Year retrospective · 1920s

1922

1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1922nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 922nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 20th…

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Defining events of 1922

  1. 1922 In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.

    Part of the United Kingdom

    Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares an open border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland.

  2. 1922 U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.

    American politician (1857–1933)

    John Benjamin Kendrick was an American politician and cattleman who served as a United States senator from Wyoming and as the ninth governor of Wyoming as a member of the Democratic Party.

  3. 1922 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.

    Treaty re-establishing diplomatic and military relations between Russia and Germany

    The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement signed on 16 April 1922 between Germany and Soviet Russia under which both renounced all territorial and financial claims against each other and opened friendly diplomatic relations. The treaty was negotiated by Russian Foreign Minister Georgi Chicherin and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau. It was a major victory for Russia especially and also Germany, and a major disappointment to France and the United Kingdom.

  4. 1922 The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.

    Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

    The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the world's third-most populous country, the largest by area, and bordered twelve countries. A diverse multinational state, it was organized as a federal union of national republics, with the largest and most populous being the Russian SFSR.

  5. 1922 The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

    Radiotelegraphic communications network within the British Empire in the 20th century

    The Imperial Wireless Chain was a strategic international communications network of powerful long range radiotelegraphy stations, created by the British government to link the countries of the British Empire. The stations exchanged commercial and diplomatic text message traffic transmitted at high speed by Morse code using paper tape machines. Although the idea was conceived prior to World War I, the United Kingdom was the last of the world's great powers to implement an operational system.

  6. 1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

    Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953

    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s.

  7. 1922 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
  8. 1922 Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
  9. 1922 A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.
  10. 1922 Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.

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Died in 1922

Lillian Russell American singer and actress (1860–1922)
Pichichi Spanish footballer (1892–1922)
Lillian Russell American singer and actress (1860–1922)
Pichichi Spanish footballer (1892–1922)
Lillian Russell American singer and actress (1860–1922)
Pichichi Spanish footballer (1892–1922)
Lillian Russell American singer and actress (1860–1922)
Pichichi Spanish footballer (1892–1922)

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