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| 1922 |
| | | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wins a long campaign to expel the Greeks, authorized by the victorious Allies to occupy western Turkey | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Lloyd George loses his majority in the House of Commons when the Conservatives vote in a Carlton Club meeting to withdraw from his coalitiion | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Mussolini gives orders for armed squads to congregate around Rome, in preparation for a march to seize power in the capital | |
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| 1922 |
| | | German film director Ernst Lubitsch moves to Hollywood, at the request of Mary Pickford | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Italian king Victor Emmanuel III, alarmed at the prospect of a Fascist march on Rome, asks Mussolini to form a government | |
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| 1922 |
| | | A triumphant Mussolini arrives in Rome on the overnight train from Milan to take up his appointment as prime minister | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Columns of blackshirts, brought into Rome for the day, parade before Mussolini and the king | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Howard Carter exposes a flight of steps in the Valley of the Kings and comes to a barrier bearing the name Tutankhamun | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The British Broadcasting company launches a regular broadcasting service from the Marconi 2LO studio in London | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Conservatives under Andrew Bonar Law win 347 seats in the British general election, giving them a large majority | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Labour party, winning 142 seats and beating the Liberals into third place, becomes for the first time the official UK opposition | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Erskine Childers is sent before a firing squad in the Irish Free State for possession of a revolver | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Valéry's collection Charmes includes probably his best-known poem, 'Le Cimetière marin' | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Lenin has a second stroke, putting him finally out of action in political terms | |
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| 1922 |
| | | With the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the 26 counties of southern Ireland formally become the Irish Free State | |
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| 1922 |
| | | William Thomas Cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State | |
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| 1922 |
| | | At a congress in Moscow four soviet republics (Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Republic) agree to unite | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Canadian physiologists Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin from the pancreas for the treatment of diabetes | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The Czech novelist Jaroslav Hasek dies with his masterpiece, The Good Soldier Schweik, incomplete | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Benito Mussolini sets up a Fascist Grand Council as a token assembly to conceal his authoritarian rule | |
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| 1923 |
| | | De Valera and the IRA lay down their arms, bringing to an end the Irish civil war | |
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| 1923 |
| | | France, with Belgian support, occupies Germany's industrial heartland in the Ruhr | |
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| 1923 |
| | | With Mussolini already installed as Il Duce, his party wins 65% of the votes in a general election | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes his first collection of poems, Fervor de Buenos Aires ('Fervour of Buenos Aires') | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Lenin's third stroke prevents the publication of his Testament, which urges upon the party the removal of Stalin | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Military leader Miguel Primo de Rivera takes power in Spain in a military coup | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Henry Luce has an immediate success with a new magazine, calling it simply Time | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Bessie Smith has a big hit with her first record, Downhearted Blues, selling two million copies within a year | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The African National Congress (ANC) is formed in South Africa by renaming the South African National Native Congress | |
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| c. 1923 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp completes his large glass construction The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even | |
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| 1923 |
| | | De Valera and his followers do well in elections to the Dáil but decline to take their seats | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Wallace Stevens' first collection, Harmonium, sells 100 copies | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Stanley Baldwin becomes UK premier and leader of the Conservative party after ill health compels Bonar Law to resign | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Rhodesia becomes a self-governing colony with political power exclusively in the hands of European settlers | |
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