Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the A…
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian engineer, invented the telephone (born 1847)
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)
Samu Pecz was a Hungarian architect and academic.
Samu Pecz, Hungarian architect and academic (born 1854)
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction wri…
Henry Lawson, Australian poet and author (born 1867)
Georgette Agutte was a French painter.
Georgette Agutte, French painter (born 1867)
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)
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, sometimes spelt Wilfred, was an English poet and writer. He and his wife Lady Anne Blunt travelled in the Middle East and were instrumental in preserving the …
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (born 1840)
Alfons Grotowski was a Polish sanitary engineer, who co-designed the waterworks and sewage network of the city of Warsaw, Poland.
Alfons Grotowski, Polish sanitary engineer (born 1833)
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 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
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