In the year 1722, Dutch admiral Jacob Roggeveen lands on Easter Sunday on what is now Easter Island (Apr 5), The “Brown Bess” musket becomes the British Army’s standard infantry firearm for more than a century - and all these fine people were born:

1722-0103 Fredrik Hasselqvist* traveller/ naturalist - Törnevalla, Östergötland, Kingdom of Sweden (1752/30)
1722-0126 Alexander Carlyle* church leader/autobiographer - Cummertrees, Dumfriesshire, Scotland (1805/83)

1722-0207 Azar Bigdeli* Persian anthologist/poet - Isfahan, Safavid Empire (1781/59)

1722-0306 Johann Christian Brand* painter - Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1795/73)

1722-0411 Christopher Smart* poet - Shipbourne, England (1771/49)
1722-0412 Pietro Nardini* Italian violinist/composer - Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1793/71)
1722-0425 Mark Robinson* Royal Navy officer/trainer of Horatio Nelson - England (1799/77)

1722-0511 Petrus Camper* anatomist/ zoologist/anthropologist - Leiden, Dutch Republic (1789/66)

1722-0630 Georg Benda* violinist/ composer/conductor - Old Benatek, Kingdom of Bohemia (1795/73)

1722-0716 Joseph Wilton* sculptor - England (1803/81)
1722-0723 Anne-Catherine de Ligniville* a.k.a. Madame Helvétius/salon holder - Nancy, Kingdom of France (1800/78)
1722-0729 Efraim Otto Runeberg* surveyor/writer - Drottninhgolm, Kingdom of Sweden (1770/47)

1722-0811 Richard Brocklesby* physician - Minehead, Somerset, England (1797/75)

1722-0927 Samuel Adams* politician/ statesman/one of the Founding Fathers of the United States - Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1803/81)

1722-1020 Joachim Edler von Popper* Austrian banker - Březnice, Kingdom of Bohemia (1795/72)
1722-1026 Johan Sederholm* merchant/ shipbuilder/industrialist - Helsinki, Sweden-Finland (1805/82)

1722-1130 Théodore Gardelle* Swiss painter/enameller - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1761/38)

1722-1201 Jean-Pierre de Bougainville* writer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1763/40)
1722-1201 Dunbar Douglas* (b Hamilton) nobleman - Scotland (1799/76)
1722-1201 Susanna Simontytär Erkkilä** (b Kivistö) mother of Maria Erkintytär Mustalampi - Jalasjärvi, Sweden-Finland (1799/76)
1722-1201 Anna Louisa Karsch* German autodidact/poet - Hammer, Silesia (1791/68)
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1722-1228 Eliza Lucas* British-American agronomist/cultivator of indigo as cash crop/to America at age 16  - Antigua, British Leeward Islands (1793/70)

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Updated 19.4.2023-1
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