1922

Events

February 6 - The Cheka is dissolved.
March 31 - The Hinterkaifeck axe murders take place. The perpetrator is never identified.
April 3 - Joseph Stalin becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Vyacheslav Molotov. Despite this, Vladimir Lenin remains the de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
April 7 - The Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
June 22 - British field marshal Sir Henry Wilson is assassinated in London by the Irish Republican Army.
June 28 - Beginning of the Irish Civil War.
October 27 to 29 - Benito Mussolini and his National Fascist Party march on Rome, taking power in a coup d'état and establishing a fascist dictatorship.
November 11 - The Ottoman Empire collapses. End of the Armenian Genocide.
November 19 - Hiram Wesley Evans succeeds William Joseph Simmons as the national leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Unknown - End of the Red Terror.