Editing 1922 (section)

==Events==

===January===
{{Main|January 1922}}
[[File:Insulincrystals.jpg|thumb|130px|right|[[January 11]]: Use of [[insulin]] for [[diabetes]].]]
* [[January 7]] – [[Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic)|Dáil Éireann]], the parliament of the [[Irish Republic]], ratifies the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] by 64–57 votes.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/491|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/491 491–493]}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[Arthur Griffith]] is elected [[President of Dáil Éireann]], the day after [[Éamon de Valera]] resigns.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Brennan|title=Ireland Standing Firm: My Wartime Mission in Washington; And, Eamon de Valera: a Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O5FnAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=University College Dublin Press|isbn=978-1-900621-68-7|page=xvi}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] – The first successful [[insulin]] treatment of diabetes is made, by [[Frederick Banting]] in Toronto.
* [[January 15]] – [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] becomes [[Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State]].
* [[January 26]] – Italian forces occupy [[Misrata]], [[Italian Libya|Libya]]; the [[Pacification of Libya|reconquest of Libya]] begins.

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1922}}
[[File:SphinxGiza.jpg|thumb|125px|right|[[February 28]]: Egypt independent.]]
* [[February 6]]
** [[Pope Pius XI]] (Achille Ratti) succeeds [[Pope Benedict XV]], to become the 259th [[pope]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard L. Rubenstein|author2=John K. Roth|title=Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfoBx6skMCkC&pg=PA269|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|isbn=978-0-664-22353-3|pages=269}}</ref>
** The [[Washington Naval Treaty|Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty]] is signed between the United States, United Kingdom, [[Empire of Japan|Japan]], [[French Third Republic|France]] and [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]. Japan returns some of its control over the [[Shandong Peninsula]] to China.
* [[February 8]]
** [[President of the United States]] [[Warren G. Harding]] introduces the first radio in the [[White House]].
** In the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]], the [[Cheka]] becomes the [[Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie]] (GPU), a section of the [[NKVD]].
* [[February 10]]–[[February 17|17]] – [[Modern Art Week]] in [[São Paulo]] marks the start of [[Modernism]] in [[Brazil]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Amaral|first1=Aracy|first2=Kim Mrazek|last2=Hastings|year=1995|title=Stages in the Formation of Brazil's Cultural Profile|journal=Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts|volume=21|pages=9–25|doi=10.2307/1504129|jstor=1504129}}</ref>
* [[February 14]]
** Finnish Minister of the Interior [[Heikki Ritavuori]] is assassinated by [[Ernst Tandefelt]].
** ''[[MV Baragoola|Baragoola]]'', the last of the Binngarra class [[Manly ferry services|Manly ferries]], is launched at [[Balmain, New South Wales]].
* [[February 15]] – The inaugural session of the [[Permanent Court of International Justice]] (PCIJ) is held in [[The Hague]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Nagendra Singh|title=The Role and Record of the International Court of Justice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VxkEWTwXFUcC&pg=PA297|date=16 November 1989|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=0-7923-0291-5|pages=297}}</ref>
* [[February 26]] – ''[[Leser v. Garnett]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rebuffs a challenge to the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], which gave women the right to vote on the same terms as men.
* [[February 28]] – The [[Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence]] by the United Kingdom ends its [[protectorate]] over [[Egypt]], and grants the country nominal [[Kingdom of Egypt|independence]], reserving control of military and diplomatic matters.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=King|first=Joan Wucher|title=Historical Dictionary of Egypt|series=Books of Lasting Value|year=1989|orig-date=1984|publisher=American University in Cairo Press|isbn=978-977-424-213-7|pages=259–260}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-first=Albert P.|editor1-last=Blaustein|editor1-link=Albert Blaustein|editor2-first=Jay A.|editor2-last=Sigler|editor3-first=Benjamin R.|editor3-last=Beede|title=Independence Documents of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=feyI5kisdBcC&pg=PA204|volume=1|year=1977|publisher=Oceana Publications|location=Dobbs Ferry, NY|isbn=978-0-379-00794-7|pages=204–205}}</ref>

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1922}}
* [[March 2]]
** An ice mass breaks the [[Oder Dam]] in [[Breslau]].
** The [[Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom)|British Civil Aviation Authority]] is established.
* [[March 4]] – The silent horror film ''[[Nosferatu]]'' is premièred at the Berlin Zoological Garden in Germany.
* [[March 10]] – [[Mahatma Gandhi]] is arrested in [[Bombay]] for [[sedition]].
* [[March 13]] – [[Edward VIII|Edward, Prince of Wales]], inaugurates the [[Rashtriya Indian Military College|Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College]] in [[Dehradun]], India, marking a capitulation of the [[Governor-General of India|Governor General]] and [[Secretary of State for India]] to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]].
* [[March 15]] – With [[Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]] having gained self-government from the United Kingdom, [[Fuad I of Egypt|Fuad I]] becomes [[King of Egypt]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Steinberg | first = S. D. | title = The statesman's year-book: statistical and historical annual of the states of the world for the year 1948 | publisher = Macmillan | location = London | year = 1948 | isbn = 9780230270770 | page=846}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] – The [[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.
* [[March 18]] – In [[British India]], [[Mahatma Gandhi]] is sentenced to six years in prison for [[sedition]] (he serves only two).
* [[March 20]] – The [[USS Langley (CV-1)|USS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United States Navy]] [[aircraft carrier]].
* [[March 22]] – Radio station [[WLW]] in [[Cincinnati]] begins broadcasting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/03/17/tem_wlw_700_turns_80.html|first=John|last=Kiesewetter|title=WLW 700 turns 80|date=2002-03-17|work=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]]|access-date=2012-10-18}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – [[Queensland]], Australia, abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House).
* [[March 26]] – The [[German Social Democratic Party of Poland|German Social Democratic Party]] is founded in Poland.
* [[March 31]] – Six die in the [[Hinterkaifeck]] murders north of [[Munich]].

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1922}}
* [[April 1]] – South African Railways takes control of all railway operations in [[South West Africa]].<ref name="Paxton-Bourne">{{Paxton-Bourne|pages=99, 110, 115–117, 121, 149}}</ref><ref name="SAR Line Dates 188">''Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway'', Statement No. 19, p. 188, ref. no. 200954-13</ref>
* [[April 3]] – [[Joseph Stalin]] is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
* [[April 7]] – [[1922 Picardie mid-air collision]]: The first midair collision between airliners occurs, between a [[Daimler Airway]] [[de Havilland DH.18]] and a [[Grands Express Aériens]] [[Farman F.60|Farman Goliath]] over [[Poix-de-Picardie]], [[Amiens]], France.
* [[April 10]] – [[Genoa Conference]]: The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak in [[Genoa]], [[Italy]] about monetary economics, in the wake of World War I.
* [[April 12]] – The United Kingdom's [[Edward VIII|Prince of Wales]] arrives in Yokohama aboard [[HMS Renown (1916)|HMS ''Renown'']] and rides by train to Tokyo, starting a one-month visit to Japan.<ref name="pofw_visits_japan">{{cite web |date=4 April 1922 |title=Prince's Visit to Japan |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19220404-1.2.8.aspx |access-date=2013-12-28 |publisher=[[The Straits Times]] |via=[[NewspaperSG]]}}</ref><ref name="phillips">{{cite book|last=Phillips|first=Sir Percival|title=The Prince of Wales' Eastern book, a pictorial record of the voyages of H.M.S. "Renown", 1921-1922|publisher=Hodder and Stoughton|location=New York|year=1922|pages=192–193|url=https://archive.org/download/princeofwaleseas00philrich/princeofwaleseas00philrich.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://archive.org/download/princeofwaleseas00philrich/princeofwaleseas00philrich.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live
|access-date=2013-12-28}}</ref>
* [[April 13]] – The State of [[Massachusetts]] opens all public offices to women.
* [[April 16]] – The [[Treaty of Rapallo (1922)|Treaty of Rapallo]] marks a rapprochement between the [[Weimar Republic]] and [[Bolshevik Russia]].
* [[April 24]] – The first portion of the [[Imperial Wireless Chain]], a strategic international [[wireless telegraphy]] network created to link the [[British Empire]], is opened, from the UK to Egypt.

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1922}}
[[File:Lincoln memorial dc 20041011 095847 1.3008x2000.jpg|thumb|200px|[[May 30]]: [[Lincoln Memorial]] dedicated.]]
* [[May 8]] – In [[Moscow]], eight priests, two laymen and one woman are sentenced to death for opposition to the Soviet government's confiscation of church property.
* [[May 18]] – [[Sergei Diaghilev]], [[Igor Stravinsky]], [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Marcel Proust]], [[James Joyce]], [[Erik Satie]] and [[Clive Bell]] dine together at the [[The Peninsula Paris|Hotel Majestic]] in Paris, their only joint meeting.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jackson|first=Kevin|title=Constellation of Genius – 1922: Modernism Year One|location=London|publisher=Hutchinson|year=2012|isbn=978-0-091-93097-4}}</ref>
* [[May 19]] – The [[Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union|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., United States, the [[Lincoln Memorial]] is dedicated.<ref>{{cite book | last = Thomas | first = Christopher | title = The Lincoln Memorial & American life | publisher = Princeton University Press | location = Princeton, N.J | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780691011943 | page=xiii}}</ref>

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1922}}
[[File:AlandsFlag.JPG|thumb|125px|right|[[June 9]]: [[Åland's Autonomy Day]]]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[Bolshevik]] forces defeat [[Basmachi]] troops, under [[Enver Pasha]].
** The first issue of the magazine ''[[Krestyanka (magazine)|Krestyanka]]'' is published in [[Russia]].<ref>krestyanka.ru</ref>
* [[June 9]] – [[Åland]]'s Regional Assembly convenes for its first plenary session in [[Mariehamn]], Åland;<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Ahvenanmaa pähkinänkuoressa| magazine = Ahvenanmaa – ahaa!| date = 2007 | page = 3 | language = fi}}</ref> the day will be celebrated as [[Self-Government Day of Åland]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pohjola-norden.fi/fi/tietoa_pohjoismaista/ahvenanmaa/historiaa_lyhyesti/?id=280 | title = Ahvenanmaan historiaa lyhyesti | work = Pohjola Norden | access-date = December 10, 2020 | language = fi | archive-date = January 29, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160129231821/http://www.pohjola-norden.fi/fi/tietoa_pohjoismaista/ahvenanmaa/historiaa_lyhyesti/?id=280 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
* [[June 11]] – [[Robert J. Flaherty]]'s ''[[Nanook of the North]]'', the first commercially successful feature-length [[documentary film]], is premiered in the U.S.<ref>{{cite book | last = Rotha | first = Paul | title = Robert J. Flaherty, a biography | publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press | location = Philadelphia | year = 1983 | isbn = 9781512818512 }}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – [[President of the United States]] [[Warren G. Harding]] makes his first speech on the radio.
* [[June 22]] – [[Irish Republican Army (1922–69)|Irish Republican Army]] agents assassinate British Army field marshal [[Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet|Sir Henry Wilson]] in London; the assassins are sentenced to death on [[July 18]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=1922-07-19|title=Wilson Assassins Sentenced to Die – Final Judgment Entered 26 Days After Murder of British Field Marshal – Profess Patriotic Motive – Statement Defending Political Assassination, Handed in by Defendants, Is Barred by Cour.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/07/19/archives/wilson-assassins-sentenced-to-die-final-judgment-entered-26-days.html|access-date=2021-05-12|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[June 24]] – [[Weimar Republic]] foreign minister [[Walther Rathenau]] is assassinated; the murderers are captured on [[July 17]].
* [[June 26]] – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince [[Louis II, Prince of Monaco|Louis II]] of [[Monaco]].
* [[June 28]]
** The [[Irish Civil War]] and [[Battle of Dublin]] begin when the Irish [[National Army (Ireland)|National Army]], using [[artillery]] loaned by the British, begins to bombard the [[Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)|anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army]] forces occupying the [[Four Courts]] in [[Dublin]]. Fighting in Dublin lasts until [[July 5]].
** The [[Syrian Federation]] is constituted by arrêté of [[Henri Gouraud (general)|Henri Gouraud]].
* [[June 29]] – [[Subhi Barakat]] becomes president of the [[Syrian Federation]].

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1922}}
* [[July 11]] – The [[Hollywood Bowl]] open-air music venue opens.
* [[July 17]] – The final signings of [[Treaty 11]], an agreement between [[George V]], King of Canada, and various Canadian [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]], are conducted at [[Fort Liard]].
* [[July 20]] – The German protectorate of [[Togoland]] is divided into the [[League of Nations mandate]]s of [[French Togoland]] and [[British Togoland]].
* [[July 27]] – The [[Adyghe Autonomous Oblast|Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast]] is established within the [[Russian SFSR]].
* [[July]] – [[Hyperinflation]] in Germany means that 563 [[German Papiermark|marks]] are now needed to buy a single American [[dollar]] – more than double the 263 needed eight months before, dwarfing the mere 12 needed in [[April]] [[1919]], and even the 47 needed in December of that year.

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1922}}
* [[August 2]] – The [[1922 Swatow typhoon]] hits [[Shantou]], China, killing more than 5,000 people.
* [[August 22]] – [[Irish Civil War]]: General [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] is assassinated in West Cork.
* [[August 23]]
** [[Spanish protectorate in Morocco|Morocco]] revolts against the Spanish.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
* [[August 26]]
** A Turkish large-scale attack opens against Greek forces in Afyon; Turkish victory is achieved on [[August 30]].
* [[August 28]] – [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] agrees to withdraw its troops from [[Siberia]].
* [[August]]
** Hyperinflation in Germany sees the value of the Papiermark against the dollar rise to 1,000.
** The last hunted [[California grizzly bear]] is shot.

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1922}}
* [[September 3]] – The [[Autodromo Nazionale di Monza]], the world's third purpose-built [[motorsport]] [[race track]], is officially opened at [[Monza]] in the [[Lombardy Region]] of [[Italy]].<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=https://www.monzanet.it/en/autodromo/history/|work=Autodromo Nazionale Monza|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011131936/https://www.monzanet.it/en/autodromo/history/|archive-date=2016-10-11}}</ref>
* [[September 9]] – Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter [[İzmir]], effectively ending the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)]].
* [[September 11]]
** ''The Sun News-Pictorial'', a predecessor of the [[Melbourne]], Australia, ''[[Herald Sun]]'', is founded.
** The [[Mandatory Palestine|Mandate of Palestine]] is approved by the Council of the [[League of Nations]].
* [[September 13]] – The [[Gdynia]] Seaport Construction Act is passed by the [[Second Polish Republic|Polish]] Parliament.
* [[September 13]]–[[September 15|15]] – The [[Great Fire of Smyrna]] destroys most of [[İzmir]]. Responsibility is disputed.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Stewart|first=Matthew|url=http://www.historytoday.com/matthew-stewart/catastrophe-smyrna|title=Catastrophe at Smyrna|journal=[[History Today]]|volume=54|issue=7}}</ref>
* [[September 17]] – Dutch cyclist [[Piet Moeskops]] becomes world champion sprinter.
* [[September 18]] – The [[Kingdom of Hungary]] joins the [[League of Nations]].
* [[September 24]] (O. S. September 11) – [[11 September 1922 Revolution]] in [[Greece]].
* [[September 29]] – ''[[Drums in the Night]]'' (''Trommeln in der Nacht'') becomes the first play by [[Bertolt Brecht]] to be staged, at the [[Munich Kammerspiele]].

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1922}}
[[File:Mussd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Benito Mussolini]] and [[Italian Fascism|Fascist]] [[Blackshirts]] during the [[March on Rome]].]]
* [[October]] – 3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar – triple the figure three months ago due to hyperinflation.
* [[October 1]] – [[G. I. Gurdjieff]] opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at [[Fontainebleau]], France.
* [[October 3]] – [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]] becomes the first female U.S. senator when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary appointment pending an election to replace Senator Thomas Watson, who has died suddenly.
* [[October 11]] – [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922]] ends in [[Turkish National Movement|Turkish]] victory.
* [[October 15]] – [[T. S. Eliot]] establishes ''[[The Criterion (magazine)|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]].
* [[October 18]] – The [[British Broadcasting Company]] is formed.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
* [[October 25]] – The [[Third Dáil]] enacts the [[Constitution of the Irish Free State]].
* [[October 27]] – [[Southern Rhodesia]]ns reject union with South Africa in a [[Southern Rhodesia government referendum, 1922|referendum]].
* [[October 28]]
** In 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]].
** The [[Red Army]] occupies [[Vladivostok]].
** [[Rose Bowl (stadium)|Rose Bowl]] sports stadium officially opens in [[Pasadena, California]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=STADIUM DREAM BECOMES FACT|last=Lowry|first=P.|date=22 October 1922|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/1/2/2668978/rose-bowl-game-2012-history-stadium-pasadena-parade|title=Rose Bowl Game History|last=Schexnayder|first=C.J.|date=2 January 2012|website=SBNATION|access-date=2 February 2018}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] – [[Benito Mussolini]], 39, becomes the youngest ever [[Prime Minister of Italy]].

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1922}}
* [[November 1]]
** The [[Ottoman Empire]] is abolished after 600 years, and its last [[sultan]], [[Mehmed VI]], abdicates, leaving for exile, initially in [[Malta]], on November 17.
** A [[broadcast receiving licence]] with a fee of ten [[shilling]]s is introduced in the United Kingdom.
* [[November 4]] – [[Discovery 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]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[November 12]] – [[Sigma Gamma Rho]] (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven 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.
* [[November 14]] – The [[British Broadcasting Company]] (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom, broadcasting from station [[2LO]] in London.
* [[November 15]]
** In the [[1922 United Kingdom general election]] forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] wins an overall majority. [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] for the first time becomes the main opposition party, winning more seats than the divided Liberals. A dining club of newly elected Conservative Members of Parliament evolves the following year into the [[1922 Committee]].
** [[1922 Guayaquil general strike]]: During a 3-day [[strike action]] in the city of [[Guayaquil]], [[Ecuador]], police and military fire into a crowd, killing at least 300.
* [[November 19]] – [[Abdülmecid II]], [[Crown Prince]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], is elected [[Caliph]].
* [[November 21]] – [[Rebecca Felton]] of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] takes the oath of office, formally becoming the first woman [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
* [[November 24]] – Popular author and anti-Treaty [[Irish republicanism|Republican]] [[Erskine Childers (author)|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 (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] in 1920 as a gift.<ref name=WI>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Cottrell|title=The War for Ireland, 1913-1923|location=Oxford|publisher=Osprey Publishing|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84603-9966}}</ref>
[[File:Howard Carter in the King Tutankhamen's tomb.jpg|thumb|115px|right|[[Howard Carter]] in King Tutankhamun's tomb]]
* [[November 26]] – [[Howard Carter]] and [[George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon|Lord Carnarvon]] become the first people to see inside [[KV62]], the tomb of [[Pharaoh]] [[Tutankhamun]], in over 3,000 years.

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1922}}
[[File:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union (1923–1936).svg|thumb|125px|The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created. ([[Coat of arms of the Soviet Union|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.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/> [[George V]] becomes the [[Monarchy in the Irish Free State|Free State's monarch]]. [[Tim Healy (politician)|Tim Healy]] is appointed first [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State]], and [[W. T. Cosgrave]] becomes [[President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State|President of the Executive Council]].
* [[December 9]] – [[Gabriel Narutowicz]] is elected the first president of Poland.
* [[December 11]] – The trial of [[Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters]] ends at the [[Old Bailey]] in London, for the murder of Thompson's husband; both are found guilty and sentenced to hang.
* [[December 16]] – [[Gabriel Narutowicz]], sworn on [[December 11]] as first president of the [[Second Polish Republic]], is assassinated by a right-wing sympathizer in Warsaw.
* [[December 20]] – ''[[Antigone (Cocteau play)|Antigone]]'' by [[Jean Cocteau]] appears on stage in Paris, with settings by [[Pablo Picasso]], music by [[Arthur Honegger]] and costumes by [[Coco Chanel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeancocteau.net/bio1_en.php|title=Jean Cocteau - biography 1889-1922|publisher=Jean Cocteau Committee|access-date=2013-08-07|archive-date=July 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729045309/http://www.jeancocteau.net/bio1_en.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 27]] – [[Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō|Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hōshō'']] becomes the first purpose-designed [[aircraft carrier]] to be [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]].
* [[December 30]] – [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukraine]], [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic|Belarus]] and the [[Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic|Transcaucasian Republic]] ([[Armenia]], [[Azerbaijan]] and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]) [[Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|come together to form]] the [[Soviet Union|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]].
* [[December]] – 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/weimar.htm |title=Weimar Germany 1919-1933|publisher=Historyhome.co.uk|date=2011-01-05|access-date=2012-02-28}}</ref>

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* 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.
* ''Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin'', the Kurdish Independence Committee, is founded.
* The [[Inter-Parliamentary Union]] is established.
* ''[[L'Action sénégalaise]]'' weekly newspaper is founded in [[Senegal]].<ref>Johnson, G. Wesley. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=SuaeAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA245 The Emergence of Black Politics in Senegal: The Struggle for Power in the Four Communes, 1900-1920]''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971. p. 245</ref>
* [[Earl W. Bascom]], rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at [[Lethbridge]], [[Alberta]], Canada.
* ''[[Vegemite]]'' is invented by Australian entrepreneur [[Fred Walker (entrepreneur)|Fred Walker]].
* The [[Barbary lion]] becomes extinct in the wild, with the last killed in [[Spanish protectorate in Morocco|Morocco]], in the area of the Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctm/BarbLion.htm |title=Extinction: Barbary Lion UWSP GEOG358 [Heywood] |publisher=Uwsp.edu |access-date=2012-02-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318022204/http://www4.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctm/BarbLion.htm |archive-date=March 18, 2012 }}</ref>
* The [[Amur tiger]] becomes extinct in [[South Korea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/savethetiger.htm |title=Save the Tiger |publisher=Koreanhistoryproject.org |access-date=2012-02-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311225748/http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/savethetiger.htm |archive-date=March 11, 2012 }}</ref>
* During his [[Simko Shikak revolt (1918-1922)|first rebellion]], [[Simko Shikak]] launched an [[Battle of Savujbulak|attack on Mahabad]] in mid-May and July. In the ensuing fighting, [[Simko Shikak|Simko]]'s forces captured [[Mahabad]] and killed a Persian commander.