Global Events of 2022 that shaped the World

The year 2022 would go down as yet another memorable year with major and significant events. These events included the declaration of war and attack by Russian against Ukraine, the UK having three ministers within 120 days, the death of British Queen Elizabeth 11, Messi lifting the World Cup trophy for Argentina in Qatar, the death of Soccer legend Pele and the death of Pope Benedict XVI.

Here is the list of major global events of 2022 that shaped the World. For major sporting events of 2022 that shaped the world click here to see this other article

• Apple becomes the first USA corporation to be worth $3 trillion
• Senegal beat Egypt to win the 2022 AFCON cup
• The 2022 Winter Olympics begin and was successfully held in Beijing, China
• Actor Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the Academy Awards for making a joke about his wife
• Global death toll from covid-19 exceeds the 6 million mark.
• First successful transplant of a pig heart into a human with a  genetically modified pig’s heart placed into 53year old-man in Baltimore, Maryland
• Two European Countries, Finland and Sweden, begin process of joining NATO as members
• Military Coup in Burkina Faso happened as military officers announce they overthrew President Roch Kaboré for failure to stem insurgency
• Prime Minister António Costwin of Portugal and his ruling Socialist party wins outright majority in the country’s snap election
• Russia declares war against Ukraine and launches full scale attack
• Boris Johnson resigns as UK prime minister
• Liz Trus succeeds Boris Johnson as Prime Minister
• Liz Russ resigns as UK prime minster after days in office and is succeeded by Rishi Sunak
• Queen Elizabeth 11 dies on September 8th at Balmoral Castle in Scotland  and is buried at St. George’s Chapel within the grounds of Windsor Castle, one of the late Queen’s favorite homes and where many royals have been laid to rest before her
• Prince Charles become king of England
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins the Brazillian presidential elections after beating incunbent president Jair Bolsonaro
• Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female president after lawmakers removed her predecessor Pedro Castillo for violating the constitution
• Mr. Xi Jinping is confirmed as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the country’s top ruling body, for a third five-year term following a week-long meeting of a committee of 2300 hand-picked cadres which only takes place once every five years. This makes him President for life
• China Eastern Airlines flight crashes in Guangxi region, China, killing all 132 people on board
• Bongbong Marcos, son of former President Ferdinand Marcos wins presidential elections and is sworn in as President of the Philippines
• Emmanuel Macron is re elected as  French President with 66 Percent electoral win, Commits To European Unity
• American city of New York is named the world’s wealthiest city with 59 billionaires and 345,600 millionaires followed by Tokyo and San Francisco
• Volkswagen launches Flying Tiger, a prototype of first flying car which is an automated electric passenger vehicle
• Donald Trump invokes the fifth amendment at a disposition into his organization’s business by New York attorney general’s office
• Serena Williams announces retirement from tennis
• Deputy President William Ruto wins Kenyan presidential election
• Nicki Minaj’s single titled “Super Freaky Girl” debuts at number 1 as she becomes the first female rapper to do so since Lauren Hill Doo Wop (That Thing)  was at number 1 in 1998
• California State votes to ban sales of all new gasoline-powered cars by 2035
• In Nigeria well over 300 people died and more than 100,000 displaced by the worst floods in years
• Stampede during Halloween festival in Seoul, South Korea, leaves 155 dead
• Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party wins the Israeli parliamentary elections defeating Prime Minister Yair Lapid party
• The democratic party wins US Mid-term elections retaining control of the Senate with simple majority
• The World population reaches 8 billion persons, 11 years after passing the 7 billion mark
• The Republican party regains control of the US House of Representatives with a narrow margin
• The UN Conference of the parties (UN COP27) summit agrees to set up a fund to help poor and climate vulnerable countries with climate change
• 80 year old Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea who is the  World’s longest-serving president wins re-election as president in extending his 43-year rule
• China reports 28,127 new cases of COVID-19 outbreaks with half of these in Guangzhou and Chongqing
• Public protests held in Chinese cities over restrictive COVID-19 policies.
• Qatar confirms that between 400-5000 immigrant workers majority of who are from Asia and Africa died during the construction of the world cup venues
• New York Court convicts Donald Trump’s real estate company of tax fraud
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named person of the year by times
• Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California successfully conducts  First nuclear fusion reaction in a laboratory replicating the same energy powering the sun
• US winter storm brings freezing temperatures and travel chaos and leaving over 56 dead and more than 700,000 without power
• President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected leader of the ANC for a second five-year term and absolved by his party of corruption accusations.
• Stock prices tumble on the US with major corporations and wealthy individuals losing billions in value
• Elon Musk buys twitter after trying to dodge the contract and the twitter board taking him to court.
• Morocco becomes the first African Country to reach the semi finals of the World Cup
• Lionel Messi leads his country Argentina to win the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar
• Karim Benzema of Real Madrid FC wins the 2022 Ballon D’or
• Soccer legend and Football’s Great Of All Time, Tamar Pele, real name Edson Arantes do Nascimento, dies at the age of 82 after a battle with cancer
• Pope Benedict XVI dies at the age of 96
• Donald Trumps tax returns are released to the public
• US House committee refers Donald Trump’s criminal charges to the Justice Department for his attempts to overturn the US  2020 presidential election and encourage mob to attack the Capitol
• Cristiano Ronaldo joins Saudi Arabian Club, Al Nassr
• The Taliban suspend university education for all female students in Afghanistan