1922

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years:	1919 1920 1921 – 1922 – 1923 1924 1925

Events

• February 28 – Egypt becomes an independent country.
• Most of Ireland stopped being part of the United Kingdom.
• Collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
• Tomb of Tutankhamun discovered by Howard Carter
• Archibald Hill, English mathematician, and Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Declaration of the foundation of the Soviet Union.

Births

• February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, American publisher (d. 2012)
• March 1 – Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1995)
• March 12 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
• March 28 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
• April 16 – Kingsley Amis, English writer (d. 1955)
• June 10 – Judy Garland, American actress (d. 1969)
• June 16 – Wayne Mixson, American politician
• July 14 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 1970)
• August 24 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
• September 9 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian entomologist
• November 23 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician
• Rafael Ishkhanyan, Armenian historian (d. 1996)

Deaths

• Pope Benedict XV

New books

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Films released

• Nanook of the North