This Year in History:
1822
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War leader and 18th president of the United States, is born on April 27, 1822. The son of a tanner, Grant showed little enthusiasm for joining his father’s business, so the elder Grant enrolled his son at West Point in 1839. Though Grant later admitted in his memoirs he had no […]
On September 30, 1822, Joseph Marion Hernández becomes the first Hispanic to be elected to the United States Congress. Born a Spanish citizen, Hernández would die in Cuba, but in between he became the first Hispanic American to serve at the highest levels of any of three branches of the American federal government. Hernández belonged […]
