WORLD HISTORY · 1922 日本語
Events of 1922Taisho 11 (Japan) · Year of the Dog
What happened in 1922?
In 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty was signed, and in Japan the Suiheisha (National Levelers Association, which fought caste-based discrimination) and the Japanese Communist Party were founded. Abroad, Mussolini's Blackshirts began the March on Rome, and the Ottoman Empire came to an end.
- Washington Naval Treaty signedNorth America
- Suiheisha anti-discrimination movement foundedAsia
- Japan promulgates Health Insurance ActAsia
- Kato Tomosaburo cabinet takes officeAsia
- Japanese Communist Party foundedAsia
- Blackshirts begin March on RomeEurope
- Sultanate abolished, ending the Ottoman EmpireMiddle East
- Entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb discoveredAfrica
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1922 at a glance
| Japanese era | Taisho 11 |
|---|---|
| Chinese zodiac | Year of the Dog |
| Age of people born in 1922 | Turn 104 in 2026 |
| Previous / next year | 1921 (Taisho 10) ／ 1923 (Taisho 12) |
| Events | 74 |
| AP World History | Unit 7 (Global Conflict) |
| AP U.S. History | Period 7 |
Famous people born in 1922
Our birthday pages list 525 people born in 1922. Here are some of them.
- Stan LeeBorn December 28 · turns 104 this year · American comic book writer and editor who co-created Spider-Man, the X-Men, and…
- Betty WhiteBorn January 17 · turns 104 this year · American actress and comedian beloved for The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler M…
- Jack KerouacBorn March 12 · turns 104 this year · American novelist and leading voice of the Beat Generation, best known for the…
- Judy GarlandBorn June 10 · turns 104 this year · American actress and singer who became a star as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, s…
- Norman LearBorn July 27 · turns 104 this year · American television producer and writer who created groundbreaking 1970s sitcom…
- Kurt VonnegutBorn November 11 · turns 104 this year · American novelist whose darkly funny, satirical books include Slaughterhouse-Fi…
- José SaramagoBorn November 16 · turns 104 this year · Portuguese novelist who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote the no…
- Charles M. SchulzBorn November 26 · turns 104 this year · American cartoonist who created Peanuts, the beloved comic strip starring Charl…
- Ava GardnerBorn December 24 · turns 104 this year · American movie star of Hollywood's golden age, known for The Killers, Show Boat…
- Hiroo OnodaBorn March 19 · turns 104 this year
- Shigeru MizukiBorn March 8 · turns 104 this year
- Ernest HollingsBorn January 1 · turns 104 this year
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- Bill TraversBorn January 3 · turns 104 this year
- Anthony SynnotBorn January 5 · turns 104 this year
- Alvin DarkBorn January 7 · turns 104 this year
- Jean-Pierre RampalBorn January 7 · turns 104 this year
- Dale D. MyersBorn January 8 · turns 104 this year
- Ahmed Sékou TouréBorn January 9 · turns 104 this year
- Har Gobind KhoranaBorn January 9 · turns 104 this year
- Billy LiddellBorn January 10 · turns 104 this year
- Tadeusz ŻychiewiczBorn January 12 · turns 104 this year
- Albert LamorisseBorn January 13 · turns 104 this year
- Diana Wellesley, Duchess of WellingtonBorn January 14 · turns 104 this year
- Hank BiasattiBorn January 14 · turns 104 this year
- Eric WillisBorn January 15 · turns 104 this year
- Sylvia LawlerBorn January 15 · turns 104 this year
- Luis EcheverríaBorn January 17 · turns 104 this year
- Nicholas KatzenbachBorn January 17 · turns 104 this year
- Arthur MorrisBorn January 19 · turns 104 this year
- Guy MadisonBorn January 19 · turns 104 this year
- Miguel MuñozBorn January 19 · turns 104 this year
- Don MankiewiczBorn January 20 · turns 104 this year
- Ray AnthonyBorn January 20 · turns 104 this year
- Lincoln AlexanderBorn January 21 · turns 104 this year
- Paul ScofieldBorn January 21 · turns 104 this year
- Predrag VranickiBorn January 21 · turns 104 this year
- Telly SavalasBorn January 21 · turns 104 this year
- Howard MossBorn January 22 · turns 104 this year
- Leon GolubBorn January 23 · turns 104 this year
- Tom LewisBorn January 23 · turns 104 this year
Events of 1922 (timeline · 74)
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The first successful treatment with insulin is given to 14-year-old diabetic Leonard Thompson.
Knickerbocker Storm: Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes a disaster when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses, killing over 100 people.
The uprising called the "pork mutiny" starts in the region between Kuolajärvi and Savukoski in Finland.
The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
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 in Leser v. Garnett.
The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
The McMahon killings take place in Belfast. Six Catholic civilians are shot dead, two others wounded and a female family member assaulted. Police were suspected as being responsible, but no one was prosecuted.
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.
Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
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.
The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.
The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
Seamus Woods and Roger McCorley lead an Irish Republican Army attack on the headquarters of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Belfast.
Åland's Regional Assembly convenes for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.
General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority.
Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
British Army Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is killed by the Irish Republican Army helping to spark the Irish Civil War.
The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
France grants "one square kilometer" at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine is formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
Enver Pasha dies in a skirmish between the Bolshevik Red Army and Basmachi troops, to whom he had defected earlier.
Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.
Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the Great Offensive (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun.
Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence).
The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.
The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.
A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.
Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)
Ireland is partitioned, with Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State coming into existence, one year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.
Two days after coming into existence, the Irish Free State executes four leaders of the Irish Republican Army: Dick Barrett, Joe McKelvey, Liam Mellows and Rory O'Connor.
Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
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FAQ
What year was 1922 in the Japanese calendar?
1922 was Taisho 11 in the Japanese era system.
What Chinese zodiac animal is 1922?
1922 is the Year of the Dog.
How old is someone born in 1922?
They turn 104 on their birthday in 2026.
What happened in 1922?
In 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty was signed, and in Japan the Suiheisha (National Levelers Association, which fought caste-based discrimination) and the Japanese Communist Party were founded. Abroad, Mussolini's Blackshirts began the March on Rome, and the Ottoman Empire came to an end.
Dates and events are based on Wikipedia and other references. Summaries and regions are written by the site editors.