January 2022

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**January 2022** is a one-time month that is in the year 2022. This month has ended already.

## Events

### January

More than 10 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine were mass administered worldwide.

* January 1 – The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the largest free trade area in the world, comes into effect for Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
* January 2
	+ Abdalla Hamdok resigns as Prime Minister of Sudan amid deadly protests.
	+ The 2022 Kazakh unrest commences due to high oil prices.
* January 4 – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States—all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—issue a rare joint statement affirming that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."
* January 5 – A nationwide state of emergency is declared in Kazakhstan in response to the 2022 Kazakh unrest. The cabinet of prime minister Askar Mamin resigns, while president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev removes former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, widely regarded as being the real power in the country, from his position as Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan.
* January 6 – The CSTO deploys a "peacekeeping" mission in Kazakhstan, including Russian paratroopers, following a request by Kazakh president Tokayev.
* January 7 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 300 million worldwide.
* January 9 – February 6 – The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations is held in Cameroon, with Senegal winning their first championship.
* January 10 – The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient occurs in Baltimore, Maryland.
* January 15 – A large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai, a submarine volcano in Tonga, triggers tsunami warnings in Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United States.
* January 16 – World No. 1 tennis champion Novak Djokovic is deported from Australia following a high-profile legal case regarding his COVID-19 vaccination status, preventing his participation in the 2022 Australian Open.
* January 18 – American company Microsoft announces its intent to purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The deal is the largest acquisition of a tech company in history.
* January 19 – 2022 Barbadian general election: The Barbados Labour Party wins all 30 seats of the House of Assembly of Barbados for the second consecutive time.
* January 23
	+ Tropical Storm Ana kills 115 people in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique, days after a series of floods killed 11 people in Madagascar.
	+ A coup d'état in Burkina Faso removes president Roch Kaboré from power. The Burkinabé military cites the government's failure to contain activities of Islamist militants within the country as a reason for the coup.
* January 28 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 10 billion.
* January 29 – 2022 Italian presidential election: Sergio Mattarella is reelected as president of Italy.
* January 30 – 2022 Portuguese legislative election: The Socialist Party, led by António Costa, wins an "unexpected" majority of 117 seats.

## Deaths

### January[edit]

Main article: Deaths in January 2022
Richard Leakey
Sidney Poitier
Toshiki Kaifu
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

* January 2
	+ Eric Walter Elst, Belgian astronomer (b. 1936)
	+ Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist and conservationist (b. 1944)
* January 3
	+ Beatrice Mintz, American embryologist (b. 1921)
	+ Viktor Saneyev, Soviet and Georgian triple jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1945)
* January 6
	+ Peter Bogdanovich, American film director (b. 1939)
	+ F. Sionil José, Filipino writer (b. 1924)
	+ Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, activist and ambassador (b. 1927)
* January 9 – Toshiki Kaifu, 48th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1931)
* January 11
	+ Anatoly Alyabyev, Soviet and Russian athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1951)
	+ David Sassoli, 16th President of the European Parliament (b. 1956)
	+ Ernest Shonekan, 9th Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1936)
* January 12 – Ronnie Spector, American singer (b. 1943)
* January 13 – Jean-Jacques Beineix, French film director (b. 1946)
* January 14 – Ricardo Bofill, Spanish architect (b. 1939)
* January 16 – Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, 5th President and 6th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1945)
* January 18
	+ Sir David Cox, English statistician (b. 1924)
	+ Paco Gento, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1933)
	+ André Leon Talley, American fashion journalist and stylist (b. 1948)
* January 19
	+ Gaspard Ulliel, French actor (b. 1984)
	+ Hardy Krüger, German actor (b. 1928)
* January 20
	+ Heidi Biebl, German alpine skier and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
	+ Meat Loaf, American singer and actor (b. 1947)
* January 22 – Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (b. 1926)
* January 23
	+ Keto Losaberidze, Soviet and Georgian archer and Olympic champion (b. 1949)
	+ Thierry Mugler, French fashion designer (b. 1948)
* January 24 – Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1970)
* January 25 – Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1946)
* January 30 – Leonid Kuravlyov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1936)