1622 in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – James I
• Secretary of State – Robert Naunton
• Secretary of State – George Calvert
• Lord Keeper – John Williams
• Lord High Admiral of England – George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham

  Events

• 6 January – the Banqueting House, Whitehall, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones.
• 7 January – John Pym arrested for criticizing the King in Parliament.
• 8 February – King James I disbands Parliament.
• 22 February – a patent is granted for Dud Dudley's process for smelting iron ore with coke.
• 22 March – in the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia and destroy the Henricus settlement.
• 22 April – Capture of Ormuz from the Portuguese by an Anglo-Persian force.
• 23 May – Nathaniel Butter begins publication in London of Newes from Most Parts of Christendom or Weekly News from Italy, Germany, Hungaria, Bohemia, the Palatinate, France and the Low Countries, one of the first regular English language newspapers.
• 25 May – the East India Company ship Tryall sinks when it hits the Tryal Rocks reef off Australia. 94 out of the 143 crew die.
• William Oughtred invents the slide rule.
• Boston Manor house is built in London by Mary Goldsmith.
• First record of bottled spring water in England at Holy Well, Malvern.

  Literature

• Francis Bacon publishes his History of the Reign of King Henry VII
• William Burton's Description of Leicester Shire published.
• Second part of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion published.
• Sir Richard Hawkins' narrative of his adventures Voiage into the South Sea published.

  Births

• 3 January – Sir Humphrey Winch, 1st Baronet, MP
• 13 January – Thomas Dolman, politician
• 28 January – Richard Verney, 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke
• 4 March – Thomas Fox, lawyer and politician
• 23 April – Sir Arthur Onslow, 1st Baronet, politician
• 1 May – Sir Henry Goring, 2nd Baronet, politician
• 8 May – Capel Luckyn, MP
• 16 May – Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon, courtier and royal mistress
• 11 June – Samuel Fortrey, author
• 23 June – Sir Richard Cust, 1st Baronet, politician
• 24 June – Charles Worsley, soldier and politician
• 14 July – Sir William Armine, 2nd Baronet, politician
• 28 July – George Montagu, politician
• 19 August – James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, politician
• 13 October – Sir Ralph Delaval, 1st Baronet, politician
• 29 December – Thomas Herle, politician
• Daniel Axtell, soldier of the English Civil War
• Thomas Baines, physician
• Robert Holmes, admiral

  Deaths

• 23 January – William Baffin, explorer
• 31 January – Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
• 19 February – Sir Henry Savile, scholar, mathematician, Bible translator, MP and benefactor
• 5 March – Christopher Jones, ship's captain, master of the Mayflower
• 17 April – Richard Hawkins, seaman
• 1 July – William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, politician
• October – Sir George Buck, antiquary, historian and MP
• William Leighton, composer