Timeline October 1922

Events in October 1922 11

• 1870 – 1922 Marie Lloyd (1870-1922) Died 7 October 1922, aged 52 Marie Lloyd, one of the most popular British music hall performers of her era, died in London days after collapsing on stage during a performance. Known for songs laced with innuendo, she was a defining figure of Victorian and Edwardian popular entertainment. Her funeral drew huge crowds of mourners.
• 1922 Chanak Crisis Britain and Turkey come to the brink of war over the Straits In September 1922 Turkish nationalist forces advancing toward the neutral zone at Chanak (Canakkale) brought Britain and Turkey close to renewed war. British public and dominion reluctance to fight forced the government to seek a negotiated settlement. The crisis was resolved by the Armistice of Mudanya on 11 October 1922 and contributed to the fall of Lloyd George's government.
• 1922 The Waste Land Published T. S. Eliot's poem appears in The Criterion T. S. Eliot's long poem The Waste Land was first published in October 1922 in the British literary magazine The Criterion, which Eliot had just founded. Its fragmented structure and bleak postwar imagery made it a landmark of modernist poetry. It was published as a book with explanatory notes later the same year.
• 1922 – 2025 Chen Ning Yang (1922-2025) Died 18 October 2025, aged 103 Chinese-born American theoretical physicist who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics for showing that parity is violated in certain particle decays.
• 1922 BBC Founded The British Broadcasting Company begins operations The British Broadcasting Company was formed on 18 October 1922 by a group of radio manufacturers to provide a national broadcasting service. It began daily radio broadcasts from London later that year. It was reconstituted as the publicly owned British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927.
• 1922 March on Rome Rise of Fascism The organized mass demonstration which resulted in Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Party ascending to power.
• 1922 Bonar Law Becomes British Prime Minister Lloyd George's coalition collapses Andrew Bonar Law became Prime Minister on 23 October 1922 after Conservative backbenchers voted at the Carlton Club to end their party's coalition with David Lloyd George, who resigned the same week. Bonar Law led a Conservative government and called a general election the following month. Ill health forced his resignation within a year.
• 1922 – 2014 Ruby Dee (1922-2014) Died 11 June 2014, aged 91 Ruby Dee, the actress and civil rights activist known for "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Do the Right Thing," died in New York. She and her husband Ossie Davis were prominent figures in both the entertainment industry and the civil rights movement. She received an Academy Award nomination late in her career for "American Gangster."
• 1922 – 2005 Barbara Bel Geddes (1922-2005) American actress, Broadway's first Maggie the Cat, Midge in Vertigo and Miss Ellie in Dallas.
• 1922 Barbara Bel Geddes born in New York Barbara Bel Geddes is born in New York.
• 1922 – 1943 Mussolini takes power Fascist era begins Benito Mussolini established a fascist dictatorship while Italy remained formally a monarchy.