1922: Encyclopedia II - 1922 - Events

1922 - Events

• 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 24 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
• January 29 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved
• February 1 - William Desmond Taylor, Hollywood director, is shot in his home
• 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 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
• 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's head is chopped off 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.
• 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.
• 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 ja 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.
• 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.
• June 1 - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
• June 1 - Bolshevik forces defeat Asmachi troops under Enver Pasha
• June 22 - IRA rebels assassinated 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• September 23 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
• 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 Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

• 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 and allied Soviet republics form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

1922 - Exact month/day of event unknown

• 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

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