Editing 2022

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== Events ==
* January 6 - Kazakh Security Council Chairman [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] declares a state of emergency after riots break out across Kazakhstan. He is subsequently forced to resign from his post.
* January 7 - [[Gregory and Travis McMichael]] and [[William Bryan]] are sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
*January 15 - [[Malik Akram]] takes four congregants hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, triggering an eleven hour standoff until an FBI team storms the synagogue and kills him. 
*January 20 - A car bombing at a prison in al-Hasakah, Syria, triggers a riot and mass escape involving hundreds of [[The Islamic State | Islamic State]] detainees. Fighting begins as they attempt to gain control of the city and take 23 hostages. 
*January 22 - The "[[Freedom Convoy]]" sparks massive [[Anti-vaxxers|anti-vaxxer]] protests in Canada that quickly spread to the rest of the world.
*January 26 - Syrian and American forces suppress the Islamic State uprising in al-Hasakah.
*February 3 - [[The Islamic State|ISIL]] Caliph [[Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi]] is killed during a U.S. counterterrorism operation in Atme near the Syrian-Turkish border.
*February 9 - [[Ian Stewart]] is convicted of the murder of Diane Stewart. He later receives a sentence of life without parole.
*February 13 - [[Paul Robson]] escapes from HMP North Sea Camp and stays on the run for four days before being recaptured.
*February 14 - [[Quintez Brown]], a Black Lives Matter activist attempts to assassinate Louisville mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg.
*February 17 - A group armed with axes and torches attacks machines and vehicles at a Coastal GasLink Pipeline construction site near Houston, British Columbia, with workers still on site(none are injured). They escape from RCMP officers by setting booby traps on the road leading to the site, injuring one, and disappear into the woods. No group has claimed responsibility, but the attack is not believed to be linked to protests against the pipeline and has been condemned by Wet'suet'en tribal leaders.
*February 18 - [[Kimberly Potter]] is sentenced to two years imprisonment for the manslaughter of Daunte Wright the previous year.
*February 8 - [[Raymond Donini]] announces his plan of mass murder via his plans in South-Africa. 
*February 21 - Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] signs a decree declaring the [[Luhansk People's Republic]] and [[Donetsk People's Republic]] as independent from Ukraine. The action is condemned by the United Nations, as a number of countries prepare to implement economic sanctions against Russia.
*February 24 - Russian troops launch an [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|invasion of Ukraine]] under [[Vladimir Putin|Vladimir Putin's]] orders.
*March - [[Bucha Massacre]]: Russian military forces slaughter civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, with an estimated 412 people being killed. Evidence of numerous [[war crimes]], such as [[torture]], [[rape]], [[arson]], and summary executions surfaces in the following weeks.
*March 1 - [[Alexander Lukashenko]] pledges the support of Belarus to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
*March 10 - [[Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi]] is named the new Caliph of [[the Islamic State]].
*March 13 - [[Northeast Cartel]] leader [[Juan Gerardo Treviño]] is arrested in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Despite efforts by cartel gunmen to rescue him, he is extradited to the United States on the 15th.
*March 26 - [[Jayana Tanae Webb]] is arrested for killing two state troopers and a pedestrian.
*April 12 - [[Frank R. James|2022 New York City Subway attack]]
*April 26 - [[Ruslan Akhtyamov]] shoots up the Veshkayma Kindergarten killing 5 including himself
*May 5 - [[Gene Leroy Hart]] (who died in 1979) is identified as the perpetrator of the long-unsolved Oklahoma Girl Scout murders. Hart had previously been charged with the murders but had been acquitted due to a lack of evidence.
*May 14 - [[Payton Gendron]] kills 10 people and injures 3 in a racially motivated [[mass shooting]] at Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
*May 15 -  [[David Chou|Laguna Woods church shooting]]
*May 24 - Robb Elementary School shooting: 18-year old [[Salvador Ramos]] shoots up Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, leaving 22 dead  (nineteen students and two teachers) and 18 injured (including his grandmother) before being shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent.
*May 25 - [[Josh Duggar]] is sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison for [[child pornography]].
*June 1 - [[Amber Heard]] loses the [[defamation]] trial against her ex-husband Johnny Depp.
*June 1 - [[Michael Louis|Warren Clinic shooting]]
*June 30 - [[Bongbong Marcos]] takes office as President of the Philippines, succeeding [[Rodrigo Duterte]].
*June 30 - [[Alex Lo]] kills Aqua Chow over a couple dispute.
*July 4 - [[Robert Crimo|Highland Park parade shooting]]
*July 8 - Former Japanese Prime Minister [[Shinzo Abe]] is assassinated in Nara, Japan by [[Tetsuya Yamagami]].
*July 15 - [[Rafael Caro Quintero]] is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena. Despite having previously been convicted of the crime, his conviction had been overturned due to being tried in the wrong court.
*July 17 - [[Jonathan Sapirman|Greenwood Park Mall shooting]]
*July 31 - [[Al-Qaeda]] leader [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]] is killed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.
*August - The [[Zama Zama]] break through South African borders and start breaking in and stealing from the gold mines. 8 women are [[rape]]d over 13 times by 7 Zama Zamas. Multiple police officers get assaulted, and homes get broken into. The [[Witpoortjie Movement]] harasses the assistant mayor and mayor of Roodepoort and terrorizes people they believe to be Zama Zamas. 
*August 12 - Islamic extremist [[Hadi Matar]] non-fatally stabs author Salman Rushdie at a literary festival in New York, on the anniversary of a ''fatwa'' declared against Rushdie by [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] over his book ''The Satanic Verses''.
*August 23 - [[Kelly Goodlett]] pleads guilty to helping to falsify a no-knock warrant which lead to the killing of Breonna Taylor in 2020.
*September 2 - [[Fernando Sabag]] attempts to assassinate Cristina Kirchner
*September 18 - [[Shannon Brandt|Killing of Cayler Ellingson]].
*September 26 - The Nord Stream gas pipeline between Russia and Europe is bombed by unknown saboteurs, rendering three of the four pipes inoperable. Russia is widely blamed but is never definitively linked to the attack. 
*October 1 - [[Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster]]: Around 3000 Arema F.C. fans invade the pitch of Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, Indonesia after Arema F.C. lost to Persebaya Surabaya, resulting in at least 131 deaths and at least 547 non-fatal injuries.
*October 5 - The body of Debbie Griggs, whose husband [[Andrew Griggs|Andrew]] was convicted of her murder in 2019, is found buried on a property owned by Andrew. 
*October 6 - Nong Bua Lamphu attack: 34-year old former police officer [[Panya Kamrab]] shoots up a local children's nursery, leaving 39 dead and 10 injured before killing himself.
*October 8 - The Kerch bridge between Russia and Occupied Crimea is bombed, killing three. 
*October 8 - [[Frank Gilliard Allison]] and [[William Joseph Hale]] get into a road rage argument and tries to kill each other's daughter.
*October 11 - [[Christian Brueckner]], prime suspect in the alleged 2007 murder of Madeline McCann, is charged with five counts of rape.
*October 24 - [[Orlando Harris|Central Visual and Performing Arts High School shooting]]
*October 30 - [[Andrew Leak]] petrol-bombs an immigration centre in Dover, England, before taking his own life.
*October 31 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly wins election over [[Jair Bolsonaro]], making him the first President of Brazil to be elected three times.
*November 2 - [[Nikolas Cruz]], perpetrator of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, is sentenced to 34 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, one each for the total number of victims murdered and wounded during the shooting.
*November 13 - A bombing at Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey kills at least 8 people and injures at least 81. [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]] member Alham Albashir was arrested and is the current suspect, although the PKK denies responsibility.
*November 17 - [[Igor Strelkov]], [[Sergey Dubinskiy]] and [[Leonid Kharchenko]] are convicted ''in absentia'' of shooting down Malaysian Airline Flight MH17 in 2014, killing 298 people.
*November 19 to 20 - [[Anderson Lee Aldrich|Colorado Springs nightclub shooting]]
*November 22 - [[Andre Marcus Bing|2022 Chesapeake shooting]]
*November 24 - End of the [[2020 Malaysian political crisis]].
*November 28 - Payton Gendron pleads guilty to multiple charges relating to the Buffalo shooting earlier in the year.
*December 23 - [[Charles Sobhraj]] is released from prison.
*December 29 - [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is elected Prime Minister of Israel for the third time.
*December 30 - [[Andrew Tate]] and his brother [[Tristan Tate]] are arrested in Romania for [[human trafficking]] and [[money laundering]].

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
*January 1 - [[Calisto Tanzi]]
*January 5 - [[Lowell Amos]]
*January 10 - [[Robert Durst]]
*January 15 - [[Malik Akram]] 
*January 16 - [[Jeremy Sivits]]
*January 20 - [[Russell Bishop]]
*January 24 - [[Lashawn McNeil]]
*January 29 - [[Simon Lokodo]]
*February 3 - [[Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi]]
*February 19 - [[Jean-Luc Brunel]]
*March 29 - [[Diaa Hamarsheh]]
*April 8 - [[Aravindan Balakrishnan]]
*April 21 - [[Carl Wayne Buntion]]
*April 26 - [[Ruslan Akhtyamov]]
*May 24 - [[Salvador Ramos]]
*June 1 - [[Michael Louis]]
*June 8 - [[Frank Atwood]]
*June 24 - [[Ian Simms]]
*July 8 - [[José Eduardo dos Santos]], [[Shinzo Abe]] & [[Luis Echeverría]]
*July 14 - [[Francisco Morales Bermúdez]]
*July 17 - [[Jonathan Sapirman]]
*July 26 - [[Tomohiro Kato]]
*July 31 - [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]]
*August 4 - [[Olga Kachura]]
*August 5 - [[Tayseer al-Jabari]]
*September 15 - [[Nathan Larson]]
*September 24 - [[Hudson Austin]]
*October 6 - [[Panya Kamrab]]
*October 8 - [[Peter Tobin]]
*October 24 - [[Orlando Harris]]
*November 2 - [[Farouk Salameh]]
*November 22 - [[Andre Marcus Bing]]
*November 24 - [[Issei Sagawa]]
*November 30 - [[Jiang Zemin]]
*December 15 - [[Juozas Jermalavicius]]
*December 16 - [[Jose Maria Sison]]

=== Victim deaths ===
*January 12 - Ashling Murphy
*January 14 - Kristal Bayron-Nieves
*January 15 - Freda Walker
*January 21 - Jason Rivera
*January 23 - Lauren Malt
*January 25 - Wilbert Mora
*January 27 - Benjamin Pardun
*February 7 - Dimzordimma
*February 12 - Hugo Torres Jiménez
*March 29 - Dimitri Mitrik, Victor Sorokopot, and Amir Khoury
*May 11 - Shireen Abu Akleh
*May 14- Victims of the [[Payton Gendron|Buffalo Shooting]]:
**Roberta Drury
**Margus Morrison
**Andre Mackniel
**Aaron Salter Jr.
**Celestine Chaney
**Geraldine Talley
**Heyward Patterson
**Katherine Massey
**Pearl Young
**Ruth Whitfield
*May 15 - [[David Chou|Dr. John Cheng]]
*May 24 - Victims of the [[Salvador Ramos|Robb Elementary School shooting]]: 
**Uziyah Garcia,
**Xavier Javier Lopez,
**Jose Flores,
**Miranda Mathis,
**Eva Mireles,
**Ellie Garcia,
**Tess Marie Mata,
**Eliahana "Elijah" Cruz Torres,
**Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez,
**Irma Garcia,
**Nevaeh Bravo,
**Makenna Elrod,
**Maite Yuleana Rodriguez,
**Alithia Ramirez,
**Jayce Carmelo Luevanos,
**Jailah Nicole Silguero,
**Rogelio Torres,
**Alexandria "Lexi" Aniyah Rubio,
**Amerie Jo Garza,
**Jackie Cazares,
**Layla Salazar
*May 29 - Sidhu Moosewala
*June 1 - Victims of the [[Michael Louis|Warren Clinic shooting]]: 
**Preston Phillips	
**Stephanie Husen
**Amanda Glenn
**William Love
*June 30 - Aqua Chow
*July 4 - Victims of the [[Robert Crimo|Highland Park shooting]]: 
**Irina McCarthy
**Kevin McCarthy
**Jacquelyn Sundheim
**Katherine Goldstein
**Eduardo Uvaldo
**Nicholas Toledo-Zaragoza
**Stephen Strauss
*July 17 - Victims of the [[Jonathan Sapirman|Greenwood Park Mall shooting]]:
**Victor Gomez
**Pedro Pineda
**Rosa Pineda
*July 28 - Lilia Valutyte
*August 16 - Thomas O'Halloran
*August 22 - Olivia Pratt Korbel
*September 12 - PnB Rock
*September 16 - Mahsa Amini
*September 18 - Cayler Ellingson
*October 24 - Victims of the [[Orlando Harris|Central Visual and Performing Arts High School shooting]]:
**Alexzandria Bell
**Jean Kuczka
*November 1 - Takeoff
*November 19 to 20 - Victims of the [[Anderson Lee Aldrich|Colorado Springs nightclub shooting]]:
**Daniel Aston
**Kelly Loving
**Ashley Paugh
**Derrick Rump
**Raymond Green Vance
*November 22 - Victims of the [[Andre Marcus Bing|2022 Chesapeake shooting]]:
**Randy Blevins
**Fernando Chavez-Barron
**Lorenzo Gamble
**Tyneka Johnson
**Brian Pendleton
**Kellie Pyle