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| 1922 |
| | | Egypt becomes an independent kingdom, subject to a British military presence to protect the Suez canal | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British in India as an agitator and is sentenced to six years in prison | |
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| 1922 |
| | | French fashion designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel introduces a very successful perfume, calling it Chanel No. 5 | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Lenin creates a powerful new post for Joseph Stalin, as General Secretary of the Communist Party | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The reputation of UK prime minister Lloyd George suffers severely when he is accused of selling peerages so as to build up a personal political fund | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Lenin has a stroke, removing him for five months from active control of party and state | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Story of Utopias, the first of his many influential works | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Wassily Kandinsky takes up a teaching post at the Bauhaus in Weimar | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Diego Rivera, returning from his study of Italian frescoes, begins the first of his influential murals depicting Mexican history | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Marina Tsvetaeva completes an anti-Soviet cycle of poems, The Encampment of the Swans | |
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| c. 1922 |
| | | Winston Churchill buys Chartwell, a house in Kent that remains his home until his death | |
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| 1922 |
| | | D.H. Lawrence takes a house in Sydney, where he writes the bulk of his novel Kangaroo | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The League of Nations introduces the Nansen Passport for stateless persons | |
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| 1922 |
| | | William Walton and Edith Sitwell give a private performance of their entertainment Façade, setting poems by Sitwell | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Sinclair Lewis creates an archetypal character in George Folanshee Babbitt, a real-estate broker in the midwestern town of Zenith | |
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| 1922 |
| | | British manufacturer Herbert Austin launches Britain's first car for the popular market, the Austin Seven or 'Baby Austin' | |
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| 1922 |
| | | In elections to the Dáil the pro-treaty faction of Collins and Griffith defeats the opposition, led by de Valera | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Germany is the first nation to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Russia | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Linus Pauling, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, begins theoretical work on the nature of the chemical bond | |
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| 1922 |
| | | US golfer Walter Hagen wins the first of his four victories in the British Open | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Bitter war breaks out between factions of the IRA supporting and opposing the Anglo-Irish Treaty | |
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| 1922 |
| | | John Reith becomes general manager of the newly formed British Broadcasting Company | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Boris Pasternak makes his name with his third volume of poems, My Sister Life | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Stalin devises the structure for a new federal state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Thomas Mann publishes a fragment of his Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Broadway show Ziegfeld Follies features an exciting new dance, the Charleston | |
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| 1922 |
| | | John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Irish Free State takes stringent measures against rebel terrorism, making possession even of a pistol a capital offence | |
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| 1922 |
| | | After Michael Collins is killed in an ambush, William Cosgrave and Kevin O'Higgins emerge as leaders of the Irish Free State | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The League of Nations gives France and Britain mandates to govern separate areas of the German colony of Cameroon | |
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| 1922 |
| | | France and Britain are given a League of Nations mandate to govern separate areas of the German colony of Togoland | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is appointed to the Berlin Philharmonic, and spends most of the rest of his life with the orchestra | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Teapot Dome scandal reveals corruption in the administration of US president Warren Harding | |
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| 1922 |
| | | American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections | |
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