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| 1926 |
| | | Rudolf von Laban publishes a new system of dance notation, which becomes known in English as Labanotation | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Mies van der Rohe designs a monument in Berlin for the Spartacus leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg | |
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| 1926 |
| | | English choreographer Frederick Ashton creates his first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Béla Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin has its premiere (in Cologne) some eight years after he began work on it | |
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| 1926 |
| | | The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations | |
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| 1926 |
| | | 23-year-old US crooner Bing Crosby makes his first record, singing I''ve Got the Girl with the Paul Whiteman band | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Jean Sibelius's tone-poemTapiola has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Walter Gropius designs buildings in Dessau as a new home for the Bauhaus | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Leos Janacek's opera The Makropoulos Affair, based on the play by Karel Capek, has its first performance in Brno | |
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| 1926 |
| | | US author Ernest Hemingway succeeds with his second novel, The Sun also Rises (also known as Fiesta) | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Stanley Spencer completes his large visionary canvas The Resurrection: Cookham | |
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| 1927 |
| | | 28-year old Staffordshire potter Clarice Cliff launches a range of highly coloured geometric designs that she calls Bizarre Ware | |
|  | 'Berries' candlestick, Clarice Cliff, c.1935
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
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| 1927 |
| | | Ernst Krenek's jazz opera Jonny Strikes Up has its premiere in Leipzig | |
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| 1927 |
| | | US dancer and choreographer Martha Graham opens a School of Contemporary Dance in New York | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Clara Bow stars in It, the silent film that gives her her famous nickname – the 'It' Girl | |
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| 1927 |
| | | English typographer Eric Gill designs a type face without serifs, commissioned by Monotype and to be known as Gill Sans-Serif | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Communists seize power in Jiangxi province and establish the first soviet republic in China | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Austrian director Fritz Lang creates a wildly ambitious silent film, Metropolis, the commercial failure of which bankrupts its studio | |
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| 1927 |
| | | The Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte has his first one-man show, at the Galerie Centaure in Brussels | |
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| 1927 |
| | | French author François Mauriac publishes a novel of marital claustrophobia, Thérèse Desqueyroux | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Mae West is sentenced to eight days in gaol when Sex, written, produced and starred in by herself on Broadway, is judged to be obscene | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Right-wing Chinese army officer Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) launches an anti-Communist coup in the Canton region | |
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| c. 1927 |
| | | British archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovers the treasures of the royal cemetery at Ur | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Werner Heisenberg publishes his Uncertainty Principle, declaring that it is impossible to define precisely the position and momentum of a sub-atomic particle | |
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| 1927 |
| | | The Australian parliament moves from Melbourne to a temporary Parliament House in the new federal capital at Canberra | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Stalin expels from the Communist party his main opponents, Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Mussolini's treaty with Ahmed Zogu gives Fascist Italy a dominant position in Albania | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill write Mahagonny Songspiel for the Baden-Baden music festival | |
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| 1927 |
| | | US author Thornton Wilder achieves world-wide success with his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey | |
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| 1927 |
| | | US aviator Charles Lindbergh, in his single-engine plane Spirit of St Louis, flies solo across the Atlantic from New York to Paris | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Achmed Sukarno becomes the first chairman of the new Indonesian Nationalist Party | |
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| 1927 |
| | | US golfer Walter Hagen wins his fifth PGA Championship, and the fourth in succession | |
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| c. 1927 |
| | | The fossilized tooth of a human, half a million years old and known now as Peking Man, is discovered at a site near Beijing | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Henry Williamson wins a wide readership with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Irish Free State president Kevin O'Higgins is murdered by members of the IRA on his way to mass | |
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