and Alexis Noutsos are executed by Odysseas Androutsos' forces. May 26 – Grue Church fire: 116 people are killed, in the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history. June 6 – Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads the way to William Beaumont's studies on digestion. June 18 – Greek War of Independence: Konstantinos Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy's flagship at Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha. July–September July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a difference engine, a forerunner of the modern computer, for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions. Construction of an operational version will proceed under British Government sponsorship (1823–32), but it will never be completed. July 8 – The Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. July 13 – Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae. July 26 – Guayaquil Conference: José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar. July 27 – Guayaquil Conference: Simón Bolívar and General José de San Martín meet in Guayaquil, which Bolívar later annexes. July 31 – The last public whipping is carried out in Edinburgh. August 5–13 – An 1822 earthquake sequence occurs in the northern part of the Ottoman Empire, causing severe damage from Gaziantep to Antakya in modern Turkey and from Aleppo to Khan Sheikhun in modern Syria. At least 20–30,000 people are killed. August 12 – St David's College (the modern-day University of Wales, Lampeter) is founded in Wales by Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's. August 15–29 – The Visit of King George IV to Scotland takes place. August 22 – English ship Orion lands at Yerba Buena, now named San Francisco, under the command of William A. Richardson. September 7 – Brazilian independence: Brazil declares its independence from Portugal. September 8–13 – Battle of Nauplia: In a series of naval engagements, the Ottoman Fleet fails to break through the Greek Fleet, under Admiral Andreas Vokos Miaoulis. September 11 – Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632) is permitted by the Roman Catholic Church to be published. September 16 George Canning is appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Constituent Congress of Peru begins its first session. September 22 – Portugal approves its first Constitution. September 27 – Jean-François Champollion announces his success in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, using the