What happened 1722 AD

Daniel Defoe publishes A Journal of the Plague Year, a fictional account of the Great Plague of London in 1665. This novel is often read as non-fiction.

Johann Kuhnau had been Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1701 until his death on 5 June 1722. Bach had visited Leipzig during Kuhnau's tenure: in 1714 he attended the service at the St. Thomas Church on the first Sunday of Advent, and in 1717 he had tested the organ of the Paulinerkirche. In 1716 Bach and Kuhnau had met on the occasion of the testing and inauguration of an organ in Halle.

Leopold Auenbrugger was born in the Duchy of Styria in Austria in 1722.

Cronstedt was born in Turinge, Sweden, and discovered nickel and tungsten.

The composer and violinist Ji Antonn Benda was born in the Czech Republic in 1722.