Year by year · 17th century

1622

1622 in world history: 8 events, 8 births, 6 deaths and 3 states founded. 1,077 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 22 March

    Powhatan attack kills 347 Virginia colonists

    Warriors under Opechancanough struck English settlements along the James River, killing about a quarter of the colony's population. The English responded with years of retaliatory war.

    Virginia

  2. 19 September

    Heidelberg Castle surrenders to Tilly's Imperial-Spanish army

    In the Thirty Years' War, Heidelberg Castle surrendered to the Imperial-Spanish army of the Count of Tilly and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, three days after the city, capital of the Palatinate, was stormed.

    Johann Tserclaes, Count of TillyThirty Years' WarPalatinate

  3. 2 November

    Tilly's Imperial-Spanish army captures Mannheim

    In the Thirty Years' War, the Imperial-Spanish army of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, took Mannheim from Protestant troops under the Englishman Sir Horace Vere. Tilly, a Walloon general, commanded the army of the Catholic League.

    Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly

  4. Battle

    Battle of Wimpfen

    The Battle of Wimpfen was fought on 6 May 1622 near Bad Wimpfen on the Neckar, when the army of the Catholic League under Tilly, with Spanish troops under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, defeated Margrave George Frederick of Baden-Durlach.

  5. Siege

    Capture of Hormuz (1622)

    The capture of Hormuz in 1622 was the expulsion of the Portuguese from the island fortress at the entrance of the Persian Gulf by forces of the Safavid Empire with English naval assistance.

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Born in 1622 8

Died in 1622 6

States founded 3

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