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

March 22: 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.
• 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 - December

• July 13/14 - English and Dutch ships defeat the Portuguese near Mozambique.
• Dutch ships under Joachim Swartenhondt, while 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).
• Philip IV of Spain starts to rule.
• War between the Netherlands and Spain starts.

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 Category:1622 births.

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)
• date unknown
  • Tamblot, Filipino rebel
  • John Welsh of Ayr, Presbyterian leader (b. 1568)

See also Category:1622 deaths.