2022

2022 (MMXXII) was .
2022 saw the ongoing impact of an inflation increase because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began in 2020, continued throughout the year.
In February, Russia invades Ukraine, causing the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. The consequences include international sanctions on Russia. More than 4.3 million Ukrainians leave, causing a refugee crisis.
2022 also saw the deaths of well known world leaders including Shinzo Abe, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Elizabeth II, the last of which reigned for more than seventy years.
Death events.
-January
January 2 - Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician Richard leakey dies aged 77
January 3 - Beatrice Mintz (American embryologist) dies aged 100
January 4 - The younger sister of Arthur Miller Joan Copeland dies aged 99
January 6 - World's first black man to win an academy award Sidney poltier dies aged 94
January 9 - 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991 Toshiki Kaifu dies aged 91
January 11 - President (since 2019) of the European Parliament David Sassoli dies aged 65
January 12 - The Ronettes lead singer Ronnie Spector dies aged 78
January 14 - Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill dies aged 82
January 18 - American fashion journalist Andre Leon Talley dies aged 73