1822

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, eighteenth President of the United States (d. 1885)
 October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, nineteenth President of the United States (d. 1893)
 December 27 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (died 1895)