1822

Events from the year 1822 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: James Monroe (DR-VA)
* Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-NY)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Philip P. Barbour (DR-VA)
* Congress: 17th
==Events==
* March 30 – The U.S. merges East Florida with part of West Florida to form the Florida Territory.
* July 1 – U.S. House of Representatives elections begin in Louisiana and continue until the last elections are held in North Carolina on August 14, 1823.
* July 2 – Denmark Vesey is hanged for plotting a slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina.
* July 4 – A 24th star is added to the flag of the United States, representing Missouri which had been admitted on August 10, 1821.
* August 22 – The English ship Orion lands at Yerba Buena, modern-day San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson.
* November 9 – Action of 9 November 1822: USS Alligator engages three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba as part of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the U.S.
* November 23 – The USS Alligator wrecks on Carysford Reef off the coast of Florida.
* December 5 – Edward Coles is inaugurated as the second governor of Illinois, Preceding Shadrach Bond.
==Memoriam==
* April 8 – James Long, U.S. Filibuster, founder of the Long Republic: the first "Republic of Texas" (aged 29; Mexico City, Mexico)
* May 6 – Charles Peale Polk, portrait painter (aged 55; Richmond County, VA, USA)
* May 8 – John Stark, major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (aged 93; Manchester, NH, USA)
* July 2 – Denmark Vesey, African American leader, hanged (aged 55; Charleston, SC, USA)
* August 28 – William Logan, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1820 (aged 45; Shelby County, KY, USA)
* October 27 – William Lowndes, U.S. Congress from 1811 to 1822 (aged 40; Atlantic Ocean)
* October 31 – Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (aged 73; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* December 31 – Gideon Granger, politician and lawyer (aged 55; Canandaigua, NY, USA)
==External links==
* 1822 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 5