2022

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 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-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 - 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 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 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 invasion of Ukraine under 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.
• 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 - Laguna Woods church shooting: 68-year old David Chou shoots up Laguna Woods church, leaving a dead and 5 injured.
• 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 - Warren Clinic shooting: 45-year old Michael Louis shoots up Warren Clinic, leaving 4 dead before committing suicide.
• 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 - Highland Park parade shooting: 21-year old Robert Crimo shoots up Highland Park, leaving 7 dead and 46 injured.
• July 8 - Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō 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 31 - Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is killed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Deaths

Villain deaths

• January 1 - Calisto Tanzi
• January 10 - Robert Durst
• January 15 - Malik Akram
• January 20 - Russell Bishop
• January 24 - Lashawn McNeil
• 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
• May 24 - Salvador Ramos
• June 1 - Michael Louis
• June 8 - Frank Atwood
• June 24 - Ian Simms
• July 8 - José Eduardo dos Santos & Luis Echeverría
• July 14 - Francisco Morales-Bermúdez
• July 31 - Ayman al-Zawahiri
• August 4 - Olga Kachura
• August 5 - Tayseer al-Jabari

Victim deaths

• January 12 - Ashling Murphy
• January 14 - Kristal Bayron-Nieves
• 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 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 - Dr. John Cheng
• May 24 - Victims of the 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 Warren Clinic shooting:
  • Preston Phillips
  • Stephanie Husen
  • Amanda Glenn
  • William Love
• June 30 - Aqua Chow
• July 4 - Victims of the Highland Park shooting:
  • Irina McCarthy
  • Kevin McCarthy
  • Jacquelyn Sundheim
  • Katherine Goldstein
  • Eduardo Uvaldo
  • Nicholas Toledo-Zaragoza
  • Stephen Strauss
• July 8 - Shinzō Abe