WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1922
Find out what all happened April to November 1922

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

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

Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks. (27. August 1922)

Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan. (15. July 1922)

Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations. (18. September 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)

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

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

Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming. (7. April 1922)

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

The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia. (11. September 1922)

In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic. (30. June 1922)

U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. (15. April 1922)

The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR. (20. April 1922)

The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences. (13. September 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)

The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. (1. July 1922)

The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation. (24. April 1922)

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

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