WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1922
Find out what all happened October to December 1922

Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy. (30. October 1922)

Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world. (27. December 1922)

Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates. (1. November 1922)

A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. (27. October 1922)

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister. (29. October 1922)

One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence. (6. December 1922)

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.) (26. November 1922)

Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy. (17. November 1922)

Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. (26. November 1922)

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed. (30. December 1922)

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. (18. October 1922)

Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. (24. November 1922)

March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government. (28. October 1922)

The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom. (14. November 1922)

Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator. (21. November 1922)

British Conservative MPs meeting at the Carlton Club vote to break off the Coalition Government with David Lloyd George of the Liberal Party. (19. October 1922)

In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. (4. November 1922)

Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (15. November 1922)

Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy (31. October 1922)

Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland. (9. December 1922)

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