Editing 1722 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 2]] &ndash; The first [[Silence Dogood]] letter, written by [[Benjamin Franklin]], is printed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0008|title=Silence Dogood, No. 1, 2 April 1722|website=founders.archives.gov}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] ([[Easter Sunday]]) &ndash; Dutch admiral [[Jacob Roggeveen]] lands on what is now [[Easter Island]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Chauvet - Easter Island |url=http://www.chauvet-translation.com/easterisland.htm |access-date=18 October 2012 |publisher=Chauvet-translation.com}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Pennsylvania]] colony enacts a statute, requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy, to pay £5 for each such incoming person.
* [[May 9]] &ndash; The [[1722 British general election]] (began March 19) closes with Prime Minister [[Robert Walpole]]'s Whig Party increasing its majority in the [[House of Commons of Great Britain]], capturing 48 additional seats from the Tory Party and having a 389 to 169 advantage.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; Pirate [[Edward Low]] and his men sail the stolen ship ''Rebecca'' into Port Roseway near modern [[Shelburne, Nova Scotia]], where 13 fishing boats from Massachusetts are anchored. Over the next few days, the pirates board the boats and lay siege to them.  On June 19, Low confiscates the schooner ''Mary'' from its owner, Joseph Dolliber, outfits it with cannons and renames it the ''Fancy''.  Eight of the fishermen are taken hostage as the stolen vessel departs, including [[Philip Ashton]].<ref>George Francis Dow and John Henry Edmonds, ''The Pirates of the New England Coast, 1630-1730'' (Marine Research Society, 1923) pp218-219</ref>