1822 in the United States explained

Events from the year 1822 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: James Monroe (DR-Virginia)
• Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York)
• Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Philip P. Barbour (DR-Virginia)
• Congress: 17th

Events

• March 30  - The U.S. merges East Florida with part of West Florida to form the Florida Territory.
• July 1 - 3  - 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: 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.^[1]
• December 5  - Edward Coles is sworn in as the second governor of Illinois, replacing Shadrach Bond.

Undated

• Ashley's Hundred leave from St. Louis, setting off a major increase in fur trade.
• A committee is formed to collect remains from the remote location where the Battle of Minisink had been fought in 1779.
• The last major outbreak of yellow fever in New York City occurs.
• Gist Mansion is built in Wellsburg, West Virginia (used some 100 years later for the Brooke Hills Spooktacular).

Ongoing

• Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825)

Births

• February 4  - Edward Fitzgerald Beale, U.S. Navy lieutenant and explorer (died 1893)
• February 13  - James B. Beck, Scottish-born U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (died 1890)
• c. March  - Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War (died 1913)
• March 12  - Thomas Buchanan Read, poet and portrait painter (died 1872)
• March 16  - John Pope, career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War (died 1892)
• April 3  - Edward Everett Hale, writer (died 1909)
• April 26  - Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (died 1903)
• April 27  - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877 (died 1885)
• May 18  - Mathew B. Brady, pioneer photographer (died 1896)
• June 10  -
  • John Jacob Astor III, businessman (died 1890)
  • Lydia White Shattuck, botanist (died 1889)
• July 21  - Alexander H. Jones, Congressional Representative from North Carolina. (died 1901)
• July 25  - Andrew Bryson, admiral (died 1892)
• August 15
  • James E. Bailey, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881 (died 1885)
  • Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1847)
• August 27  - William Hayden English, politician (died 1896)
• September 11  - Francis S. Thayer, merchant and politician (died 1880)
• September 16  - Charles Crocker, financiers (died 1888)
• September 17  - Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (died 1924)
• September 19  - Joseph R. West, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1871 to 1877 (died 1898)
• September 20  - Elizabeth Smith Miller, women's rights campaigner (died 1911)
• October 4  - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (died 1893)
• Undated  - Red Cloud (Maȟpíya Lúta), Oglala Lakota chief (died 1909)

Deaths

• April 8  - James Long, U.S. Filibuster, founder of the Long Republic - the first "Republic of Texas". Shot by a prison guard in Mexico City, Mexico (born 1793).
• May 6  - Charles Peale Polk, portrait painter (born 1767)
• May 8  - John Stark, major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (born 1728)
• July 2  - Denmark Vesey, African American leader, hanged (born c.1767)
• August 28  - William Logan, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1820 (born 1776)
• October 31  - Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (born 1749)

See also

• Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)

Notes and References

1. Book: Barnette, Michael C.. Michael C. Barnette. Florida's Shipwrecks. 2008. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-5413-6.