1822
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Art and culture
- On Love by Stendhal
- Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy by Théodore Géricault
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, book form
- Trilby by Charles Nodier
- First publication of Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova
- Hieroglyphs are deciphered using the Rosetta Stone.
- Galileo Galilei's Dialogue is taken off the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.
- Paris Salon of 1822
- The dance of life (1822) Rowlandson
- "Le Déménagement de la censure" is a drawing by Eugène Delacroix
- Les diners du baron d'Holbach
- Joseph Niépce's bitumen-based heliography in 1822
- Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims (1822) – Google Books
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Events
- March 31 – Greek War of Independence: Start of Chios massacre, during which 20,000 Greeks on the island of Chios are slaughtered by Ottoman troops and 23,000 exiled.
- July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a "difference engine"
- July 31 – The last public whipping is carried out in Edinburgh.
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Births
- Hervey de Saint-Denys (1822-1892)
- Nikolai Danilewski (1822–1885)
- Virginia Poe (August 22, 1822 – January 30, 1847)
- Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer (1822-1877).
- Mathew Brady (1822–1896), photographer
- Apollonie Sabatier (1822–1889)
- Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884)
- February 8 – Maxime Du Camp (d. 1894)
- March 27 - Henri Murger, French novelist and poet (Scènes de la Vie de Bohème) (d. 1861)
- April 10 – George Lippard, American writer (d. 1854)
- May 26 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
- August 12 – Rodolphe Bresdin, French draughtsman and engraver (1822-1885)
- December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)
- December 27 – Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist (d. 1895)
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Deaths
- June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic author (b. 1776)
- July 8 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
- John "Walking" Stewart (19 February 1747 – 20 February 1822)
- Frederick Goodall (17 September 1822 – 29 July 1904) was an English artist.
- Jean Noël Hallé (2 January 1754 – 11 February 1822)
- Antonio Canova (November 1, 1757 - October 13, 1822)
- Gérard van Spaendonck (1746–1822),
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