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 [edit] January–June - 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, a VOC 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).
[edit] July–December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] 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)
- November 22 – Pierre Biard, French settler, and Jesuit missionary (b. 1567)
- December 28 – Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567)
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