January
January 11: Use of insulin for diabetes.
January – The year begins with the British Empire at its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four people on earth.
January 7 – Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.[1]
January 8 – The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann.
January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.
January 12 – The British government releases the remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of Independence.
January 13 – The flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.
January 15 – Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government.
January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
January 26 – Italian forces occupy Misrata in Libya. The reconquest of Libya begins.
January 28 – Knickerbocker Storm: Snowfall from the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
January 29 – The union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved.
January 30 – Radio KZKZ-AM, the second radio station in the Philippines, begins broadcasting.
February
February 1: William Desmond Taylor murdered.
February – Ring Magazine is first published.
February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved.
February 2 – Ulysses, by James Joyce, is published in Paris on his 40th birthday by Sylvia Beach.
February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
February 6
Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.
Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and 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 14
Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
Baragoola, last of the Binngarra class Manly ferries, is launched at Balmain, New South Wales.
February 15 – Inaugural session of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).
February 25 – French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine.
February 26 – 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.
February 28 – 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.
February 28: Egypt independent.
March
March 2
An ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau.
The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
March 4 – The movie Nosferatu is released.
March 11 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.
March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army.
March 15 – Egypt having gained self-government from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
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 is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins broadcasting. March 23 – Queensland, Australia abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House).
April
April 3 – Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
April 7
Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
The first midair collision occurs, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France.
April 10 – The historic Genoa Conference commences in Genoa. The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
April 12 – The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales arrives in Yokohama aboard HMS Renown and rides by train to Tokyo, starting a one month visit to Japan. April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
April 16 – The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.
April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.
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 England to Egypt.
May
May 5 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting. May 19 – The 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., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
June
June 1
The Royal Ulster Constabulary is officially founded.
Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops under Enver Pasha.
June 11 – U.S. première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
June 14 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
June 22 – Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British Army field marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London; the assassins are sentenced to death on July 18.
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 of Monaco.
June 28 – The 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.
July
May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated.
July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
July 17 – The final signings of Treaty 11, an agreement between George V, King of Canada, and various Canadian First Nations, are conducted at Fort Liard.
July 20 – The German protectorate of Togoland is divided into the League of Nations mandates of French Togoland and British Togoland.
July 27 – Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast established within the Russian SFSR.
July – Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - almost double the 263 needed eight months before and dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1919 and even the 47 needed in December of that year.
August
August 2 – A typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 5,000 people.
August 22 – Irish Civil War: General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
August 23
Morocco revolts against the Spanish.
The Turkish large-scale attack opened against Greek forces in Afyon. Turkish victory is achieved on August 27.
August 28 – 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.
September
September 9 – Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter İzmir, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22).
September 11
The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia Herald Sun, is founded.
The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the Council of the League of Nations.
September 13 – The Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish Parliament.
September 13–15 – The Great Fire of Smyrna destroys most of İzmir. Responsibility is disputed. September 17 – Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes World Champion Sprinter.
September 18 – The Kingdom of Hungary joins the League of Nations.
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
Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirts during the March on Rome.
October 1 – G. I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau in France.
October 3 – Rebecca L. Felton becomes the first female US senator, when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary appointment, pending an election to replace Senator Thomas Watson, who had died suddenly.
October 18 – The British Broadcasting Company is formed. October 23 – The German army occupies Saxony and crushes the Soviet Republic of Saxony.
October 25 – The Third Dáil enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
October 28
In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power.
The Red Army occupies Vladivostok.
October 30 – Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy at age 39.
October
3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - triple the figure three months ago.
The Russian Civil War ends with the colonies remaining part of Russia.
November
November 1
The Ottoman Empire is abolished after 600 years and its last sultan Mehmed VI, abdicates.
A broadcasting license fee of ten shillings is introduced in the United Kingdom.
November 4 – In Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. 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 United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority. (The 1922 Committee, popularly believed to take its name from this occasion, is not founded until the following year.)
November 17 – Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy.
November 19 – Abdülmecid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph.
November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.
November 24 – Popular 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.
Howard Carter in King Tutankhamen's tomb
November 26 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
December
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created. (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. 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.
December 11 – End of the trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters at the Old Bailey in London for the murder of Thompson's husband; both are found guilty and sentenced to death.
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 by Jean Cocteau appears on stage in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. December 27 – Commissioning of Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned.
December 30 – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was eventually dissolved in 1991.
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
January 11: Use of insulin for diabetes.
January – The year begins with the British Empire at its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four people on earth.
January 7 – Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.[1]
January 8 – The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann.
January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.
January 12 – The British government releases the remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of Independence.
January 13 – The flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.
January 15 – Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government.
January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
January 26 – Italian forces occupy Misrata in Libya. The reconquest of Libya begins.
January 28 – Knickerbocker Storm: Snowfall from the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
January 29 – The union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved.
January 30 – Radio KZKZ-AM, the second radio station in the Philippines, begins broadcasting.
February
February 1: William Desmond Taylor murdered.
February – Ring Magazine is first published.
February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved.
February 2 – Ulysses, by James Joyce, is published in Paris on his 40th birthday by Sylvia Beach.
February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
February 6
Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.
Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and 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 14
Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
Baragoola, last of the Binngarra class Manly ferries, is launched at Balmain, New South Wales.
February 15 – Inaugural session of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).
February 25 – French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine.
February 26 – 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.
February 28 – 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.
February 28: Egypt independent.
March
March 2
An ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau.
The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
March 4 – The movie Nosferatu is released.
March 11 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.
March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army.
March 15 – Egypt having gained self-government from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
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 is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins broadcasting. March 23 – Queensland, Australia abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House).
April
April 3 – Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
April 7
Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
The first midair collision occurs, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France.
April 10 – The historic Genoa Conference commences in Genoa. The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
April 12 – The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales arrives in Yokohama aboard HMS Renown and rides by train to Tokyo, starting a one month visit to Japan. April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
April 16 – The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.
April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.
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 England to Egypt.
May
May 5 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting. May 19 – The 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., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
June
June 1
The Royal Ulster Constabulary is officially founded.
Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops under Enver Pasha.
June 11 – U.S. première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
June 14 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
June 22 – Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British Army field marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London; the assassins are sentenced to death on July 18.
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 of Monaco.
June 28 – The 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.
July
May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated.
July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
July 17 – The final signings of Treaty 11, an agreement between George V, King of Canada, and various Canadian First Nations, are conducted at Fort Liard.
July 20 – The German protectorate of Togoland is divided into the League of Nations mandates of French Togoland and British Togoland.
July 27 – Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast established within the Russian SFSR.
July – Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - almost double the 263 needed eight months before and dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1919 and even the 47 needed in December of that year.
August
August 2 – A typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 5,000 people.
August 22 – Irish Civil War: General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
August 23
Morocco revolts against the Spanish.
The Turkish large-scale attack opened against Greek forces in Afyon. Turkish victory is achieved on August 27.
August 28 – 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.
September
September 9 – Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter İzmir, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22).
September 11
The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia Herald Sun, is founded.
The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the Council of the League of Nations.
September 13 – The Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish Parliament.
September 13–15 – The Great Fire of Smyrna destroys most of İzmir. Responsibility is disputed. September 17 – Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes World Champion Sprinter.
September 18 – The Kingdom of Hungary joins the League of Nations.
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
Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirts during the March on Rome.
October 1 – G. I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau in France.
October 3 – Rebecca L. Felton becomes the first female US senator, when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary appointment, pending an election to replace Senator Thomas Watson, who had died suddenly.
October 18 – The British Broadcasting Company is formed. October 23 – The German army occupies Saxony and crushes the Soviet Republic of Saxony.
October 25 – The Third Dáil enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
October 28
In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power.
The Red Army occupies Vladivostok.
October 30 – Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy at age 39.
October
3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - triple the figure three months ago.
The Russian Civil War ends with the colonies remaining part of Russia.
November
November 1
The Ottoman Empire is abolished after 600 years and its last sultan Mehmed VI, abdicates.
A broadcasting license fee of ten shillings is introduced in the United Kingdom.
November 4 – In Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. 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 United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority. (The 1922 Committee, popularly believed to take its name from this occasion, is not founded until the following year.)
November 17 – Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy.
November 19 – Abdülmecid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph.
November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.
November 24 – Popular 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.
Howard Carter in King Tutankhamen's tomb
November 26 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
December
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created. (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. 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.
December 11 – End of the trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters at the Old Bailey in London for the murder of Thompson's husband; both are found guilty and sentenced to death.
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 by Jean Cocteau appears on stage in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. December 27 – Commissioning of Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned.
December 30 – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was eventually dissolved in 1991.
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