Editing 1722 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Daniel Defoe]]'s novel ''[[Moll Flanders]]'' is published anonymously in London.
* [[February 10]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Cape Lopez]] begins off of the coast of [[West Africa]] (and present-day [[Gabon]]), as the Royal Navy brings an end to the piracy of [[ Bartholomew Roberts]], nicknamed "Black Bart".  Captained by [[Chaloner Ogle]] of the [[Royal Navy]], [[HMS Swallow (1703)|HMS ''Swallow'']] fires its cannons as Roberts sails his ship ''Royal Fortune'' toward the oncoming ''Swallow'' in order to gain time by forcing ''Swallow'' to turn around.  Standing on the deck, Roberts and two of his crew are killed by the second wave of cannon fire.  The remaining 272 pirate crew are captured.
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Peter the Great]], [[Emperor of All Russia]], announces that his heir to the throne will be his 4-year old grandson, [[Peter II of Russia|Prince Pyotr Alekseivich]].  
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Shah|Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad Shah]], the Grand Mogul of north India's [[Mughal empire]], names [[Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I|Nizam-ul-Mulk]] as his Grand Vizier. Three years later, the Nizam will rebel against the Grand Mogul and create his own independent nation as the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]], reigning as Asaf Jah.
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Battle of Gulnabad]] in [[Persia]]: The [[Pashtun people]] of [[Afghanistan]], led by [[Mahmud Hotak]], decisively defeat forces of the Persian [[Safavid dynasty]], precipitating its fall.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 2]] &ndash; The first [[Silence Dogood]] letter, written by [[Benjamin Franklin]], is printed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0008|title=Silence Dogood, No. 1, 2 April 1722|website=founders.archives.gov}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] ([[Easter Sunday]]) &ndash; Dutch admiral [[Jacob Roggeveen]] lands on what is now [[Easter Island]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Chauvet - Easter Island |url=http://www.chauvet-translation.com/easterisland.htm |access-date=18 October 2012 |publisher=Chauvet-translation.com}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Pennsylvania]] colony enacts a statute, requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy, to pay £5 for each such incoming person.
* [[May 9]] &ndash; The [[1722 British general election]] (began March 19) closes with Prime Minister [[Robert Walpole]]'s Whig Party increasing its majority in the [[House of Commons of Great Britain]], capturing 48 additional seats from the Tory Party and having a 389 to 169 advantage.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; Pirate [[Edward Low]] and his men sail the stolen ship ''Rebecca'' into Port Roseway near modern [[Shelburne, Nova Scotia]], where 13 fishing boats from Massachusetts are anchored. Over the next few days, the pirates board the boats and lay siege to them.  On June 19, Low confiscates the schooner ''Mary'' from its owner, Joseph Dolliber, outfits it with cannons and renames it the ''Fancy''.  Eight of the fishermen are taken hostage as the stolen vessel departs, including [[Philip Ashton]].<ref>George Francis Dow and John Henry Edmonds, ''The Pirates of the New England Coast, 1630-1730'' (Marine Research Society, 1923) pp218-219</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
[[File:Lansereships.jpg|thumb|right|[[July 26]]: Start of the [[Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)|Russo-Persian War]].]]
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Father Rale's War]] (1722–1725) begins along the [[Maine]] and [[Massachusetts]] border.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wicken |first=William Craig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MEQyYggQE8C&pg=PP1 |title=Mi'kmaq treaties on trial : history, land and Donald Marshall Junior |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-1-4426-7021-1 |location=Toronto |pages=71 |language=en |oclc=806068866}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] (July 15 O.S.) &ndash; The [[Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)]] begins with [[Peter the Great]]'s Persian campaign.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Francis Atterbury]], Anglican [[Bishop of Rochester]] and [[Dean of Westminster]], is arrested in his deanery and confined in the [[Tower of London]] for treason, accused of leading the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] "[[Atterbury Plot]]" in support of the [[pretender]] [[James Francis Edward Stuart]]<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=D. W.|last=Hayton|title=Atterbury, Francis (1663–1732)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/871|access-date=2012-11-22|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/871}}</ref> with the aim of overthrowing the [[House of Hanover]] and King [[George I of Great Britain]] and restoring the [[House of Stuart]] by installing  Prince James as "King James III".  
* [[September 6]] &ndash; Wälättä Giyorgis, a 16-year-old who nursed Ethiopia's Emperor [[Bakaffa]] back to health after he fell ill, marries the Emperor and begins her rise to power as the Empress [[Mentewab]]. Upon Bakaffa's death in 1730, Mentewab becomes the regent for her son by Bakaffa, [[Iyasu II]].
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[New Orleans|La Nouvelle-Orléans]] (New Orleans), recently established by France as the capital of the [[French Louisiana|Louisiana Territory]] is hit by what is later called the "Great Hurricane of 1722", starting with  {{convert|7|ft}} high waves, followed by winds in excess of {{convert|100|mph}}. By September 24, "Almost every public building in New Orleans, from the hospital to the cathedral" is "either unroofed or totally ruined."<ref>David Longshore, ''Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones'' (Facts on File, 2008) p293</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 23]] &ndash; The six-month-long [[Siege of Isfahan]] ends, when the [[Safavid dynasty|Safavid]] capital [[Isfahan]] capitulates to the Afghan rebels. Safavid [[Sultan Husayn]] abdicates, and acknowledges [[Mahmud Hotak]] as the new Shah of [[Persia]].
* [[November 15]] (November 4 O.S.) &ndash; Russia's Emperor [[Peter the Great]] issues an order establishing the [[Caspian Flotilla]] during its war against Persia to gain complete control of the landlocked [[Caspian Sea]].
* [[November 20]] &ndash; The [[Dutch East India Company]] cargo ship ''[[Schoonenberg (ship)|Schoonenberg]]'' runs aground in [[South Africa]]'s [[Struisbaai|Struis Bay]] and is looted by most of its 110 crew, beginning a legend and questions of whether the wreck was part of a conspiracy or simply an accident. Almost 300 years later, the event is reconstructed in detail by investigators.
* [[December 20]] &ndash; After the longest reign by a Chinese Emperor in history (61 years), the [[Kangxi Emperor]] dies, and is succeeded by his son Yinzhen as [[Yongzheng Emperor]].

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Edenton, North Carolina|Edenton]] is incorporated as the county seat of [[Chowan County, North Carolina]]. The governor and assembly of [[Province of North Carolina|North Carolina]] move to Edenton, making it the de facto capital of North Carolina until [[1746]], when the government is moved to [[New Bern, North Carolina|New Bern]]. 
* [[Peter the Great]] of Russia creates the ''[[Table of Ranks]]''.
* A small group of Bohemian Brethren (the "Hidden Seed") from northern [[Moravia]] are allowed to settle in a new village, [[Herrnhut]], on the [[Berthelsdorf]] estate of the [[Pietism|pietist]] Count [[Nicolaus Zinzendorf]] in Upper Lusatia ([[Saxony]]), forming the ''Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine'', seed of the [[Moravian Church]]'s renewal.
* The [[Chiesa del Purgatorio, Venafro]], Italy, Catholic Church is built.
* The first public theatre in Denmark, [[Lille Grønnegade Theatre]], is founded in [[Copenhagen]].
* Modern [[music theory]] finds definition in [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]]'s ''[[Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels]]'' (Treatise on Harmony), published in Paris.
* The "[[Brown Bess]]" muzzle-loading smoothbore [[musket]] becomes the [[British Army]]'s standard infantry firearm for land combat for more than a century. 
* [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] composes ''[[The Well-Tempered Clavier]]''.</onlyinclude>