl signed the Treaty of San Antonio de Bexar with the Spanish governor of Texas, granting them land.

Valentine Mott

The couple had 9 children: 6 sons, including Alexander Brown Mott (1826-1889), Valentine Mott, Jr. (1822-1854), and Thaddeus P. Mott; and 3 daughters, including Louisa Dunmore Mott, who in 1842 married the surgeon William Holme Van Buren.

Walter Stone

Walter F. Stone (1822–1874), Republican politician and judge in Ohio

William Stanhope Badcock

He was married, in 1822, to Selina, daughter of Sir Henry Harpur Crewe of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.


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