Editing 1922 (section)

=== 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.