Historical Anniversaries in 2022 • ideas4writers

More than 2,350 historical anniversaries in 2022.

Includes significant historical events, inventions, discoveries, and famous births and deaths.

Fully cross-checked for accuracy.

Perfect for writers, journalists, broadcasters, producers, production companies, and event planners.

Packed with ideas for newspaper and magazine articles, TV and radio features, films and documentaries, and more.

Ideal for “On This Day in History” features and historical anniversary tie-ins.

Size: 11.5″ x 8.5″ (US Letter size). 176 pages.

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This book gives details of more than 2,350 newsworthy and notable historical anniversaries in 2022.

Every entry has been fully cross-checked with official sources for complete accuracy.

We only list significant anniversaries (for example 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200 years ago) not 17, 54 or 101 years ago.

NOTE:

You will receive two volumes: the anniversaries listed in chronological order and sorted by date.
(See the sample pages below.)

15th annual edition.

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Sample page (chronological order)

Anniversary	Date	Event
700	Jan 3, 1322	Death of Philip V (Philip the Tall), King of France 1316–22. Succeeded by his brother Charles IV.
700	Jan 6, 1322	Stefan Dečanski became King of Serbia.
700	Jan 11, 1322	Birth of Emperor Kōmyō of Japan. The second of the six pretenders of the Northern Court.
500	Jan 9, 1522	Pope Adrian VI was elected. (He is the only Dutch pope.)
400	Jan 15, 1622 ?	Birth of Molière, French playwright, actor and poet. One of the greatest writers of all time. (Baptized on this date. Probably born a few days earlier.)
250	Jan 1, 1772	The first traveler’s checks were issued in London. They could be used in 90 European cities.
200	Jan 7, 1822	The American Colonization Society began resettling free African-Americans in West Africa. The settlement they established later became the sovereign state of Liberia.
200	Jan 13, 1822	The original design of the Greek flag was adopted. The current version (originally the Naval Ensign) was adopted in 1978.
200	Jan 28, 1822	Birth of Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada (1873–78).
175	Jan 1, 1847	The world’s first Mercy Hospital was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA by the Sisters of Mercy.
175	Jan 4, 1847	Mexican–American War: the Texas Rangers ordered 1,000 revolvers from U.S. firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt. This allowed Colt to turn his failing business into a hugely successful one.
175	Jan 30, 1847	The town of Yerba Buena in California was renamed San Francisco.
150	Jan 2, 1872	Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested for bigamy. He had between 16 and 25 wives simultaneously – possibly more.
150	Jan 14, 1872	Death of Greyfriars Bobby, a Scottish Skye terrier dog who famously guarded his owner’s grave for 14 years.
150	Jan 31, 1872	Birth of Zane Grey, American writer of Western fiction.
125	Jan 1, 1897	The first black collegiate football game was played in the USA between Atlanta University, Georgia and Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
125	Jan 3, 1897	Birth of Pola Negri, Polish-born American stage and film actress. The first European actress contracted to Hollywood.
125	Jan 8, 1897	Birth of Dennis Wheatley, prolific British novelist. Known for his thrillers and occult novels, especially The Devil Rides Out. One of the world’s best selling authors from the 1930s to the 1960s.
125	Jan 11, 1897	Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah took office as the first female State Senator elected in the USA.

Sample page (sorted by date)

Anniversary	Date	Event
250	Jan 1, 1772	The first traveler’s checks were issued in London. They could be used in 90 European cities.
175	Jan 1, 1847	The world’s first Mercy Hospital was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA by the Sisters of Mercy.
125	Jan 1, 1897	The first black collegiate football game was played in the USA between Atlanta University, Georgia and Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
80	Jan 1, 1942	World War II: 26 countries signed the Declaration of the United Nations in Washington, D.C., USA, pledging to employ their full resources against Hitler and the Axis powers.
75	Jan 1, 1947	The Atomic Energy Commission took control of atomic energy in the USA, transferring control from the military to a civilian organisation.
75	Jan 1, 1947	The UK’s coal industry was nationalized when the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 came into effect. The industry was run by the National Coal Board. It was renamed the British Coal Corporation in 1987, and was subsequently privatized.
75	Jan 1, 1947	The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 came into effect. British subjects born in Canada, or who had lived there for the previous 20 years, became Canadian citizens. The first Canadian citizenship certificate was awarded to the Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
70	Jan 1, 1952	The nuclear reactors at Windscale (now Sellafield) in Cumbria, UK began producing enriched plutonium for use in Britain’s first atomic bomb. The first plutonium was retrieved on March 28^th, and enough material for the bomb was delivered to the weapons division in Aldermaston in August. The first bomb was successfully tested on October 3^rd.
60	Jan 1, 1962	The Beatles auditioned for Decca Records in London, but were told, “guitar groups are on the way out” and were turned down.
60	Jan 1, 1962	The U.S. Navy SEALs unit was established to handle special operations and counter-terrorism missions from the sea, air and land.
50	Jan 1, 1972	Kurt Waldheim from Austria was appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations
50	Jan 1, 1972	Death of Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer and entertainer.
40	Jan 1, 1982	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar from Peru was appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations.
30	Jan 1, 1992	Boutros Boutros-Ghali from Egypt was appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations.
30	Jan 1, 1992	Death of Grace Hopper, pioneering American computer scientist, mathematician and naval officer. She played a leading role in the development of the COBOL programming language.
25	Jan 1, 1997	TV Parental Guidelines went into effect in the USA.
25	Jan 1, 1997	Kofi Annan from Ghana was appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Reminder: the e-book edition includes both versions: chronological and sorted by date.

Customer reviews

Browse through the dates and names and let your imagination go in to overdrive. These are “must have” lists for you reference library. The allure of these people, places and times are indeed a Pandora’s Box for the enquiring mind of storytellers everywhere. Just the gift for a fellow writer.
Frances Johnson, Gold Coast Writers’ Association, Queensland, Australia.

What a magnificent tool. It’s easy to find out what happened on a particular day or month. Or you can dip straight in and find something to write about and, with your own added research, submit your work well ahead of the game. The information can also be used for quizzes, authenticating historical articles, and a multitude of other formats. Go for it!
Dee Watson, Writer, Editor, Proofreader and Reviewer

Magazines have notoriously long lead-in times, so if you’re an aspiring (or indeed successful) writer of articles you need to be looking well ahead for that all-important “hook” to get the editor interested. That’s where The Date-A-Base Book comes in. Hundreds of notable events, births, deaths, anniversaries of myriad kind from 10 years ago to 1000 years ago. Whatever your area of interest you’ll find something in here to get you started, or to flesh out your background or your characters, or to use in your marketing. The only problem with it is that you might get too engrossed in the who, what, where, and when to actually do any writing.
Lesley Mason