Explore 2699 historical events from 1920–1929.
Ture Robert Ferdinand Malmgren was a Swedish journalist, book publisher, and municipal politician. A prominent figure in his hometown of Uddevalla, Malmgren became a colorful and w…
Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (born 1851)
İsmâil Enver Pasha was an Ottoman Turkish military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who was a part of the dictatorial triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas" in t…
Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (born 1881)
Reginald William Dunne was Battalion Commandant of the London Battalion, Irish Republican Army (IRA) and one of two men hanged for the murder of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.
Reginald Dunne, Irish Republican, executed for the killing of Sir Henry Wilson
Joseph O'Sullivan, along with fellow Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer Reginald Dunne, shot dead Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson outside Wilson's home at 36 Eaton Place, Belgrav…
Joseph O'Sullivan, Irish Republican, executed for the killing of Sir Henry Wilson
Arthur Joseph Griffith was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin. He led the Irish delegation at the negotiations that produced…
Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (born 1871)
The Irish Republican Army of 1922–1969 was a sub-group of the original pre-1922 Irish Republican Army, characterised as the Anti-Treaty IRA for its opposition to the Anglo-Irish Tr…
Irish Republican Army gunmen assassinated British member of parliament Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
Rebecca J. Cole was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer. In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States, …
Rebecca Cole, American physician and social reformer (born 1846)
Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence. During the War of Independenc…
Michael Collins, Irish rebel, counter-intelligence and military tactician, and politician; 2nd Irish Minister of…
Reşat Çiğiltepe was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army, having fought in the Balkan wars, and in World War 1 during the Gallipoli campaign and the Battle of Muş. H…
Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (born 1879)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.…
The Soviet government created the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR
The Imperial Wireless Chain was a strategic international communications network of powerful long range radiotelegraphy stations, created by the British government to link the coun…
The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network c
The London to Brighton walk was a competitive walking race held on the road from London, England, to the south coast resort of Brighton. In the era before organised sport individua…
Sixteen-year-old Lilian Salkeld became the first woman to walk from London to Brighton
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial honoring Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, located on the western end of the National Mall of Washington, D…
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D
The following is a list of unions and brotherhoods playing a significant role in the railroad industry of the United States of America. Many of these entities changed names and mer…
Seven of the sixteen American railroad labor organizations staged a nationwide strike (striking workers pictured) that…
Tenentism was a political philosophy of junior army officers, generally from the burgeoning middle-class and unsatisfied with the oligarchic structure of the republic who significa…
Brazilian Army rebels took over Fort Copacabana and launched a rebellion in Rio de Janeiro against President Epitácio…
The Jaffa riots were a series of violent riots in Mandatory Palestine on May 1–7, 1921, which began as a confrontation between two Jewish groups but developed into an attack by Ara…
The Jaffa riots commence
The Romanian Communist Party was a communist party in Romania. It was founded in 1921 and became the founding and ruling party of the Communist Socialist Republic of Romania in 194…
The creation of the Communist Party of Romania
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later exe…
Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant upr
Knockcroghery is a village and townland in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located on the N61 road between Athlone and Roscommon town, near Lough Ree on the River Shannon. The tow…
The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, is burned by British forces
Buckingham and Carnatic Mills, popularly known as B & C Mills, were textile mills run by Binny and Co. in the city of Madras, India. The mills were closed down in 1996 and the s…
Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike
Knockcroghery is a village and townland in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located on the N61 road between Athlone and Roscommon town, near Lough Ree on the River Shannon. The tow…
The Irish village of Knockcroghery was burned by British forces
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular pre…
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The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and British forces: the …
A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.