Category:2022

2022 (MMXXII) is the current year, and is 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 and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.

The United Nations declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development, and the International Year of Glass.

January

 * January 1 – The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the largest free trade area in the world, comes into effect for Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
 * January 2
 * Abdalla Hamdok resigns as Prime Minister of Sudan amid deadly protests.
 * The 2022 Kazakh unrest commences due to high oil prices.
 * January 4 – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States—all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—issue a rare joint statement affirming that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."
 * January 5 – A nationwide state of emergency is declared in Kazakhstan in response to the 2022 Kazakh unrest. The cabinet of prime minister Askar Mamin resigns, while president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev removes former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, widely regarded as being the real power in the country, from his position as Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan.
 * January 6 – The CSTO deploys a peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan, including Russian paratroopers, following a request by Kazakh president Tokayev.
 * January 7 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 300 million worldwide.
 * January 9 – February 6 – The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations is being held in Cameroon.
 * January 10 – The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient is reported.
 * January 15 – A large eruption of Hunga Tonga, a submarine volcano in Tonga, triggers tsunami warnings in Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United States.
 * January 16 – World No. 1 tennis champion Novak Djokovic is deported from Australia following a high-profile legal case regarding his COVID-19 vaccination status, preventing his participation in the 2022 Australian Open.
 * January 18 – American company Microsoft announces its intent to purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The deal is the largest acquisition of a tech company in history.
 * January 19 – 2022 Barbadian general election: The Barbados Labour Party wins all 30 seats of the House of Assembly of Barbados for the second consecutive time.
 * January 23
 * Tropical Storm Ana kills 88 people in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique, days after a series of floods killed 11 people in Madagascar.
 * A coup d'état in Burkina Faso removes president Roch Kaboré from power. The Burkinabé military cites the government's failure to contain activities of Islamist militants within the country as a reason for the coup.
 * January 24 – The 2022 Italian presidential election begins.
 * January 28 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 10 billion.