WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1922
Find out what all happened May to December 1922

The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna. (9. September 1922)

In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation. (7. September 1922)

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

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

The United States annex the Kingman Reef. (10. May 1922)

One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded. (11. September 1922)

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

The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923. (24. July 1922)

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

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

The Hollywood Bowl opens. (11. July 1922)

The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. (20. July 1922)

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

The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. (28. June 1922)

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

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

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)

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