What important event happened in 1922?

Answer 1

Dáil Éireann, the 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 - The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made.
• January 12 - The British government releases the remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of Independence.
• 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 26 - Italian forces occupy Misrata in Libya. The reconquest of Libya begins.
• January 29 - The union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved.

FebruaryFebruary 1: William Desmond Taylor murdered.

• February - Ring Magazine is first published.
• 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 as the 259th pope.
  • 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.
  • In the Soviet Russia, the Cheka becomes the GPU, a section of the NKVD.
• February 14 - Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
• February 14 Baragoola, last of the Binngarra style Manly ferries, is launched at Balmain
• February 15 - Inaugural session of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).
• February 22 - Following intense nationalist agitation after World War I, Great Britain proclaims Egypt formally independent but continues to occupy the country militarily and control its politics.
• 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 ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

February 28: Egypt independent. March

• March 1
  • An ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau.
  • The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
• March 2 - Radio station WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio begins broadcasting.
• March 4 - The movie Nosferatu was released.
• March 11 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.
• March 13 - Prince of Wales Edward inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the British Empire to growing pressure for the Indianization of the Officer Cadre of the British Indian Army.
• 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 6 years in prison for sedition (he serves only 2 years).
• March 20 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
• March 23 - Queensland, Australia abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House).

April

• April 3 - Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
• 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 Compagnie des Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France.
• April 10 - The historic Genoa Conference commences in Genoa. The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
• April 13 - The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
• April 15 - The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales visits the Japanese paramilitary youth group Seinendan in annexed Korea.
• April 16 - The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.
• April 22 - The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.

May

• May 5 - In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
• May 11 - Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
• May 12 - A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
• May 18 - Sergei Diaghilev, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.
• 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.

May 30: The Lincoln memorial dedicated. June

• June 1
  • The Royal Ulster Constabulary is officially founded.
  • Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops under Enver Pasha.
• June 11 - U.S. première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
• June 14 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
• June 22 - Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British field marshal Henry Hughes Wilson in Belgravia; the assassins are sentenced to death July 18.
• June 24 - Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau is assassinated; the 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.

July

• July 11 - The Hollywood Bowl opens.

Undated

• Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - almost double the 263 needed eight months ago and dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1929 and even the 47 needed in December of that year.

August

• August 2 - A typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 50,000 people.
• August 22 - General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
• August 23
  • Morocco revolts against the Spanish.
  • The Turkish large-scale attack opened against Greek forces in Afyon.
• August 28 - Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia.

Undated

• Hyperinflation in Germany has seen the value of the Papiermark against the dollar rise to 1,000.

September

• September 9 - Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter İzmir.
• 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.
  • The highest temperature in recorded history is taken in at 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), in El Aziziyah, Libya in the shade.
• September 13 - 15 - Fire, probably started by greek troops, destroys most of Smyrna
• September 17 - Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes World Champion Sprinter.
• September 18 - Hungary joins the League of Nations.
• September 29 - Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged, at the Munich Kammerspiele.

OctoberBenito 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 in France.
• October 9 - Sir William Horwood, London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner, is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates.
• October 18 - The British Broadcasting Company is formed.
• October 23 - The German army occupies Saxony and crushes the 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.
  • The Red Army occupies Vladivostok.
• October 30 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.

Undated

• 3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - triple the figure three months ago.

November

• November 1
  • The Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI Vahdettin abdicates.
  • A broadcasting licence fee of 10 shillings is introduced in the United Kingdom.
• November 4 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• November 12 - Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by 7 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, Indiana.
• November 14 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom. 2LO becomes the first radio station in the United Kingdom.
• November 15 - In the United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority. (The 1922 Committee, popularly believed to take its name from this occasion, is not founded until the following year.)
• 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 Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.

DecemberThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created. (Coat of arms until 1936).

• 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. 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 11 - End of the trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson at the Old Bailey. Both found guilty and sentenced to death.
• December 16 - Gabriel Narutowicz, president of Poland, is assassinated.
• December 30 - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Undated

• The year ends with hyperinflation showing no sign of slowing down in Germany, with 7,000 marks now needed to buy a single American dollar.[1]

Date unknown

• Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta Canada.
• Inter-Parliamentary Union
• Vegemite is invented by Australian Fred Walker.
• Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, is founded.
• The Molly Pitcher Club is formed to promote the repeal of prohibition in the United States.
• Thompson Webb founds the Webb School for Boys.
• The Barbary Lion becomes extinct in the wild, with the last killed in Morocco, in the area of the Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.[2]
• The Amur Tiger becomes extinct in South Korea.[3]
• The California grizzly bear becomes extinct.
• Japan signs a naval arms limitation treaty with the Western powers and returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.
• Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years.
• Bronisław Malinowski's influential ethnological text Argonauts of the Western Pacific is published.
• Following the annexation of former German colonies after the First World War, the British Empire reaches its height and largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four humans.

Answer 2

Benito Mussolini came to power, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated, King Tut's tomb was entered, the Ottoman Empire ended, the US gets its first female Senator and the Eskimo Pie is patented.