2022 in Taiwan

Events from the year 2022 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 111 according to the official Republic of China calendar.

← 2021 2020 2019 2022 in Taiwan → 2023 2024 2025
Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2022 History of Taiwan  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• President: Tsai Ing-wen
• Vice President: Lai Ching-te
• Premier:
  • Su Tseng-chang
• Vice Premier:
  • Shen Jong-chin

Events

Dates TBD

• 2022 U-23 Baseball World Cup

January–March

• 9 January
  • Recall election [zh] for Taipei City Constituency V, represented in the Legislative Yuan by Freddy Lim.
  • 2022 Taiwanese legislative by-election held in Taichung City Constituency II, a vacant Legislative Yuan seat following the October 2021 recall election against [zh] legislator Chen Po-wei.
• 4–20 February Chinese Taipei at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

April–June

• 2 April – 2022 Chinese Professional Baseball League season begins.
• 24 June – Index case of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Taiwan reported.

July–September

• 2–3 August – 2022 visit by Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan
• 2 August – 2022 Chinese military exercises around Taiwan
• 17–18 September – 2022 Taitung earthquakes

October–December

• 26 November
  • 2022 Taiwanese local elections
  • 2022 Taiwanese constitutional referendum

Deaths

• 11 January – Pang Chien-kuo, 68, politician, MLY (2002–2005), fall.^[1]
• 31 January – Liao Cheng-hao, 75, politician, Minister of Justice (1996–1998).^[2]
• 6 February – Huang Wen-yao [zh], 65, puppeteer (Pili).^[3]
• 7 February – Chen Shih-yung, 73, politician, Chiayi County magistrate (1989–1993).^[4]
• 8 February – Ming Chin-cheng [zh], 51, television director (The Teen Age, Monga Yao Hui, Say I Love You) and actor.^[5]
• 11 February – Chen Wen-min, 102, filmmaker.^[6]
• 13 February – Gottfried Vonwyl, 90, Swiss-Taiwanese priest.^[7]
• 14 February – Lin Kun-hai, 68, media executive (Sanlih E-Television), oral cancer.^[8]
• 16 February
  • Lien Jih-ching [zh], 94, entomologist.^[9]
  • Ba Ge, 67, actor, pancreatic cancer.^[10]
• 13 March – Tang Chuan, 69, actor (All in 700, Let's Go Crazy on LIVE!, Gold Leaf).^[11]
• 15 March – Lu Liang-Huan, 85, golfer.^[12]
• 19 March – Ku Pao-ming, 71, actor.^[13]
• 24 March – Chiu Chen [zh], 72, musician.^[14]
• 2 April – Liao Hsiang-hsiung [zh], 89, film director and regulator.^[15]
• 5 April – Jimmy Wang Yu, 79, actor and film director.^[16]
• 6 April – Wen Hsia, 93, singer and actor.^[17]
• 8 April – Peng Ming-min, 98, democracy activist.^[18]
• 6 May – George Huang, 88, politician, Changhua County magistrate (1981–1989), Chairman of the Central Election Commission (1994–1995, 1999–2004).^[19]
• 7 May – Hu Tai-li, 72, ethnologist and filmmaker.^[20]
• 9 May – Chen Bing-nan [zh], 88, actor and comedian.^[21]
• 12 June – Huang Wen-je [zh], 65, puppeteer (Pili).^[3]
• 15 June – Chang Wen-i, 73, politician, MLY (1993–2002).^[22]
• 27 June – Wu Jin-yun, 84, Olympic athlete (1960).^[23]
• 3 July – Miu Chu, 40, singer, breast cancer.^[24]
• 6 August – Ouyang Li-hsing [zh], 57, military researcher (National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology), heart attack.^[25]
• 22 November – Lin Yu-sheng, 88, philosopher and historian.^[26]