Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
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
The Partition of Ireland was the process by which the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK) divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern …
Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern I
West Virginia is a mountainous, landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast, Virgin…
West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years
The Tulsa race massacre was a two-day-long terrorist massacre perpetrated by white supremacists that took place in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, between…
The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300
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.
The Rif War was an armed conflict fought from 1921 to 1926 between Spain and Berber tribes of the mountainous Rif region of northern Morocco.
Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of…
Alexander I Karađorđević, also known as Alexander the Unifier, was King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 16 August 1921 to 3 October 1929 and King of Yugoslavia from 3 Octobe…
Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter a
The Communist Party of China (CPC), commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, …
The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the…
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included …
World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the…
Bloody Sunday or Belfast's Bloody Sunday was a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 10 July 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. The violence erupted one day befo…
Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun…
Melvin Tyler Storer was an American shipfitter, navy diver and welder who served in the United States Navy Reserve on the USS West Virginia and USS Yarnall. He was aboard the USS C…
Melvin Storer, American shipfitter and navy diver (died 2003)
Jean Richard was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which…
Jean Richard, French actor and singer (died 2001)
Anna Lee Aldred was an American jockey and trick rider in rodeos. She was the first woman in the United States to receive a jockey's license. She pursued her professional horse rac…
Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (died 2006)
Roberto Tucci, SJ was an Italian Catholic theologian, journalist, and Jesuit priest. He played an important role at the Second Vatican Council and organized foreign trips taken by …
Roberto Tucci, Italian Jesuit leader, cardinal, and theologian (died 2015)
Katarína Kolníková was a Slovak stage actress.
Katarína Kolníková, Slovak actress (died 2006)
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often referred by its shortened name as the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Unio…
The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government an…
Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,…