A 2022 full of challenges: the key dates of the international calendar for this year

Whenever the COVID-19 allow it, this will be a year full of appointments and events of great impact for the future of the planet. Changes of command, summits, referenda, events and other events are on the agenda for the next 365 days that have just begun.

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Next, a review of the key dates that will mark the world and national stage.

JANUARY

DAY 1

• Funeral of South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, icon of the struggle against apartheid.

DAY 2

• It is 40 years since the start of the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom.

DAY 6

• It is a year since the assault on the United States Capitol.

US Capitol police officers attempt to prevent supporters of then-President Donald Trump from entering the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Saul LOEB / AFP) (SAUL LOEB /)

DAY 10

• Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who has governed since 2007, will take office in his new term, along with his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo.

DAY 13

• Tenth anniversary of the accident of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia.

DAY 27

• Take the first woman president in Honduras Xiomara Castro.

Xiomara Castro in campaign. (Photo: AFP)

DAYS 27 AND 28

• Costa Rica hosts the Forum of Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean.

FEBRUARY

DAY 1

• The Chinese New Year begins.

DAY 4 – 20

• Beijing Winter Olympics, China. Countries like the United States and the United Kingdom are leading a “diplomatic boycott” of the event due to human rights violations in the Asian country.

A woman rides past the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games logo on a street in Beijing on December 11, 2021. (Photo by JADE GAO / AFP) (JADE GAO/)

DAY 6

• Presidential and legislative elections in Costa Rica.
• It is 70 years since the rise to the British throne of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, after the death of her father, George VI.

DAY 7

• 30 years have passed since the creation of the European Union.

HALF OF FEBRUARY

• Belarus submits the draft new Constitution to a referendum, amid a severe crisis of legitimacy for President Alexander Lukashenko.

DAY 25 – MARCH 1

• The Rio de Janeiro carnival returns after two years of waiting due to the pandemic.

Before the pandemic, the Rio de Janeiro Carnival attracted thousands of people from all over the world. (Photo: EFE)

MARCH

DAY 11

• The leftist Gabriel Boric assumes the presidency of Chile.
• Two years have passed since the declaration of a COVID-19 pandemic.

DAY 13

• Legislative elections in Colombia, to which the parties will arrive amid internal divisions.

DAY 21

• The new Felipe Ángeles airport opens in Mexico.

APRIL

DAY 9

• It is one year after the death of Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh.

Prince Philip of Edinburgh passed away at the age of 99. (Photo: AFP)

DAY 10

• Presidential elections in France in which the current president, Emmanuel Macron, would run for a second term. The second round is set for April 24.
• Consultation for the revocation of the presidential mandate in Mexico promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador himself.

MAYO

DAY 9

• Presidential elections in the Philippines, in which candidates such as Sara Duterte-Carpio, daughter of current president Rodrigo Duterte, and former boxer Manny Pacquiao compete.

DAY 13

• It is 15 years since the disappearance of the girl Madeleine McCann, in Portugal, a mystery still unsolved.

DAY 24

• Bicentennial of the independence of Ecuador from the rule of Spain.

DAY 29

• Presidential elections in Colombia to decide who will succeed the right-wing Iván Duque.

The current president of Colombia, Iván Duque. (Photo: EFE)

JUNE

DAYS 39 AND 30

• NATO Summit in Madrid, Spain, with the crisis with Russia as a backdrop.

JULY

DAY 1

• The first same-sex marriages take place in Switzerland.

DAYS 2-6

• United Nations Oceans Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

DAY 16

• It is 30 years since the Tarata Attack of 1992.

Things were never the same in Lima after the terrorist attack in Tarata. (El Comercio Archive)

DAY 25

• Referendum in Tunisia on the constitutional reforms proposed by the citizens.

AUGUST

DAY 31

• It marks 25 years since the death of Princess Diana of Wales, in a car accident in Paris, France, in 1997.

SEPTEMBER

DAY 7

• Bicentennial of the Independence of Brazil.

DAY 12

• 30 years have passed since the capture of Abimael Guzmán.

OCTOBER

DAY 2

• General elections in Brazil. Those called to contest the presidency are the current far-right president Jair Bolsonaro and the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva are the main figures called to lead the electoral campaign. (Photo: Reuters / AFP) (Reuters Agency /) (AFP Agency /)

DAY 6

• Parliamentary elections in Latvia.

DAYS 30 AND 31

• G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

NOVEMBER

DAY 8

• Midterm elections in the United States, which renew part of the Legislature and which will serve as a test to measure the popularity of President Joe Biden.

These elections are a test for Biden. (Photo: AFP) (APU GOMES /)

FROM NOVEMBER 21 TO DECEMBER 18

• Soccer World Cup in Qatar, already tainted in the previous one by allegations of mistreatment of workers and human rights violations in the rich Arab country.

DECEMBER

DAY 17

• Early legislative elections in Tunisia.

NO DATE ESTABLISHED

• Chile will hold an exit plebiscite at the end of the year in which citizens will decide whether or not to ratify the new Constitution.
• In the second half of the year, Chinese President Xi Jinping will be ratified for a third term as head of his party – and therefore the country – during the XX Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: EFE)

• The 52nd General Assembly of the OAS will be held in Peru.
• Chile and Bolivia will meet again in The Hague over the dispute over the waters of the Silala River.
• Ibero-American Summit in the Dominican Republic.
• Summit of the Americas in the US
• IX Congress of the Spanish Language in Arequipa, Peru.
• Presidential and legislative elections in India.
• Thailand hosts the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC)

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• The day that ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán left a city without roses to bury his son
• Mexico will require a visa from Venezuelans to prevent them from reaching the United States
• The murdered actress Tania Mendoza and her love for the Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltrán Leyva
• “My husband cut off my hands with an ax”
• Tania Mendoza, actress of “La mera reina del sur” is shot to death in Mexico

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