What happened in 1922

World6

• Jun 29Subhi Barakat becomes president of the Syrian Federation.
• Oct 15T. 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.
• Oct 27Southern Rhodesians reject union with South Africa in a referendum.
• Dec 9Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
• Dec 16Gabriel Narutowicz, sworn on December 11 as first president of the Second Polish Republic, is assassinated by a right-wing sympathizer in Warsaw.
• Dec 27Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned.

North America4

• Feb 6The Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty is signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy. Japan returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.
• May 30In Washington, D.C., United States, the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
• Jun 11Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, is premiered in the U.S.
• Oct 28Rose Bowl sports stadium officially opens in Pasadena, California.

Europe23

• Jan 7Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
• Jan 15Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State.
• Feb 6Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.
• Feb 15The inaugural session of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) is held in The Hague.
• Mar 4The silent horror film Nosferatu is premièred at the Berlin Zoological Garden in Germany.
• Mar 31Six die in the Hinterkaifeck murders north of Munich.
• Apr 10Genoa Conference: The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak in Genoa, Italy about monetary economics, in the wake of World War I.
• Apr 16The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.
• Jun 24Weimar Republic foreign minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated; the murderers are captured on July 17.
• Jun 28The Irish Civil War and Battle of Dublin begin when the Irish National Army, using artillery loaned by the British, begins to bombard the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army forces occupying the Four Courts in Dublin. Fighting in Dublin lasts until July 5.
• Aug 22Irish Civil War: General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
• Sep 3The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, the world's third purpose-built motorsport race track, is officially opened at Monza in the Lombardy Region of Italy.
• Oct 28In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power. Italy begins a period of dictatorship that lasts until the end of the Second World War.
• Nov 24Popular 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.
• Dec 6The 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.

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USSR / Russia5

• Feb 8In the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Cheka becomes the Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (GPU), a section of the NKVD.
• May 18Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, their only joint meeting.
• May 19The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organisation is established.
• Jul 27The Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast is established within the Russian SFSR.
• Dec 30Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Republic (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Middle East6

• Feb 28The 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.
• Mar 15With Egypt having gained self-government from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
• Jun 1Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops, under Enver Pasha.
• Jun 28The Syrian Federation is constituted by arrêté of Henri Gouraud.
• Sep 13The Great Fire of Smyrna destroys most of İzmir. Responsibility is disputed.
• Nov 4Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun: in Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to the pharaonic tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.

Africa2

• Jan 26Italian forces occupy Misrata, Libya; the reconquest of Libya begins.
• Mar 16The Rand Rebellion, which began as a strike by white South African mine workers on 28 December 1921 and became open rebellion against the state, is suppressed.

Oceania1

• Vegemite is invented by Australian entrepreneur Fred Walker.