1622

1622 (MDCXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1622nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 622nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1622, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1622 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1622 MDCXXII
Ab urbe condita	2375
Armenian calendar	1071 ԹՎ ՌՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	6372
Balinese saka calendar	1543–1544
Bengali calendar	1029
Berber calendar	2572
English Regnal year	19 Ja. 1 – 20 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2166
Burmese calendar	984
Byzantine calendar	7130–7131
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4318 or 4258     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4319 or 4259
Coptic calendar	1338–1339
Discordian calendar	2788
Ethiopian calendar	1614–1615
Hebrew calendar	5382–5383
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1678–1679
- Shaka Samvat	1543–1544
- Kali Yuga	4722–4723
Holocene calendar	11622
Igbo calendar	622–623
Iranian calendar	1000–1001
Islamic calendar	1031–1032
Japanese calendar	Genna 8 (元和８年)
Javanese calendar	1543–1544
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3955
Minguo calendar	290 before ROC 民前290年
Nanakshahi calendar	154
Thai solar calendar	2164–2165
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Bird) 1748 or 1367 or 595     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 1749 or 1368 or 596

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).