1922

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Years:	1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925

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**1922 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1922 MCMXXII
Ab urbe condita	2675
Armenian calendar	1371 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԱ
Chinese calendar	4558/4618-12-4 (辛酉年十二月初四日) — to — 4559/4619-11-14 (壬戌年十一月十四日)
Ethiopian calendar	1914 – 1915
Hebrew calendar	5682 – 5683
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1977 – 1978
- Shaka Samvat	1844 – 1845
- Kali Yuga	5023 – 5024
Iranian calendar	1300 – 1301
Islamic calendar	1341 – 1342
Japanese calendar	Taishō 11 (大正11年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2582 (皇紀2582年)
- Jōmon Era	11922
Thai solar calendar	2465

1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

[edit] Events

[edit] January

January 7 - Dáil Éireann, the extra-legal parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
January 8 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann.
January 11 - First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.
January 12 - British government releases remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of Independence.
January 13 - Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.
January 15 - Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government.
January 22 - Pope Benedict XV dies.
January 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
January 29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved

[edit] February

February 1 - William Desmond Taylor was murdered.
February 2 - Ulysses (novel) by James Joyce is published in Paris on his fortieth birthday by Sylvia Beach.
February 5 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
February 6 - Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV as the 259th pope.
February 6 - Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy
February 8 - President of the United States, Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
February 8 - Cheka becomes GPU, a section of NKVD
February 14 - Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
February 25 - Murderer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine.
February 27 - 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.
February 28 - The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.

[edit] March

March 1 - Ice mass breaks the Oder dam in Breslau
March 1 - The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
March 11 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition
March 15 - Egypt having gained nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
March 18 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition. He would serve only two years.
March 20 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
March 23 - Queensland Abolishes Legislative Council (Upper House).

[edit] April

April 7 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
April 7 - First air collision between Daimler Airways DH 18 and Grands Express Farman Goliat collide over Poix
April 10 - The historic Genoa Conference commences in Genoa. The representatives of 34 countries convened to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
April 13 - State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women
April 16 - The Treaty of Rapallo marks rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevist Russia.

[edit] May

May 5 - In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
May 12 - 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA
May 19 - Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
May 29 - British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley jailed for 7 years for fraud
May 30 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

The Lincoln memorial, dedicated on May 30th

[edit] June

June 1 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
June 1 - Bolshevik forces defeat Asmachi troops under Enver Pasha
June 22 - IRA agents assassinate British field marshal Henry Wilson in Belgravia - assassins are sentenced to death July 18.
June 24 - Assassination of Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau - murderers are captured July 17
June 26 - Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
June 28 - The Irish Civil War begins

[edit] August

August 12 - Death of Arthur Griffith, President of Dáil Éireann
August 22 - Death of General Michael Collins - President of the Irish Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Army, killed in an ambush.
August 23 - Revolt against the Spanish in Morocco
August 28 - Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia

[edit] September

September 9 - Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter Smyrna
September 11 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
September 13 - 15 - Fire, probably started by Turkish troops, destroys most of Smyrna. Death toll estimated 100,000
September 18 - Hungary joins the League of Nations
September 23 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.

[edit] October

October 9 - Sir William Horwood, London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates
October 23 - German army occupies Saxony and crushes Soviet Republic of Saxony
October 25 - The Third Dáil enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
October 28 - In Italy, with the March on Rome, Fascism obtains power and Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister
October 28 - Red Army occupies Vladivostok
October 31 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.

[edit] November

November 1 - Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI Vahdettin abdicates.
November 1 - The broadcasting license fee of ten shillings introduced in the United Kingdom
November 4 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
November 14 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom. 2LO became the first radio station in the United Kingdom.
November 17 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy.
November 19 - Abdul Mejid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire is elected Caliph.
November 21 - Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.
November 24 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
November 26 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

Flag of the Irish Free State, and later the Republic of Ireland after independence from the British

[edit] December

December 5 - British parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new Constitution of the Irish Free State.
December 6 - The Irish Free State officially comes into existence. George V becomes the Free State's monarch. Tim Healy is appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State and W.T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.
December 14 - Assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz, the president of Poland
December 30 - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

[edit] Exact month/day of event unknown

Earl Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
Invention of Vegemite by Australian Fred Walker
Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, founded
Ring Magazine first published
Molly Pitcher Club formed to promote the repeal of prohibition in United States
Raymond Pearl founds Quarterly Review of Biology.
Thompson Webb founds The Webb Schools
Extinction of the Barbary Lion, with the last killed in Morroco, in the area of Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.