Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Zhang Zuolin was a Chinese warlord who ruled Manchuria from 1916 until his assassination in 1928. He led the Fengtian clique, one of the most powerful factions during the Warlord E…
Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (born 1873)
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918. I…
Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist and academic (born 1857)
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (born 1872)
Arthur Burdett Frost, usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Br'er Rabbit a…
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Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman who was the prime minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. He is the longest-serving democratically elected prime minister in …
Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1842)
Álvaro Obregón Salido was a Mexican general, inventor and politician who served as the 46th President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. Obregón was re-elected to the presidency in 1928 …
Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (born 1880)
Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.
Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and author (born 1896)
Dame Alice Ellen Terry was an English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ellen Terry, English actress (born 1847)
Édouard-Henri Avril was a French painter and commercial artist. Under the pseudonym Paul Avril, he was an illustrator of erotic literature. Avril was a soldier before starting his …
Édouard-Henri Avril, French painter (born 1849)
Stjepan Radić was a Croat politician and the co-founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (HPSS), active in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (born 1871)
Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to …
Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and educator (born 1854)
Alfred Henschke, better known by his pseudonym Klabund, was a German writer.
Klabund, German author and poet (born 1890)
Anatole von Hügel was a son of an Austrian nobleman who lived in England and was curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology, 1883 – 1921.
Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist and academic, co-founded St Edmund's College, Cambridge (born 1854)
Stefanos Skouloudis was a Greek banker, diplomat and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Greece from 1915 to 1916.
Stefanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1838)
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission …
Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright (born 1861)
The Jinan incident or 3 May Tragedy began as a 3 May 1928 dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army (NRA) and Japanese soldiers and civilians in Jinan, the capi…
After a week-long standoff punctuated by military clashes, Japanese forces captured the city of Jinan, Shandong in China
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, nicknamed Smithy, was an Australian aviation pioneer. He piloted the first transpacific flight and the first flight between Australia and New Ze…
Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed the Southern Cross in Brisbane, completing the first tran
Ivan Borkovský was a Czech-Ukrainian archaeologist. He spent his early career as a soldier fighting for the Austro-Hungarian Army against the Russians in the First World War. He la…
Archaeologist Ivan Borkovský discovered a medieval skeleton at Prague Castle; competing factions claimed the skeleton…
Paisley is a town in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Located north of the Gleniffer Braes and immediately west of Glasgow, it straddles the banks of the White Cart Water, a tributary of th…
At a cafe in Paisley, Scotland, a woman found the remains of a snail in her bottle of ginger beer, giving rise to the…
The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane and Florida's Forgotten Storm, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the N…
The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused…
The Federal Prison Camp, Alderson is a minimum-security United States federal prison for female inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a divisio…
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences …
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated
The 1927 Treaty of Jeddah, formally the Treaty between His Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Hejaz and of Nejd and Its Dependencies was signed between the United Kingdom and …
Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, whic