February 10 – 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 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.
May 5 –
Pennsylvania colony enacts a statute, requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy, to pay £5 for each such incoming person.
June 15 – 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.[3]
September 6 – 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 –
La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans), recently established by France as the capital of the
Louisiana Territory is hit by what is later called the "Great Hurricane of 1722", starting with 7 feet (2.1 m) high waves, followed by winds in excess of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). By September 24, "Almost every public building in New Orleans, from the hospital to the cathedral" is "either unroofed or totally ruined."[6]
November 20 – The
Dutch East India Company cargo ship Schoonenberg runs aground in
South Africa's
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.
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
pietist Count
Nicolaus Zinzendorf in Upper Lusatia (
Saxony), forming the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, seed of the
Moravian Church's renewal.
February 10 – 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 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.
May 5 –
Pennsylvania colony enacts a statute, requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy, to pay £5 for each such incoming person.
June 15 – 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.[3]
September 6 – 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 –
La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans), recently established by France as the capital of the
Louisiana Territory is hit by what is later called the "Great Hurricane of 1722", starting with 7 feet (2.1 m) high waves, followed by winds in excess of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). By September 24, "Almost every public building in New Orleans, from the hospital to the cathedral" is "either unroofed or totally ruined."[6]
November 20 – The
Dutch East India Company cargo ship Schoonenberg runs aground in
South Africa's
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.
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
pietist Count
Nicolaus Zinzendorf in Upper Lusatia (
Saxony), forming the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, seed of the
Moravian Church's renewal.