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Rosetta Stone (photo by Hans Hillewaert)[/caption]
In the year 1822, the first group of freed slaves from the U.S. arrive to the west coast of Africa, founding later that year Monrovia (Jan 7), Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae (Jul 13), Brazil declares its independence from Portugal (Sep 7), Egyptian hieroglyphs are finally deciphered with the help of the Rosetta Stone (Sep 27), Pedro I is crowned as the first Emperor of Brazil (Dec 1) - and all these fine people were born:
1822-0103 William Nylander* botanist/ entomologist - Oulu, GD of Finland (1899/77) 1822-0106 Heinrich Schliemann* businessman/pioneer in archaelogy - Neubukow, German Confederation (1890/68) 1822-0128 Alexander Mackenzie* politician/2nd prime minister of Canada - Logierait, Scotland (1892/70) 1822-0201 1822-0208 Maxime Du Camp* travel writer/ editor/photographer - Paris, France (1894/72) 1822-0210 1822-0213 Betty Linderoth* (b Cedergren) watchmaker/maker of many of the clocks of Sweden’s railway stations - Stockholm, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (1900/78) 1822-0216 Francis Galton* progressive/polymath/inventor - Birmingham, England (1911/88) 1822-0220 1822-0222 Isabella Beecher Hooker* social activist/suffragist leader/daughter of Lyman Beecher - Litchfield, CT USA (1907/84) 1822-0228 1822-03xx Harriet Tubman* (b Araminta Ross) abolitionist - Dorchester County, MD USA (1913/c.90) 1822-0307 Victor Massé* composer - Lorient, Kingdom of France (1884/62) 1822-0307 Cornelius Van Vorst* landowner/Mayor of Jersey City - Jersey City, NJ USA (1906/84) 1822-0316 Rosa Bonheur* painter/sculptor - Bordeaux, France (1899/77) 1822-0319 Ferdinand von Wright* painter - Haminalahti, GD of Finland (1906/84) 1822-0409 Joseph Salter* missionary - St Lukes, Middlesex, England (1899/76) 1822-0426 Frederick Law Olmsted* landscape architect/journalist/social critic - Hartford, CT USA (1903/81) 1822-0427 Ulysses S. Grant* US Army general/18usp - Point Pleasant, OH USA (1885/63) 1822-0518 Mathew Brady* photographer/studied under Samuel Morse - Warren County, NY USA (1896/73) 1822-0520 Frédéric Passy* economist/N - Paris, France (1912/90) 1822-0610 John Jacob Astor III* financier/philanthropist - New York, NY USA (1890/67) 1822-0616 Anton Lilius* priest/statesman - Vesilahti, GD of Finland (1893/71) 1822-0704 Jean-Baptiste Guillaume* sculptor - Montbard, France (1905/82) 1822-0720 Gregor Mendel* scientist - Heinzendorf, Silesia, Austrian Empire (1884/61) 1822-0801 August Törnqvist* banker/statesman - Espoo, GD of Finland (1872/49) 1822-0808 George Stoneman* cavalry officer/politician/Governor of California - Busti, NY USA (1894/72) 1822-0815 Henry James Sumner Maine* comparative jurist/historian - Kelso, Scotland (1888/65) 1822-0827 William Hayden English* politician/ businessman - Lexington, IN USA (1896/73) 1822-09 1822-0917 Cornelius Cole* politician/ the longest-lived U.S. Senator - Lodi, NY USA (1924/102) 1822-0925 Karl Fredrik Öller* bishop/ statesman - Kokkola, GD of Finland (1887/65) 1822-0929 Peter Michal Bohúň* Slovak painter - Veličná, Slovakia (1879/56) 1822-1004 Rutherford B. Hayes* politician/19usp - Delaware, OH USA (1893/70) 1822-1014 Julie Berwald* opera singer - Stockholm, Sweden (1877/54) 1822-11 1822-1114 George David Coulon* French-American painter/to U.S. at age 10 - Seloncourt, Kingdom of France (1904/81) 1822-1122 Nathan Kimball* physician/general in the Union army during the American Civil War/politician - Fredericksburg, IN USA (1898/75) 1822-1130 1822-1210 César Franck* composer/pianist - Liège, Unted Kingdom of the Netherlands (1890/67) 1822-1212 Hermine Küchenmeister-Rudersdorf* Ukrainian composer/writer/mother of Richard Mansfield - Ivanovsky, Russian Empire (1882/59) 1822-1220 1822-1224 Matthew Arnold* poet/cultural critic - Laleham, Middlesex, England (1888/65) 1822-1227 Louis Pasteur* chemist/microbiologist - Dole, France (1895/72) 1822-1228 William Rounseville Alger* Unitarian minister/ hymnist/ abolitionist - Freetown, MA USA (1905/82) 1822-0 1822-0 1822-0 Updated 2025-0421 Helsinki Search for another year here