1922 in The United Kingdom - Events

Events

  • January - The year begins with the British Empire at its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four people on earth.
  • 1 January - Transport and General Workers' Union formed by merger of fourteen smaller unions under its first general secretary Ernest Bevin, forming by far the largest trade union.
  • 7 January - In Ireland the Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
  • 12 January
    • British government releases remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of Independence.
    • HMS Victory permanently dry docked at Portsmouth.
  • 13 January - Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.
  • 24 January - Façade – An Entertainment, poems by Edith Sitwell recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton, first performed, privately in London.
  • 1 February - Formal handing over of Beggars Bush Barracks takes place in Dublin, marking the first act of British military withdrawal from Ireland.
  • 6 February - Washington Naval Treaty signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy.
  • 28 February - Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by the United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt and grants the country nominal independence, reserving control of military and diplomatic matters.
  • 29 April - Huddersfield Town win the FA Cup with a 1-0 win over Preston North End in the final at Stamford Bridge, London. From next year, the final will be played at the new stadium being built at Wembley, North London.
  • 1 March - The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
  • 16 May - The final group of British troops leave the Curragh Camp in Ireland.
  • 29 May - British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley jailed for seven years for fraud.
  • 1 June - Official founding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • 22 June - Irish Republican Army agents assassinate Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson in Belgravia; the assassins are sentenced to death on 18 July.
  • 17 July - County Hall, London opened, as the new headquarters of the London County Council.
  • 20 July - Infanticide Act effectively abolishes the death penalty for a woman who deliberately kills her newborn child while the balance of her mind is disturbed as a result of giving birth, by providing a partial defence to murder.
  • 17 August - Dublin Castle is formally handed over to the Irish Republican Army as the last British Army troops leave.
  • 5 September - An underground explosion at Haig Pit, Whitehaven, in the Cumberland Coalfield, kills 39.
  • 7 October - Speaking on the radio station 2LO, the Prince of Wales becomes the first Royal to make a public broadcast.
  • 17 October - First Hunger March sets out, from Glasgow to London.
  • 18 October - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is formed.
  • 19 October - David Lloyd George's Coalition Ministry resigns over the Chanak Crisis.
  • 23 October - Bonar Law's Conservative government takes office.
  • 1 November - A broadcasting licence fee of ten shillings is introduced.
  • 2 November - Archaeologist Leonard Woolley begins excavations at the Sumerian city of Ur.
  • 4 November - In Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
  • 14 November - The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom, broadcasting from station 2LO in London.
  • 15 November
    • General election, the first following the partition of Ireland, won by the Conservative Party under Bonar Law. The Labour Party overtakes the Liberal Party as Britain's second largest political party.
    • First BBC broadcasts from Birmingham (station 5IT) and Manchester (station 2ZY).
  • 5 December - UK Parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new Constitution of the Irish Free State.
  • 6 December - The Irish Free State officially comes into existence. George V becomes the Free State's monarch.
  • 7 December - The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain part of the United Kingdom.
  • 10 December - Francis William Aston wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule".
  • 11 December - End of the trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters at the Old Bailey in London for the murder of Thompson's husband. Both found guilty and sentenced to death.
  • 18 December - Carrie Morrison becomes the first woman solicitor admitted to practice in England.
  • 24 December - First BBC broadcast from Newcastle upon Tyne (station 5NO).

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