Portal:Current events/August 2022/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• Opioid epidemic
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
• 2022 European heat waves, drought, & wildfires
• 2020–2022 North American drought
  • 2022 California wildfires
• 2022 South Asian heat wave
• 2022 Pakistan floods

Economics

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–present global energy crisis
• 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
• 2021–2022 inflation surge
• 2022 food crises
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis
• United Kingdom cost of living crisis

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Dutch farmers protests
• Iraqi political crisis
• Israeli political crisis
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Peruvian crisis
• Russia−European Union gas dispute
• Sri Lankan protests
• Sudanese protests
• Tunisian political crisis
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• United States abortion protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• August
  • 23: Samoa, O le Ao o le Malo (indirect)
  • 24: Angola, President, National Assembly

Upcoming

• September
  • 4: Chile, Constitutional referendum
  • 11: Sweden, Riksdag

Trials

Recently concluded

• Russia: Brittney Griner
• Sweden: Hamid Nouri
• United States: Steve Bannon, Sunny Balwani

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Paul Flores, Nikolas Cruz, R. Kelly
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Upcoming

• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• United States: Tom Barrack

Sport

• Association football
  • 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
  • 2022–23 Premier League
  • 2022–23 La Liga
  • 2022–23 Serie A
  • 2022–23 Bundesliga
  • 2022–23 Ligue 1
  • 2022 MLS season
  • 2022 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
  • 2022 NWSL season
• Baseball
  • 2022 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2022 WNBA season
• International cricket
  • 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship
  • 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
  • 2019–23 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
  • 2019–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League
• Canadian football
  • 2022 CFL season
• Golf
  • 2022 PGA Tour Champions
  • 2021–22 PGA Tour
  • 2022 Ladies European Tour
  • 2022 European Tour
  • 2022 LPGA Tour
• Motorsport
  • 2022 Formula One World Championship
  • 2021–22 Formula E World Championship
• Rugby league
  • 2022 NRL season
• Tennis
  • 2022 ATP Tour
  • 2022 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

August

• 30: Mikhail Gorbachev
• 29: Luke Bell
• 29: Charlbi Dean
• 28: Ralph Eggleston
• 27: Robert LuPone
• 26: Roland Mesnier
• 25: Joey DeFrancesco
• 25: Mable John
• 24: Len Dawson
• 24: Man of the Hole
• 24: Joe E. Tata
• 24: Kazuo Inamori
• 24: Tim Page
• 23: Steven Hoffenberg
• 23: Gerald Potterton
• 23: Julian Robertson
• 23: Creed Taylor
• 22: Jerry Allison
• 22: Gary Gaines
• 22: Rembert Weakland
• 22: Shalom Cohen
• 22: Margaret Urlich
• 20: Helen Grayco
• 20: Tom Weiskopf
• 20: Darya Dugina
• 19: Leon Vitali
• 18: Herbert Mullin
• 18: Virginia Patton
• 18: Josephine Tewson
• 16: Duggie Brown
• 15: Frederick Buechner
• 15: Pete Carril
• 14: Nafis Sadik
• 14: Freya
• 14: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
• 13: Denise Dowse
• 13: David Kay
• 12: Wolfgang Petersen
• 12: Anshu Jain
• 11: Michael Badnarik
• 11: Darius Campbell Danesh
• 11: Anne Heche
• 11: Cecile Pineda
• 11: Bill Pitman
• 11: Jean-Jacques Sempé
• 11: Paul Green
• 11: Hanae Mori
• 10: Lydia de Vega
• 9: Gene LeBell
• 9: Raymond Briggs
• 9: Nicholas Evans
• 8: Lamont Dozier
• 8: Olivia Newton-John
• 8: Uma Pemmaraju
• 8: Zofia Posmysz
• 7: Carl Croneberg
• 7: Bert Fields
• 7: Leandro Lo
• 7: David McCullough
• 7: Roger E. Mosley

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Angola
  • Cabinda War
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Chad
  • Insurgency in Northern Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
  • Kivu conflict
  • Ituri conflict
• Ethiopia
  • Oromo conflict
  • Tigray War
    • Ethiopian–Sudanese clashes
• Maghreb
  • Islamic State insurgency in Tunisia
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Sahel
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Jihadist insurgency in Niger
  • Mali War
• Senegal
  • Casamance conflict
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
• Western Sahara
  • Guerguerat crisis

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican drug war
• Paraguay
  • Insurgency in Paraguay
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • Republican insurgency
• India
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Anti-coup insurgency
  • Rakhine conflict
  • Kachin conflict
  • Karen conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion
  • Philippine drug war
  • Moro conflict
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
  • Iran–PJAK conflict
  • Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
• Iraq
  • Iranian intervention
  • Islamic State insurgency
• Israel and Palestine
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
• Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
• Syrian civil war
  • Foreign involvement

• American-led
• Russian

• Turkish
• Iranian

• Yemeni civil war
  • Saudi Arabian–led intervention
    • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2022 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain