2022 in California

• Governor: Gavin Newsom (D)
• Lieutenant Governor: Eleni Kounalakis (D)
• Chief Justice: Tani Cantil-Sakauye
• Senate president pro tempore: Toni Atkins (D)
• Speaker of the Assembly: Anthony Rendon (D)

California State Legislature, 2021–2022 session

• January 3: United States v. Elizabeth A. Holmes, et al.
• September 29: The Zacky Bill
• November 8: 2022 California elections
• November 14-December 23: 2022 University of California academic workers' strike

• January 13: Murder of Brianna Kupfer^[1]
• April 3: 2022 Sacramento shooting^[2]
• May 15: 2022 Laguna Woods shooting
• July 11: 2022 Brink's theft
• July 16: Killing of Rob Marquise Adams
• September 27: Stockton serial shootings^[3]
• September 28: 2022 Oakland school shooting
• October 28: Attack on Paul Pelosi^[4]

• 2022 California wildfires
• December 2021-January 2022: 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
• July–August 2022 United States floods
• December 20: 2022 Ferndale earthquake^[5]
• December 26-: 2022–2023 California floods

• January 9: San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 2022
• April 2: 26th Satellite Awards
• October 25: 50th Anniversary Saturn Awards^[6]
• December 4: 12th Streamy Awards