1822

1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1822nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 822nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1822, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s  1800s  1810s  – 1820s –  1830s  1840s  1850s
Years:	1819 1820 1821 – 1822 – 1823 1824 1825

1822 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1822 MDCCCXXII
Ab urbe condita	2575
Armenian calendar	1271 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	6572
Balinese saka calendar	1743–1744
Bengali calendar	1229
Berber calendar	2772
British Regnal year	2 Geo. 4 – 3 Geo. 4
Buddhist calendar	2366
Burmese calendar	1184
Byzantine calendar	7330–7331
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4518 or 4458     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4519 or 4459
Coptic calendar	1538–1539
Discordian calendar	2988
Ethiopian calendar	1814–1815
Hebrew calendar	5582–5583
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1878–1879
- Shaka Samvat	1743–1744
- Kali Yuga	4922–4923
Holocene calendar	11822
Igbo calendar	822–823
Iranian calendar	1200–1201
Islamic calendar	1237–1238
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 5 (文政５年)
Javanese calendar	1749–1750
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4155
Minguo calendar	90 before ROC 民前90年
Nanakshahi calendar	354
Thai solar calendar	2364–2365
Tibetan calendar	阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1948 or 1567 or 795     — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1949 or 1568 or 796

Events

• André-Marie Ampère discovered the attraction between current-carrying wires.
• The law of electric current and magnetic field was developed.
• The Sunday Times newspaper is first published in the United Kingdom.

Births

• February 25 – Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, British royal (died 1916)
• April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th American President (died 1885)
• October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th American President (died 1894)
• December 27 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (died 1895)