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 26 - Syrian and American forces suppress the Islamic State uprising in al-Hasakah.

Deaths

Villain deaths

• January 1 - Calisto Tanzi
• January 10 - Robert Durst
• January 15 - Malik Akram
• January 20 - Russell Bishop

Victim deaths

• January 12 - Ashling Murphy
• January 14 - Kristal Bayron-Nieves