Events from

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...

in Tuvalu.

Incumbents

* Monarch: Elizabeth II (until 8 September); then Charles III *

Governor-General Governor-general (plural ''governors-general''), or governor general (plural ''governors general''), is the title of an office-holder. In the context of governors-general and former British colonies, governors-general are appointed as viceroy t ...

Sir Tofiga Vaevalu Falani Sir Tofiga Vaevalu Falani, is a Tuvaluan reverend who has served as Governor-General of Tuvalu since 2021 and the President of the Church of Tuvalu since 2008. In his capacity as Church President, he has represented the church at meetings of ...

* Prime Minister: Kausea Natano

Events

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania;

COVID-19 pandemic in Tuvalu The COVID-19 pandemic in Tuvalu is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have reached Tuvalu on 20 May 2022. As of 31 August ...

* 24 August – A drought and a shortage of drinking water on the islands of

Nanumea Nanumea is the northwesternmost atoll in the Polynesian nation of Tuvalu, a group of nine coral atolls and islands spread over about of the Pacific Ocean just south of the equator and west of the International Date Line. Nanumea is with a popul ...

, Nui, and Niutao. * 8 September – Accession of Charles III as

King of Tuvalu The monarchy of Tuvalu is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of Tuvalu. The current Tuvaluan monarch and head of state since 8 September 2022, is King Charles III. As sovereign, he is the pe ...

following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. * 18 September – A State Memorial Service takes place in Funafuti for Elizabeth II, Queen of Tuvalu. * 19 September – Tuvaluan representatives attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London.

Deaths

* 22 May –

Minute Alapati Taupo Minute Alapati Taupo OBE (1 February 1962 – 23 May 2022) was a Tuvaluan politician, diplomat, economist and accountant. Taupo was elected to the Parliament of Tuvalu in the 2019 Tuvaluan general election to represent the Nanumanga electorate. ...

, politician, deputy prime minister (since 2019), ambassador to Taiwan (2013–2017) (born 1962) * 8 September – Elizabeth II, Queen of Tuvalu since 1978 (born 1926)

References

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