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next turn year 1922 [im gonna switch to one year per turn up to 1929]

events

January[edit] Main article: January 1922

January 11: Use of insulin for diabetes.

January – The year begins with the British Empire at its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four people on Earth.

January 8 – The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.

January 9 – Julieta founds the Chilean Communist Party.

January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann.

January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.

January 13 – The flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.

January 15 – Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government.

January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.

January 28 – Knickerbocker Storm: Snowfall from the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.

January 29 – The union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved.

February[edit] Main article: February 1922

February 1: William Desmond Taylor murdered.

February 2: Publication of Ulysses.

February – Ring Magazine is first published.

February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved.

February 2 – Ulysses, by James Joyce, is published in Paris on his 40th 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, to become the 259th pope.

February 8

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

February 14

Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.

Baragoola, the last of the Binngarra class Manly ferries, is launched at Balmain, New South Wales.

February 15 – The inaugural session of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) is held.

February 25 – French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine.

February 26 – Leser v. Garnett: The Supreme Court of the United States rebuffs a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.

February 28 – The Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by the United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt, and grants the country nominal independence, reserving control of military and diplomatic matters.[2][3][4]

March[edit] Main article: March 1922 March 2 An ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau.

The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.

March 4 – The movie Nosferatu is released.

March 10 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.

March 10–14 – The Rand Rebellion, a strike by white South African mine workers, begins on 28 December 1921, and becomes open rebellion against the state.

March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India, to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army.

March 15 – Egypt having gained self-government from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.

March 18 – In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).

March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins broadcasting.[5]

March 23 – Queensland, Australia abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House).

March 31 – The Hinterkaifeck Murders occur in Germany, on a late evening.

April[edit] Main article: April 1922 April 1 – South African Railways takes control of all railway operations in South West Africa.[6][7]

April 7 Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.

The first midair collision occurs, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France.

April 10 – Genoa Conference: The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak in Genoa, Italy about monetary economics, in the wake of World War I.

April 12 – The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales arrives in Yokohama aboard HMS Renown and rides by train to Tokyo, starting a one-month visit to Japan.[8][9]

April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.

April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.

April 24 – The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy network created to link the British Empire, is opened, from England to Egypt.

May[edit] Main article: May 1922 May 3 – Viktor Kingissepp, leader of the underground Estonian Communist Party, is executed in Estonia.

May 5 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.

May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.

May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.[10]

May 19 – The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organisation is established.

May 29 – British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud.

May 30 – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

June[edit] Main article: June 1922

February 28: Egypt independent. June 1 The Royal Ulster Constabulary is officially founded.

June 11 – Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, premières in the U.S.

June 14 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio. June 22

Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British Army field marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London; the assassins are sentenced to death on July 18.

June 26 – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco. June 28

July[edit] Main article: July 1922

May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated.

July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.

August[edit] Main article: August 1922 August 2 – A typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 5,000 people.

August 23 Morocco revolts against the Spanish.

September[edit] Main article: September 1922 September 3 – The Autodromo Nazionale Monza, the world's third purpose-built motorsport race track, is officially opened at Monza in the Lombardy Region of Italy.[citation needed]

September 9 – Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter İzmir, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22).

September 11 The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun, is founded. The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the Council of the League of Nations.

September 13 – The Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish Parliament.

September 13–15 – The Great Fire of Smyrna destroys most of İzmir. Responsibility is disputed.[11]

September 17 – Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champion sprinter.

September 24 (O. S. September 11) — 11 September 1922 Revolution in Greece.

September 29 – Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged, at the Munich Kammerspiele.

October[edit] Main article: October 1922

Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirts during the March on Rome.

October 1 – G. I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France.

October 3 – Rebecca L. Felton becomes the first female U.S. senator, when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary appointment, pending an election to replace Senator Thomas Watson, who had died suddenly.

October 15 – T. S. Eliot establishes The Criterion magazine, containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land. This first appears in the United States later this month in The Dial (dated November 1), and is first published complete with notes in book form, by Boni and Liveright in New York in December.

October 18 – The British Broadcasting Company is formed.[2]

October 25 – The Third Dáil enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State.

October 26 – Hogarth Press publishes the Virginia Woolf novel Jacob's Room.

October 27 – Southern Rhodesians reject union with South Africa in a referendum.

October 28 In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power. Italy begins a dark period of dictatorship that lasts until the end of the Second World War, but at the same time becomes the predominant power in the Mediterranean.

Rose Bowl Stadium officially opened in Pasadena, California[12][13] October 31 – Benito Mussolini, 39, becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy. October

The Russian Civil War ends, with the colonies remaining part of Russia. November[edit]

Main article: November 1922 November 1

A broadcasting license fee of ten shillings is introduced in the United Kingdom.

November 4 – In Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb, in the Valley of the Kings.[1]

November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis.

November 14 – The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom, broadcasting from station 2LO in London.

November 15 In the 1922 United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority. Labour for the first time becomes the main opposition party, winning more seats than the divided Liberals. A dining club of newly-elected Conservative Members of Parliament evolves the following year into the 1922 Committee.

1922 Guayaquil general strike: During a 3-day strike action in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fire into a crowd, killing at least 300.

November 19– Abdülmecid 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 anti-Treaty Republican Erskine Childers is executed by firing squad in Dublin, after conviction by an Irish Free State military court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him by Michael Collins in 1920 as a gift.[14]

November 26 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to see inside KV62, the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, in over 3,000 years.

December[edit] Main article: December 1922

December 5 – The 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.[1] 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 9 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.

December 11 – The trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters ends at the Old Bailey in London, for the murder of Thompson's husband; both are found guilty and sentenced to death.

December 20 – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on stage in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel.[15]

December 27 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned.