In the year AD 1622...

• The Thirty Years War enters its fifth year.
• The Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Seņora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys during a hurricane. Its cargo of copper, silver, gold, and emeralds remain lost until the wreck is rediscovered by Mel Fisher in 1985.

These people were born in 1622...

• French actor and playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Moličre.

These people died in 1622...

• Ottoman sultan Osman II, strangled by rebelling Janissaries, succeeded by his uncle, Mustafa I.

1621 - 1622 - 1623

17th century

How they were made

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