The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies


Movie history events from 1922

Future writer Briony Tallis is born. (Atonement)

Frida Kahlo sees artist Diego Rivera painting and seducing a nude model, she later gets into a bus accident and is impaled, but lives. (Mexico City) (Frida)

Irish patriot Michael Collins dies. (Michael Collins)

Millie Dillmount and friends smash a white slave trade ring run by Mrs Meers. (New York) (Thoroughly Modern Millie)

Tuesday 10th January: Arthur Griffith is elected president of the newly established Irish Free State. (Michael Collins)

Sunday 12th March: Jack Kerouac is born. (Lowell, Massachusetts) (Kerouac, the Movie )

Saturday 20th May: Rudolph Valentino arrested for bigamy. (Los Angeles, California) (Good Night Valentino )

Tuesday 30th May: Former President Taft dedicates Lincoln Memorial. (The Winds of Kitty Hawk)

Saturday 10th June: Judy Garland (born Frances Gumm) is born. (Grand Rapids, Minnesota) (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows )

Wednesday 28th June: The Irish Civil War between the IRA and the Irish Free State begins. (Ireland) (Michael Collins)

Tuesday 8th August: Alberto Granado, future friend to Che Guevara, is born. (The Motorcycle Diaries)

Tuesday 22nd August: Michael Collins is killed in an ambush. (West County Cork, Ireland) (Michael Collins)

Tuesday 22nd August: Michael Collins is assassinated by a member of the Irish Republican Army. (Cork County, Ireland) (Michael Collins)

Wednesday 6th December: The United Kingdom and Ireland sign the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which establishes the Irish Free State. (Ireland; United Kingdom) (Michael Collins)

Sunday 24th December: Ava Gardner is born. (Smithfield, North Carolina) (The Aviator)


Copyright © 2006 - 2008 Paul Kerensa