January 2022: Events and Anniversaries Preview
5 January 2022
Happy New Year! We'd like to wish you a great start to what we hope is a great 2022.
Welcome to your January preview tool, covering January to April, as well as a featured story and a list of significant dates in the year ahead. Each date links to an album of imagery and brief text.
In the coming weeks, we will send a preview of events up to 2025 for those who need to plan further ahead.
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2022 full-year preview of significant events and anniversaries
Barbarossa: 900th anniversary of his birth
Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered- 75th anniversary
4 May: Juan de Valdés Leal - 400th anniversary of his birth
18 May: Bertrand Russell - 150th anniversary of his birth
9 June: Peter the Great - 350th anniversary of his birth
17 June: Watergate scandal - 50th anniversary
25 June: Jacques Cousteau - 25th anniversary of his death
16 July: Roald Amundsen - 150th anniversary of his birth
28 July: Marcel Duchamp - 135th anniversary of his birth
2 August: Alexander Graham Bell - 100th anniversary of his death
15 August: Independence of India - 75th anniversary
31 August: Diana, Princess of Wales - 25th anniversary of her death
5 September: Mother Theresa - 25th anniversary of her death
5 - 6 September: Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics - 50th anniversary
6 September: Magellan's 'Victoria' circumnavigates the world - 500th anniversary
7 September: Independence of Brazil - 200th anniversary
10 September: Otto Haekel - 150th anniversary of his birth
12 October: Columbus reaches the Americas - 530th anniversary
16 October: Cuban Missile Crisis - 60th anniversary
2 November: Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb - 100th anniversary
27 December: Louis Pasteur - 200th anniversary of his birth
January 2022
5 January: Sir Ernest Shackleton - 100th anniversary of his death
8 January: David Bowie - 75th anniversary of his birth
12 January: HMS Victory dry docked at Portsmouth - 100th anniversary
15 January: Molière - 400th anniversary of his birth
16 January: The Cavern Club opened in Liverpool - 65th anniversary
17 January: Muhammed Ali - 80th anniversary of his birth
20 January: Wansee Conference - 80th anniversary
23 January: Edouard Manet - 190th anniversary of his birth
24 January: Friedrich II, King of Prussia - 310th anniversary of his birth
25 January: Virginia Woolf - 140th anniversary of her birth
25 January: Ivan Shishkin - 190th anniversary of his birth
26 January: Kees van Dongen - 145th anniversary of his birth
27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day
30 January: National Storytelling Week
February 2022
2 February: James Joyce - 140th anniversary of his birth
6 February: King George VI - 70th anniversary of his death
6 February: Queen Elizabeth II - Platinum Jubilee
7 February: Charles Dickens - 210th anniversary of his birth
8 February: Mary Queen of Scots - 435th anniversary of her death
11 February: Thomas Edison - 175th anniversary of his birth
14 February: St Valentine's Day
16 February: Francis Galton - 200th anniversary of his birth
25 February: Abolition of Prussia - 75th anniversary
27 February: Elizabeth Taylor - 90th anniversary of her birth
28 February: Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence - 100th anniversary
March 2022
c. March: Harriet Tubman - 200th anniversary of her birth (exact date in March unknown)
1 March: Women's History Month
1 March: Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras / Pancake Day
3 March: Alexander Graham Bell - 175th anniversary of his birth
7 March: Piet Mondrian - 150th anniversary of his birth
8 March: International Women's Day
9 March: Carrie Chapman Catt - 75th anniversary of her death
10 March: Gandhi arrested for sedition - 100th anniversary
16 March: Rosa Bonheur - 200th anniversary of her birth
22 March: William I, German Emperor - 225th anniversary of his birth
22 March: Virginia Di Castiglione - 185th anniversary of her birth
25 March: Elton John - 75th birthday
31 March: Fritzi Massary - 140th anniversary of her birth
April 2022
1 April: Charles I or Karl I, Emperor of Austria - 100th anniversary of his death
3 April: The founding of the Vienna Secession - 125th anniversary
3 April: Doris Day - 100th anniversary of her birth
10 April: Joseph Pulitzer - 175th anniversary of birth
15 April: Leonardo Da Vinci - 570th anniversary of his birth
15 April: RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg the previous night - 110th anniversary
21 April: Queen Elizabeth turns 96 years old
27 April: Ulysses S Grant - 200th anniversary of birth
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