1622 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s 1600s 1610s – 1620s – 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years:	1619 1620 1621 – 1622 – 1623 1624 1625

Events

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).