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 English Parliament.
 March 22 – In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Native Americans kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and destroys the Henricus settlement.
 May 13 — the Eendracht, Dutch VOC sailing ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian 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.
 Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys, while carrying copper, silver, gold, tobacco, and indigo. (Wreck discovered 1985).