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2022 (MMXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.
The United Nations declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture,[1] International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development,[2] International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development,[3] and the International Year of Glass.[4]
Events
January
- January 1 – The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the largest free trade area in the world, comes into effect for Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.[5]
- January 2
- Abdalla Hamdok resigns as Prime Minister of Sudan amid deadly protests.[6]
- 2022 Kazakh protests start due to high oil prices.[7]
- January 4 – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States—all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—issue a rare joint statement affirming that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."[8]
- January 5 – A nationwide state of emergency is declared in Kazakhstan in response to the 2022 Kazakh protests. The cabinet of prime minister Askar Mamin resigns, while president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev removes former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, widely regarded as being the real power in the country, from his position as Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan.[9][10][11]
- January 6 – The CSTO deploys a peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan, including Russian paratroopers, following a request by Kazakh president Tokayev.[12]
- January 7 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 300 million worldwide.[13]
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 9 – February 6 – 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
- January 24 – 2022 Italian presidential election
- January 30 – 2022 Portuguese legislative election.
- February 4 – February 20 – 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, making it the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.[14]
- February 6 – Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee on this date, marking 70 years on the throne.[15]
- March – Run 3 of CERN's Large Hadron Collider will commence.[16]
- March 9 – 2022 South Korean presidential election
- March 27 – 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
- March 31 – The 2020 World Expo in Dubai will close after a 6-month run; originally scheduled for 10 April 2021 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- April 3 – 2022 Serbian general election
- April 10 – 2022 French presidential election
- May 9 – 2022 Philippine general election[17]
- May 10–14 – Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy.
- May 29 – 2022 Colombian presidential election
- June 15 – Support of Internet Explorer 11 will end for versions of Microsoft Windows 10 without Long-Term Servicing Channel.[18]
- July 4 – If the definitive proposal for a new Constitution still isn't voted before, the Constitutional Convention in Chile will have to vote the draft on this date, and it will be subsequently dissolved, given the one-year deadline established by law.
- July 6 – July 31 – UEFA Women's Euro 2022 in England[19]
- July 7 – July 17 – 2022 World Games
- July 28 – August 8 – 2022 Commonwealth Games[20]
- August 26 – September 15 – ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is scheduled to be launched.[21]
- September 11 – 2022 Swedish general election
- October 2 – 2022 Brazilian general election
- November 8 – The 2022 U.S. elections will select the 118th Congress.[22]
- November 21 – December 18 – 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, to avoid both the summer heat between May and September and clashing with the 2022 Winter Olympics.[23]
- December 15 – Providing a general election is not called beforehand, Leo Varadkar will succeed Micheál Martin as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of the Republic of Ireland, as part of a rotation agreement made in 2020.[24]
Date unknown
- The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will elect a new leadership of the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping Administration.[25]
- The first component of the Lunar Gateway, a proposed inhabitable space station to be implemented by multiple international space agencies in lunar orbit, is set to be delivered by an undetermined commercial launch vehicle.[26]
- Planned launch of the unmanned Euclid spaceprobe to study dark energy.[27]
- Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.[28]
- The 20th SAARC summit is scheduled to be held in Pakistan.
- 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.[29]
- India plans to launch its first crewed space flight by this year.[30]
- Chuuk State will hold an independence referendum in the Federated States of Micronesia.[31]
- The New Horizons probe will complete its study of the Kuiper belt.[32]
- India is expected to surpass China as the most populous country in the world.[32]
- The Indian Space Research Organization plans to launch the Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission sometime this year.[33]
- The first light of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is anticipated to occur in 2022 with full science operations beginning a year later.[34][35][36]
- The 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[37]
- The 2022 Asia Cup is scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka.[38]
- The 2022 Australian federal election is scheduled to take place no later than 21 May 2022.
Deaths
January
- January 2
- Eric Walter Elst, Belgian astronomer (b. 1936)[39]
- Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist and conservationist (b. 1944)[40]
- January 3 – Viktor Saneyev, Soviet and Georgian triple jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1945)[41]
- January 6
- Peter Bogdanovich, American film director (b. 1939)[42]
- F. Sionil José, Filipino writer (b. 1924)[43]
- Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, film director and activist (b. 1927)[44]
References
- ^ "International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture". United Nations. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- ^ "International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development". United Nations. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
- ^ "International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development". United Nations. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
- ^ "International Year of Glass". United Nations. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
- ^ "World's largest free trade deal is under way, but what is RCEP?". South China Morning Post. January 1, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
- ^ Elassar, Alaa; Meilhan, Pierre (January 2, 2022). "Sudan's Prime Minister resigns amid violent anti-coup protests that have left at least 57 people dead". CNN.
- ^ Lillis, Joanna (January 3, 2022). "Kazakhstan: Gas price hike fuels Zhanaozen protests". eurasianet.org. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "'No one can win a nuclear war': Superpowers release rare joint statement". The Sydney Morning Herald. January 4, 2022. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
- ^ Auyezov, Olzhas (January 5, 2022). "Kazakh protesters torch public buildings; emergency declared, Cabinet resigns". Reuters. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
- ^ Satubaldina, Assel; January 2022, Zhanna Shayakhmetova in Nation on 5 (January 5, 2022). "Kazakhstan Declares State of Emergency After Fuel Price Protests". The Astana Times. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1070622365/kazakhstan-is-in-turmoil-after-massive-protests-force-the-government-to-resign?t=1641430408915
- ^ "Russian paratroopers arrive in Kazakhstan as unrest continues". The Guardian. January 6, 2022. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Global Coronavirus Cases Top 300 Million". The New York Times. January 7, 2022. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
- ^ "2022 Olympics - Next Winter Olympic Games | Beijing 2022". International Olympic Committee. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "The heartbreaking reason the Queen doesn't celebrate her accession". The Independent. February 6, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "New schedule for CERN's accelerators and experiments".
- ^ "Philippine presidential election: who's running, who's favorite and what's their China policy?". South China Morning Post. October 9, 2021. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ "Lifecycle FAQ – Internet Explorer and Edge". Retrieved May 20, 2021.
- ^ "UEFA Women's EURO moved to July 2022". UEFA.com. April 23, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "Home of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games". Birmingham 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ Witasse, O.; Altobelli, N.; Andres, R.; Atzei, A.; Boutonnet, A.; Budnik, F.; Dietz, A.; Erd, C.; Evill, R.; Lorente, R.; Munoz, C.; Pinzan, G.; Scharmberg, C.; Suarez, A.; Tanco, I.; Torelli, F.; Torn, B.; Vallat, C.; JUICE Science Working Team (July 2021). JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer): Plans for the cruise phase. Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2021. doi:10.5194/epsc2021-358. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ "How Changes to the 2020 Census Timeline Will Impact Redistricting". Brennan Center for Justice. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "FIFA Executive Committee confirms November/December event period for Qatar 2022". FIFA.com. March 19, 2015. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015.
- ^ Kelly, Fiach. "Martin to step down as taoiseach in December 2022". The Irish Times.
- ^ Ling Li (November 11, 2021). "How Xi Jinping could rule China for life". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 11, 2021.
- ^ "Trump's 2020 budget Will Take US from Moon to Mars, Agency Chief Says". Space.com. March 11, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
- ^ "Euclid Consortium | A space mission to map the Dark Universe". Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022". BBC News. May 30, 2011.
- ^ "Comet Breakup Points to Possible Meteor Shower in 2022". Space.com. May 10, 2006. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ Tomasz Nowakowski (August 20, 2018). "India Aims to Send its First Crewed Mission to Space by 2022". Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ "Chuuk independence referendum postponed until 2022".
- ^ a b "2022 Future Timeline | Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events". www.futuretimeline.net. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ "India's first unmanned space mission scheduled for launch in 2022; Chandrayaan-3 moon mission in advanced stages of realization". Business Insider. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ^ "Vera C. Rubin Observatory". AURA Astronomy. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
- ^ Wu, Katherine J. "For the First Time, a National U.S. Observatory Has Been Named for a Female Astronomer: Vera Rubin". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
- ^ "What Does the Future of Astronomy Hold? We'll Find Out Soon". Discover Magazine. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
- ^ "Could Viktor Orban be voted out of office?".
- ^ "Format, venue of Asia Cup 2022 and 2023 confirmed".
- ^ Belgian astronomer Eric Elst, responsible for the discovery of 3,760 asteroids, dies
- ^ Message of Condolence from H.E Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta following the death of former Head of Public Service Dr Richard Leakey
- ^ Viktor Saneyev, three-time Olympic triple jump champion, dies at 76
- ^ Peter Bogdanovich, Oscar-Nominated Director and Champion of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 82
- ^ National Artist F Sionil Jose dies at 97
- ^ Sir Sidney Poitier dead: Oscar-winning Hollywood star tragically dies as tributes pour in