1622 in England
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 1622 in England: |
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| 1620 | 1621 | 1622 | 1623 | 1624 |
Events from the year 1622 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Events
- 8 February - King James I disbands Parliament.
- 22 March - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and destroys the Henricus settlement.
- William Oughtred invents the slide rule. [1]
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 23 January - William Baffin, explorer (b. 1584)
- 19 February - Sir Henry Savile, educator (b. 1549)
- 1 July - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, politician (b. 1575)
[edit] References
- ^ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
