This article is about the year 2022.
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| 2022 by topic: |
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| Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec |
| Arts |
| Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming |
| Politics |
| Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states |
| Science and technology |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight |
| Sports |
| Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league |
| By place |
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| Other topics |
| Awards – Law – Religious leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain |
| Gregorian calendar | 2022 MMXXII
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| Ab urbe condita | 2775 |
| Armenian calendar | 1471 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 178 – 179 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2566 |
| Coptic calendar | 1738 – 1739 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2014 – 2015 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5782 – 5783 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2077 – 2078 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1944 – 1945 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5123 – 5124 |
| Holocene calendar | 12022 |
| Iranian calendar | 1400 – 1401 |
| Islamic calendar | 1443 – 1444 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei
34
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2682 (皇紀2682年) |
| Julian calendar | 2067 |
| Korean calendar | 4355 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2565 |
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2022 (MMXXII ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium, the 22nd year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events[]
- February 4–20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China. Beijing will be the first city ever to host both Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.
- February 6 – Queen Elizabeth II, if still reigning, will reach 70 years on the throne, marking her platinum jubilee, the first British monarch ever to reach such a milestone.
- June – SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to send the first BFR spaceship to Mars, paving the way to colonization.[1][2]
- November 21 – December 18 – The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar.[3], to avoid the summer heat between May and September and also avoid clashing with the 2022 Winter Olympics in February.
Date unknown[]
- Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.[4]
- 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.[5]
- ESA's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer is scheduled to be launched.[6]
- A collision of the contact binary star system KIC 9832227 will result in a luminous red nova, briefly creating one of the brightest objects in the night sky.[7]
- Romania could join the eurozone. The target date has been set by Foreign Minister Teodor Meleșcanu.[8]
Genealogical events[]
People of the year 2022 at Familypedia
5 people were born in 2022
0 children were born to the 2 women born in 2022
17 people died in 2022
42 people lived in 2022
Events of the year 2022 at Familypedia
13 people were married in 2022.
| Joined with | |
|---|---|
| Hesam Mohammad Asghari (1994) | Britney Jean Spears (1981) |
| Brooklyn Joseph Beckham (1999) | Nicola Anne Peltz (1995) |
| Joshua David Duhamel (1972) | Stacy Ann Ferguson (1975)+ Audra Diane Mari (1994) |
| Navarone Anthony Garibaldi (1987) | Elisa Achilli (2000) |
| Michael Dean Lockwood (1961) | Lisa Marie Presley (1968-2023)+ Stephanie Ann Hobgood (1977) |
| Lindsay Lohan (1986) | Bader Ebrahim Shammas (1987) |
| Jennifer Lynn Lopez (1969) | Ojani Lazaro Noa (1974)+ Cristan Lee Judd (1969)+ Marco Antonio Muñiz (1968)+ Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt (1972) |
| Billie Catherine Lourd (1992) | Austen Christopher Rydell (1992) |
| Nicola Anne Peltz (1995) | Brooklyn Joseph Beckham (1999) |
| Austen Christopher Rydell (1992) | Billie Catherine Lourd (1992) |
| Bader Ebrahim Shammas (1987) | Lindsay Lohan (1986) |
| Britney Jean Spears (1981) | Jason Allen Alexander (1981)+ Kevin Earl Federline (1978)+ Hesam Mohammad Asghari (1994) |
| Jodie Lee Ann Sweetin (1982) | Shaun Ryan Holguin (1978)+ Cody Robert Herpin (1977)+ Morty Coyle (1968)+ Mescal Michael Wasilewski (1970) |
There were 0 military battles in 2022.
See also[]
External links[]
References[]
- ^ "Elon Musk outlines Mars colony vision". BBC. 27 September 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37486372. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ^ http://clowder.net/hop/railroad/EMa.htm
- ^ "FIFA Executive Committee confirms November/December event period for Qatar 2022". FIFA.com. 19 March 2015. https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/qatar2022/news/y=2015/m=3/news=fifa-executive-committee-confirms-november-december-event-period-for-q-2567789.html.
- ^ "Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022". BBC News. May 30, 2011. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13592208.
- ^ "Comet Breakup Points to Possible Meteor Shower in 2022". Space.com. 2006-05-10. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060510_comet_spitzer.html. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ^ Jonathan Amos (2012-05-02). "Esa selects 1bn-euro Juice probe to Jupiter". BBC News Online (BBC). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17917102. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ^ Clery, Daniel (2017-01-06). "Colliding stars will light up the night sky in 2022". Science. DOI:10.1126/science.aal0579. Retrieved on 2017-02-25.
- ^ Ionel Dancu (15 December 2017). "Iohannis la Bruxelles: România să treacă la moneda euro cât mai repede" (in Romanian). Evenimentul zilei. http://evz.ro/iohannis-romania-moneda-euro.html.