1622

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  • 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 22 - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Native Americans kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and destroys 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.
  • 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 by the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys, while carrying copper, silver, gold, tobacco, and indigo. (Wreck discovered 1985).

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