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| 1822 |
| | | Egyptian hieroglyphs are deciphered by French Egyptologist Jean François Champollion, using the Rosetta stone | |
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| 1822 |
| | | George Canning becomes the British foreign secretary for the second time, in Lord Liverpool's government | |
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| 1822 |
| | | After defeating the Spanish at Pichincha, Antonio José de Sucre enters Quito and liberates Ecuador | |
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| 1822 |
| | | Agustin de Iturbide declares himself emperor of the new nation of Mexico, as Agustin I | |
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| 1822 |
| | | George IV wears a tartan kilt when visiting Edinburgh, and launches a new craze for Highland dress | |
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| 1822 |
| | | Under Joseph Ellis the Star and Garter hotel expands still further to become the fashionable watering place for royalty and literary figures, including later in the century Dickens and Thackeray | |
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| 1822 |
| | | French physicist Augustin Jean Fresnel develops a more efficient form of lens for use in lighthouses | |
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| 1822 |
| | | Mzilikazi, after a quarrel with Shaka, leads the Ndebele people to new territories west of Natal | |
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| 1822 |
| | | Walter Scott begins to transform Abbotsford into a romantic house that he refers to as his 'conundrum castle' | |
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| 1822 |
| | | Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns when sailing in the gulf of Spezia, in northwest Italy, at the age of 29 | |
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