1922 - What happened in 1922 ?

January 1922

Saturday 07:

Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.

Tuesday 10:

Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.

Wednesday 11:

First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.

Tuesday 24:

Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.

February 1922

Monday 06:

The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

Wednesday 08:

President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.

Thursday 09:

Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

Monday 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.

Tuesday 28:

The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.

March 1922

Wednesday 15:

After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.

Saturday 18:

In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.

Monday 20:

1922 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

April 1922

Monday 03:

Joseph Stalin succeeds Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.

Friday 07:

Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.

Sunday 16:

The Treaty of Rapallo, in which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations between Berlin and Moscow, is signed.

May 1922

Friday 05:

In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.

Friday 19:

Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.

Tuesday 30:

In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

June 1922

Thursday 01:

Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Monday 12:

the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

Friday 16:

General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin

Thursday 29:

France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".

July 1922

Sunday 09:

Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.

Thursday 20:

The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.

August 1922

Tuesday 22:

Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.

Tuesday 29:

Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna, in Asia Minor.

Wednesday 30:

Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")

September 1922

Saturday 09:

1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks. The largest part of the city of Smyrna (on the Minor Asia coast, now Izmir) is burned. Non-Turkic population flees.

Monday 11:

One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.

Wednesday 13:

The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 136.4 °F (58 °C).

Saturday 23:

Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.

October 1922

Friday 06:

The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul

Saturday 07:

First radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Schenectady) link for World Series.

Wednesday 18:

The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) <!-- Not 'Corporation' yet ! --> is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

Saturday 28:

March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government with the assistance of the Catholic Church; pope Pius XI declares that "Mussolini is a man sent by divine providence."

Tuesday 31:

Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.

November 1922

Wednesday 01:

The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.

Tuesday 14:

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

Wednesday 22:

Egypt. Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opened the tomb of Tutankhamun, a Pharaoh who lived around 3,000 years ago. Many people belive that Tutankhamun was murdered.

Friday 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.

Sunday 26:

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 1922

Wednesday 06:

One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty the Irish Free State comes into existence.

Saturday 16:

Poland's President Gabriel Narutowicz assassinated.

Saturday 30:

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.