What is 1622?
{{Year nav|1622}} {{Year in various calendars|1622}} {{Year article header|1622}} == 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 [[British Parliament|English Parliament]]. * [[March 22]] – In the [[Jamestown massacre]], [[Algonquian]] Native Americans kill 347 [[English people|English]] settlers around [[Jamestown, Virginia]] (1/3 of the colony's population) and destroys the [[Henricus]] settlement. * [[May 13]] — the ''[[Eendracht (1615 ship)|Eendracht]]'', [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] sailing ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on [[Australia]]n 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]]. * [[Spain|Spanish]] [[galleon]] ''[[Nuestra Señora de Atocha]]'' sinks off the [[Florida Keys]], while carrying copper, silver, gold, tobacco, and indigo. (Wreck discovered [[1985]]). [[Category:1622| ]]