Explore 2114 historical events from 1920–1929.
Vincenzo Colosimo, known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal …
James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (born 1878)
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza, known as Venustiano Carranza, was a Mexican land owner, revolutionary, and politician who served as the 44th President of Mexico from 1917 unt…
Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (born 1859)
Svetozar Boroević von Bojna was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal who was described as one of the finest defensive strategists of the First World War. He commanded Austro-Hungarian…
Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (born 1856)
Carlos Deltour, also known as Charles Deltour, was a Mexican-born French rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Carlos Deltour, French rower (born 1864)
Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali was a Bengali writer and reformer in British India.
Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali, Bengali writer and social activist (born 1858)
Rhoda Broughton was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. Her early novels earned a reputation for sensationalism, so that her later, stronger work tended to be neglected by cri…
Rhoda Broughton, Welsh-English author (born 1840)
William Frederick Halsey was a United States naval officer. He is the father of William Halsey Jr., one of only four American naval officers to obtain the five-star rank of Fleet A…
William F
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sc…
Max Weber, German sociologist and economist (born 1864)
Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier was a Canadian judge, author, and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics of the original French version of the Canadian national anthem "O Canada". He was born i…
Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1839)
William Louis Marshall was an influential figure in the US Corps of Engineers.
William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (born 1846)
Max Klinger was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role …
Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (born 1857)
Fiammetta Wilson was a British astronomer elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1916.
Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer and educator (born 1864)
William Kissam Vanderbilt I was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist, and horse breeder. Born into the Vanderbilt family, he managed his family's railroad investments.
William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (born 1849)
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,, commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a Royal Navy officer. Fisher was chiefly recognised as an innovator, st…
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (born 1841)
Conrad Kohrs, born Carsten Conrad Kohrs was a Montana cattle rancher and politician.
Conrad Kohrs, German-American rancher and politician (born 1835)
Albert Gustaf Dahlman was a Swedish executioner. He was the last executioner in Sweden, as well as the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden, the last by means of beheadin…
Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (born 1848)
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is the unicameral legislative branch of the Turkish government. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the unitary Turkish …
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the country's unicameral legislature, first met in Ankara in the midst of the Tur
The San Remo conference was an international meeting of the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council as an outgrowth of the Paris Peace Conference, held at Castle Devachan in Sanrem…
At the San Remo conference, the principal Allies of World War I passed a resolution allocating League of Nations mandate
The 1920 blind march was a protest march from across the United Kingdom to London of 250 blind people. It was organised by the National League of the Blind (NLB) to protest poor wo…
A march by blind people from across the United Kingdom to protest poor working conditions ended at Trafalgar Square, Lon
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire, lasting from 1917 to 1922, sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the …
Russian Civil War: Relying on Red Army troops in neighboring Azerbaijan, the Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946. The Catholic kingdom emerged as a continuation of the Grand Princip…
The Kingdom of Hungary lost 72 percent of its territory and 64 percent of its population with the signing of the Treaty
Wang Lianying was a Chinese courtesan who was killed by Yan Ruisheng and his accomplices on 9 June 1920 outside of Shanghai in the Republic of China. Twenty-year-old Lianying had w…
The courtesan Wang Lianying (pictured) was murdered in Shanghai, leading to months of media and literary coverage
The 1920 Republican National Convention nominated Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding for president and Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge for vice president. The convention was hel…
During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel t
On June 15, 1920, three African-American circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, suspects in an assault case, were taken from the jail and lynched by a Whit…
Three African-American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for h