Major Events
- Jan 1 Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25)
- Jan 6 Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
- Jan 7 Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
- Feb 8 King James I disbands the English parliament
- Mar 12 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
- Mar 22 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans around Jamestown, Virginia, 347 killed
- Aug 10 John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges receive a land patent of the Province of Maine.
- Sep 5 Bishop Richelieu appointed Cardinal under French King Louis XIII
- Sep 6 Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
- Oct 18 French King Louis XIII and leader of the Huguenots Duke Henry II of Rohan sign the Treaty of Montpellier ending hostilities
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Who Died in 1622
- Jan 23 William Baffin, English explorer, dies of a gunshot wound at in attack on Qeshm about 38
- Feb 11 Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer (Ferrara School), dies at 64
- Feb 19 Sir Henry Savile, English scholar and educator, translated the New Testament into English, dies at 72
- Mar 5 Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (1592-1622), dies at 52
- Apr 24 Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint, dies at 44
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