Important Historical Events of the year 2022, Year 2022 in History
List of 2022 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 2022
What happened in the year 2022?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 15, 2022 | The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupts, cutting off communications with Tonga and causing a tsunami across the Pacific. |
| January 23, 2022 | Mutinying Burkinabè soldiers led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba depose and detain President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré amid widespread anti-government protests. |
| January 31, 2022 | Sue Gray, a senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, publishes an initial version of her report on the Downing Street Partygate controversy. |
| February 1, 2022 | Five-year-old Moroccan boy Rayan Aourram falls into a 32-meter (105 feet) deep well in Ighran village in Tamorot commune, Chefchaouen Province, Morocco, but dies four days later, before rescue workers reached him. |
| February 21, 2022 | In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations. |
| February 24, 2022 | Days after recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders a full scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| March 15, 2022 | The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse. |
| March 16, 2022 | A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225. |
| March 21, 2022 | China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people. |
| April 7, 2022 | Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice. |
| April 14, 2022 | Russian invasion of Ukraine: The flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva, sinks in disputed circumstances. |
| May 9, 2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. |
| May 10, 2022 | Queen Elizabeth II misses the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years. It was the first time that a new session of Parliament was opened jointly by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge acting as Counsellors of State. |
| May 14, 2022 | Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. |
| May 20, 2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: Russia claims full control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege. |
| May 23, 2022 | Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule. |
| May 24, 2022 | A mass shooting occurs at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children. |
| June 2, 2022 | Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changed the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye." |
| June 15, 2022 | Microsoft retires its ubiquitous Internet Explorer after 26 years in favor of its new browser, Microsoft Edge. |
| June 22, 2022 | An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over 1,000 deaths. |
| June 24, 2022 | In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion is not protected by the U.S. Constitution, overturning the court's prior decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). |
| June 25, 2022 | The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the longest bridge of Bangladesh, Padma Bridge. |
| June 25, 2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: The Battle of Sievierodonetsk ends after weeks of heavy fighting with the Russian capture of the city, leading to the Battle of Lysychansk. |
| June 25, 2022 | Two people are killed and 21 more injured after a gunman opens fire at three sites in Oslo in a suspected Islamist anti-LGBTQ+ attack. |
| July 5, 2022 | British government ministers Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak resign from the second Johnson ministry, beginning the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis. |
| July 6, 2022 | The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in the United States, are heavily damaged in a bombing, and are dismantled later the same day. |
| July 7, 2022 | Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis. |
| July 8, 2022 | Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a speech in Nara. |
| August 8, 2022 | The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a raid on former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.[12] |
| August 14, 2022 | An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens. |
| September 4, 2022 | Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan. |
| September 5, 2022 | Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating Rishi Sunak |
| September 5, 2022 | At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China. |
| September 6, 2022 | Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. |
| September 6, 2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.[11] |
| September 8, 2022 | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom dies at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after a reign lasting over 70 years. Her son Charles, Prince of Wales, becomes King of the United Kingdom, assumed the regnal name Charles III.[11] |
| September 10, 2022 | Death of Queen Elizabeth II: King Charles III is formally proclaimed as monarch at a meeting of the Accession Council in St James's Palace. |
| September 14, 2022 | Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with queues of up to 30 hours stretching for miles along the River Thames.[11] |
| September 19, 2022 | The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London. |
| October 3, 2022 | Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
| October 4, 2022 | Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| October 6, 2022 | Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| October 7, 2022 | 10 people die and 8 are injured in an explosion at petrol station in Creeslough. |
| October 7, 2022 | Ales Bialiatski, along with two organisations; Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| October 10, 2022 | Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. |
| October 20, 2022 | Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party amid the country's political crisis, serving for 45 days before resigning, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister |
| October 23, 2022 | Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term of the paramount leader of China. |
| October 29, 2022 | At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea. |
| October 29, 2022 | At least 100 people are killed and over 300 are injured by a double car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. |
| October 30, 2022 | A pedestrian suspension bridge collapses in the city of Morbi, Gujarat, leading to the deaths of at least 135 people. |
| November 11, 2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.[9] |
| November 16, 2022 | Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program's future missions to the moon. |
| November 19, 2022 | A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| November 20, 2022 | The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament will be held in the Middle East. |
| November 22, 2022 | A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves 7 workers dead, including the shooter, and 4 others injured. |
| November 24, 2022 | Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia. |
| December 16, 2022 | A landslide occurs at a camp at an organic farm near the town of Batang Kali in Selangor, Malaysia, trapping 92 people and killing 31.[13] |
| December 18, 2022 | Argentina win the 2022 FIFA World Cup final, defeating title holders France 4–2 on penalties following a 3–3 draw after extra time. |