Events of2022 inEngland. TheQueen'splatinum jubilee took place in February; shedied in September. England'shottest temperatures on record occurred in July.

• 1 January – The warmestNew Year's Day on record is reported, with temperatures of 16.2 °C (61.2 °F) inSt James's Park,central London.^[1]
• 16 January – Two teenagers are arrested inManchester as part of the investigation into ahostage-taking incident at a synagogue inColleyville, Texas,United States.^[2]
• 24 January –Yasmin Chkaifi is stabbed to death in the street by her former partner, Leon McCaskre, inMaida Vale,London. He is killed by another man at the scene.^[3]

• 9 February – Ian Stewart, alreadyconvicted of themurder of children's authorHelen Bailey, is sentenced to awhole-life order for the killing of his previous wife, Diane Stewart, six years earlier.^[4]
• 12 February – 13 people are injured, three seriously, when amezzanine floor collapses at anEast London pub.^[5]
• 27 February –
  • TheFA announces that theEngland national football team will not play against Russia (at any level, age or gender) for the foreseeable future.^[6]
  • Liverpool wins the2022 EFL Cup Final, defeatingChelsea 11–10 on penalties following a 0–0 draw after extra time.^[7] This is Liverpool's 9th League Cup trophy.

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• 8 April – Koci Selamaj is jailed forlife, with a minimum term of 36 years, for themurder of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa in south-east London in September 2021.^[8]
• 15 April – Several road bridges in central London, includingWaterloo,Blackfriars andWestminster, are blocked byExtinction Rebellion activists.^[9]
• 23 April –Ospreys nesting inPoole Harbour,Dorset, produce an egg, the first inSouthern England in modern times.^[10]
• 25 April – Three women and a man are foundstabbed to death in a house inBermondsey, south-east London. A man is arrested at the scene on suspicion ofmurder.^[11]

• 21 May – Five people are injured after parts ofspectator stands collapse during a rehearsal for theTrooping the Colour ceremony atHorse Guards Parade in central London.^[12]
• 24 May – TheElizabeth line opens in London.^[13]
• 28 May – Police declare a major incident after asuperyacht catches fire and later sinks at Princess Pier inTorquay,Devon.^[14]
• 30 May – A 3.8 magnitude earthquake is recorded inShropshire, with its epicentre atWem in the north of the county.^[15]
• 31 May –Bradford is named the2025 UK City of Culture.^[16]

• 16 June – England's hospital waiting list reaches a new record high of 6.5 million people.^[17]
• 18 June – Thousands of protesters march through London to demand action from the government on the cost of living crisis.^[18]
• 22 June – TheUK Health Security Agency declares a national incident afterpoliovirus is found in sewage samples collected from theBeckton Sewage Treatment Works, East London.^[19]
• 26 June
  • A suspectedgas explosion destroys a house inKingstanding,Birmingham.^[20]
  • Murder of Zara Aleena

• 12 July – A report from athree-year inquiry into the child sexual exploitation inTelford,Shropshire, is released. It reveals more than 1,000 girls had been abused over a 40 year period, and that agencies blamed victims for the abuse they suffered, not the perpetrators, and exploitation was not investigated because of "nervousness about race" in the belief that investigation againstAsian men would inflame "racial tensions". The report makes 47 recommendations for improvement by agencies involved. West Mercia Police apologise "unequivocally" for past events, as well asTelford and Wrekin Council. Victims were often blamed for "child prostitution" and offenders were emboldened by the lack of police action.^[21][22]
• 17 July – TheUK government confirms that everystate school in England will have adefibrillator by summer 2023.^[23]
• 18 July – Wildbison are reintroduced in the UK for the first time in thousands of years. Three of the animals are allowed to roam in theKent countryside, where it is hoped they could improve the localecology.^[24]
• 19 July –2022 United Kingdom heat waves: A major incident is declared in London, with more than 250firefighters battlinggrassfires in the east and south of the capital.^[25] As a result,London Fire Brigade has its busiest day sinceWorld War Two.^[26]
• 24 July – A major incident is declared in Surrey as a wildfire breaks out onHankley Common, burning at least 8hectares (20acres) of land.^[27]
• 31 July –England winUEFA Women's Euro 2022, beatingGermany 2–1; the winning goals are scored byElla Toone andChloe Kelly. It is England's first major football victory since the1966 men's FIFA world cup.^[28]

• 3 August –
  • As a prolonged dry spell continues in Southern England, ahosepipe ban is announced for Kent andSussex from 12 August.^[29]
  • BBC Birmingham announces it will move into new premises built at the formerTyphoo tea factory in the city'sDigbeth area, with a date of 2026 set for the move.^[30]
• 5 August – A large fire breaks out at an industrial site inRanskill, in which over a thousand tyres created a large black smoke cloud.^[31]
• 8 August –
  • A child is killed and three people are hospitalised with life-threatening injuries after agas explosion destroys a house inThornton Heath, South London. Around 40 properties in the immediate vicinity are evacuated, as police begin an investigation.^[32]
  • England finish the2022 Commonwealth Games in second place behind Australia with 176 medals, 97 of them gold, surpassing their 2014 total of 174.^[33]
• 9 August –Thames Water announces plans to introduce a hosepipe ban for its 15 million customers, with a start date to be confirmed.^[34]
• 10 August – A meeting of theJoint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommends an urgentpoliovaccine booster campaign for children aged one to nine in London, following detection of the virus in 116 samples of wastewater.^[35]
• 12 August – Adrought is declared in large parts ofCentral, Southern andEastern England.^[36]
• 14 August –
  • TheCrown Prosecution Service confirms that six people who werecharged with breachinglockdown rules after attendingdemonstrations in the wake of the March 2021murder of Sarah Everard will not beprosecuted.^[37]
  • The Sunday Times reports that regulated rail fares in England will rise below the rate of inflation in 2023 to help commuters struggling with thecost of living crisis. The rise will also be delayed until March rather than the usual January increase.^[38]
• 16 August –NHS England confirms it is extending itsbowel cancer screening programme to all adults over the age of 58.^[39]
• 22 August -Killing of Olivia Pratt-Korbel
• 23 August – A drought is declared in theWest Midlands.^[40]
• 30 August – A drought is declared in South West England, coveringBristol,Somerset,South Gloucestershire,Dorset and parts ofWiltshire.^[41]

• 8 September –Elizabeth IIdies after a 70 year reign, the longest of any British monarch.^[42]

• 24 October –Bond Street station opens to theElizabeth line in a ceremony byMayor of LondonSadiq Khan.^[43]
• 30 October –Dover firebomb attack

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• 1 December –2022 City of Chester by-election
• 14 December
  • 2022 Stretford and Urmston by-election
  • Jordan McSweeney isconvicted of themurder of Zara Aleena
• 24 December –Wallasey pub shooting

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