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| 1920 |
| | | The Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopts the simpler Le Corbusier as a pseudonym in L'Esprit Nouveau | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda | |
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| 1920 |
| | | D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Government of Ireland Act provides for separate devolved parliaments in southern Ireland and the six counties of Ulster | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Marconi studio in the English town of Chelmsford broadcasts Dame Nellie Melba live to Europe and to ships on the Atlantic | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A group of composers in Paris - Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre - become known as 'les Six' | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The brutal behaviour of the British police reinforcements, the Black and Tans, aggravates the violence in Ireland | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Gustav Holst's Hymn of Jesus has its premiere in London, conducted by the composer | |
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| 1920 |
| | | New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies publishes a pioneering text book, Plastic Surgery of the Face | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Douglas Fairbanks makes the first of his swashbuckling adventure movies, The Mark of Zorro | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks is a Hollywood sensation after a three-year affair | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Warren Harding wins the US presidential election for the Republicans | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The civil war ends as the last White army on Russian soil escapes from the Crimea | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The IRA and the British security forces clash during a violent 'Bloody Sunday' in Dublin | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Italian troops drive Gabriele d'Annunzio and his followers from Fiume, which they have occupied for more than a year | |
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| 1920 |
| | | On his return to Britain from the far east, Bernard Leach sets up a pottery studio in St Ives | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The American novelist Sinclair Lewis has his first major success with Main Street, an unflattering portrayal of American village life | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give France responsibility for Syria and Lebanon | |
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| 1920 August |
| | | A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1920 August 10 |
| | | The sultan of Turkey signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allies but it is rejected by the new nationalist government | |
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| 1920 November 11 |
| | | The body of an Unknown Warrior, selected at random from British war graves, is buried at the entrance to Westminster Abbey | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The schooner Bluenose begins a long series of international racing victories for Canada | |
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| 1921 |
| | | James Craig succeeds Edward Carson as leader of the Ulster Unionist party in northern Ireland | |
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| 1921 |
| | | An army officer, Reza Khan, becomes war minister after seizing control of Tehran with his Cossack brigade | |
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| c. 1921 |
| | | The first traces are found of a major but entirely forgotten civilization in the Indus valley | |
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| 1921 |
| | | With massive force, and huge casualties, Lenin puts an end to a naval mutiny at Kronstadt | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Marie Stopes and her husband set up in London a Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control, the first of its kind in Britain | |
|  | Marie Stopes mobile birth control clinic
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1921 |
| | | Abdullah ibn Hussein, of the Hashemite family, becomes emir of the new province of Transjordan | |
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| 1921 |
| | | In a major economic U-turn, Lenin's New Economic Policy allows peasants to hold markets and sell the surplus of their product | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The commission considering the level of Germany's war reparations to the Allies decides on $33 billion | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Some 50,000 peasants are herded into Russia's first concentration camps | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The republican party Sinn Fein is unopposed in southern Ireland's first general election, and so wins every available seat in the Dail | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Mussolini and 35 of his Fascist colleagues win seats in the Italian parliament | |
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