1822 Timeline

1822 Harriet Tubman is born
Harriet Tubman was born Araminta "Minty" Ross to slave parents, Harriet ("Rit") Green and Ben Ross. Rit was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess (and later her son Edward), while Ben was legall...
1822 Jan 12 Étienne Lenoir is born
Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir was a Belgian engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1859. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807, but none were commer...
1822 Feb 9 Jean-Pierre Boyer Invades Dominican Republic and Succeeds in Uniting Island of Hispaniola
After promising protection to several Dominican frontier governors and securing their allegiance, Boyer invaded the Dominican Republic with a force of 50,000 soldiers in February 1822. Th...
1822 Apr 26 Frederick Law Olmsted Is Born
Frederick Law Olmsted, nineteenth-century America's foremost landscape architect, was born on April 26, 1822. Son of a well-to-do Hartford, Connecticut, merchant, Olmsted spent much of hi...
1822 Apr 27 Ulysses S. Grant Is Born
On April 27, 1822, military leader and U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. A quiet, unassuming, and keenly intelligent man, Grant rose to national prominence...
1822 Oct 4 Rutherford B. Hayes Is Born
On October 4, 1822, Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio. A graduate of Kenyon College and Harvard Law School, Hayes entered politics after a successful law career in Cinc...
1822 Dec 24 "The Night Before Christmas" Is Written
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St Nicholas s...
1822 Dec 27 Louis Pasteur Is Born
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dole in the Jura region of France, into the family of a poor tanner. Louis grew up in the town of Arbois. He gained degrees in Letters and ...