Major Events
- Sep 7 Pedro I, son of King Joao VI declares Brazil's independence from Portugal (National Day)
- Sep 27 French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone
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1822 in Music
- Dec 1 Franz Liszt, aged 11, debuts as a pianist in Vienna
Ignacy Łukasiewicz
Frederick Law Olmsted
Ulysses S. Grant
Gregor Mendel
Charles Crocker
Rutherford B. HayesMore People Born in 1822
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
William HerschelMore 1822 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1822
- Mar 16 Italian opera composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioachino Rossini weds 1st wife, opera singer Isabella Colbran, in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy)
- Jun 29 Nephew of Napoleon, biologist and ornithologist Prince Charles Bonaparte marries cousin Zenaide Bonaparte
- Oct 12 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" author Victor Hugo (20) weds Adele Fourcher
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
James Monroe
Louis XVIII
Robert Jenkinson