Important Historical Events of the year 1922, Year 1922 in History
List of 1922 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1922
What happened in the year 1922?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 7, 1922 | Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote. |
| January 11, 1922 | Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin. |
| January 28, 1922 | Knickerbocker Storm: Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes a disaster when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses, killing over 100 people. |
| February 2, 1922 | Ulysses by James Joyce is published. |
| February 6, 1922 | The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy. |
| February 8, 1922 | United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House. |
| February 9, 1922 | Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
| February 27, 1922 | A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett. |
| February 28, 1922 | The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. |
| March 10, 1922 | Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation. |
| March 15, 1922 | After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. |
| March 18, 1922 | In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two. |
| March 20, 1922 | The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. |
| March 26, 1922 | The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland. |
| April 3, 1922 | Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| April 5, 1922 | The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated. |
| April 7, 1922 | Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms. |
| April 15, 1922 | U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. |
| April 16, 1922 | The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed. |
| April 20, 1922 | The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR. |
| April 24, 1922 | The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation. |
| May 10, 1922 | The United States annexes the Kingman Reef. |
| May 19, 1922 | The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established. |
| May 30, 1922 | The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.. |
| June 1, 1922 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded. |
| June 9, 1922 | Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland;[1] today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland. |
| June 16, 1922 | General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority. |
| June 17, 1922 | Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic. |
| June 24, 1922 | The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League. |
| June 28, 1922 | The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. |
| June 29, 1922 | France grants "one square kilometer" at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes". |
| June 30, 1922 | In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic. |
| July 1, 1922 | The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. |
| July 9, 1922 | Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'. |
| July 11, 1922 | The Hollywood Bowl opens. |
| July 15, 1922 | The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan. |
| July 20, 1922 | The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. |
| July 24, 1922 | The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923. |
| August 2, 1922 | A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people. |
| August 22, 1922 | Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War. |
| August 26, 1922 | Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the Great Offensive (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun. |
| August 27, 1922 | Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece. |
| August 30, 1922 | Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence"). |
| September 9, 1922 | The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna. |
| September 11, 1922 | The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia. |
| September 13, 1922 | The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences. |
| September 18, 1922 | The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations. |
| September 27, 1922 | King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II. |
| October 18, 1922 | The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service. |
| October 19, 1922 | British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party. |
| October 27, 1922 | A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. |
| October 28, 1922 | Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government. |
| October 31, 1922 | Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy |
| November 1, 1922 | Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates. |
| November 4, 1922 | In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. |
| November 13, 1922 | The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King. |
| November 14, 1922 | The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom. |
| November 15, 1922 | At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador. |
| November 21, 1922 | Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator. |
| November 24, 1922 | Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. |
| November 26, 1922 | Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. |
| November 26, 1922 | The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.) |
| December 6, 1922 | One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence. |
| December 7, 1922 | The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland. |
| December 8, 1922 | Two days after coming into existence, the Irish Free State executes four leaders of the Irish Republican Army. |
| December 9, 1922 | Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland. |
| December 27, 1922 | Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world. |
| December 30, 1922 | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed. |