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1822




Events:

   * March 30 - Florida becomes a United States territory.
   * May 24 - Battle of Pichincha: Sim�n Bol�var secures the independence of
     Quito.
   * July 8 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the
     United Kingdom.
   * September 7 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal
   * September 16 - George Canning appointed British foreign secretary.
   * October 12 - Pedro I of Brazil declared constitutional emperor of the
     Brazilian Empire
   * October-December - Congress of Verona at which Russia, Austria and
     Prussia approve French intervention in Spain
   * Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-Fran�ois Champollion
     using the Rosetta Stone.
   * Galileo Galilei's Dialogue taken off the Index librorum prohibitorum,
     the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.
   * Ashley's Hundred leave from St. Louis setting off a major increase in
     fur trade.

Births:

   * January 4 - Georg B�chmann, philologist (+ 1884)
   * January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist
   * January 28 - Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada
   * February 16 - Sir Francis Galton, explorer, biologist (+ 1911)
   * April 3 - Edward Everett Hale, writer, (+ 1909)
   * May 26 - Edmond de Goncourt, writer (+ 1896)
   * December 10 - C�sar Franck, composer and organist (+ 1890)
   * Gregor Mendel, geneticist
   * Charles A. Alexander, Victorian architect

Deaths:

   * July 7 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
   * August 12 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign
     secretary, cut his own throat
   * Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler under the Ottoman Empire

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