Editing 1622 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Hormuz Island|Hormuz]] is [[Capture of Ormuz (1622)|captured]] from the Portuguese, by an Anglo-Persian force.
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mingolsheim|Skirmish at Mingolsheim]]: Protestant forces under [[Ernst von Mansfeld|Mansfeld]] and [[Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach|Georg Friedrich of Baden-Durlach]] defeat the Imperial forces under [[Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly|Tilly]]. The Protestants win, but afterwards Tilly links up with a [[Army of Flanders|Spanish army]] under [[Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1585–1645)|Gonzalo de Córdoba]], greatly increasing his strength.<ref>{{cite book|author1=George Gajecky|author2=Oleksander Baran|title=The Cossacks in the Thirty Years War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBkQAQAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=PP. Basiliani|page=65}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: While waiting for the Protestant forces of [[Christian the Younger of Brunswick]] to join them, [[Ernst von Mansfeld|Mansfeld]] and [[Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach|Georg Friedrich of Baden-Durlach]] split up their forces as a diversion for the Imperial army of [[Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly|Tilly]]. Their plan fails, as Tilly manages to cut off Georg Friedrich at [[Wimpfen]]. At the ensuing [[Battle of Wimpfen]], Georg Friedrich's army is almost completely destroyed.
* [[May 13]] &ndash; The ''[[Eendracht (1615 ship)|Eendracht]]'', a [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian soil, is wrecked off the western coast of [[Ambon Island]], [[Dutch East Indies]].
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Sultan]] [[Osman II]] is strangled by rebelling [[Janissaries]], who revolted when they heard rumours that Osman II was planning to move against them.
* [[May 25]] &ndash; The English ship ''[[Tryall]]'', which left [[Plymouth]], England for Batavia (now [[Jakarta]]), wrecks on the [[Tryal Rocks]], nine months later (the wreck is discovered in [[1969]]).
* [[May]] &ndash; [[Huguenot rebellions]]: The [[Huguenot]] city of [[Royan]] is taken by royal forces, after a [[Siege of Royan|short siege]].
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Huguenot rebellions]]: The [[Huguenot]] city of [[Nègrepelisse]] is taken, after a [[Siege of Nègrepelisse|short siege]] by royal forces. The entire population of the city is subsequently massacred, and the city is burned to the ground.
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: Imperial forces under [[Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly|Tilly]] attempt to prevent [[Christian the Younger of Brunswick]] from moving his army across the [[Main (river)|Main]] River, to link up with [[Ernst von Mansfeld|Mansfeld]]. At the [[Battle of Höchst]], Tilly manages to inflict considerable casualties on the Protestant forces, as well as seizing Brunswick's baggage train. Nonetheless, the bulk of Brunswick's forces manage to unite with Mansfeld.
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Dutch–Portuguese War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Macau]]: The outnumbered Portuguese forces successfully defend [[Macau]] from the Dutch fleet, keeping a Portuguese foothold in the Far East.