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The sultan of Turkey signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allies but it is rejected by the new nationalist government
Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to sit in Canada's parliament
The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile
The Treaty of Lausanne, with more favourable terms than those negotiated at Sèvres, finally brings peace between Turkey and the Allies
Margaret Bondfield is the first woman to be chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress
Turkey becomes a republic with Atatürk as president and Ankara as its new capital
The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara
Alvaro Obregón, the leading figure in Mexico's anti-clerical revolution, is shot by a Roman Catholic assassin
Margaret Bondfield becomes the first woman to sit in the British cabinet, as minister of labour
US aviator Amelia Earhart lands in Ireland 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland, to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Ernst Lubitsch has a great success with Trouble in Paradise, a Hollywood comedy about villainy and romance in Paris
John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York
In I, Claudius the autobiography of the Roman emperor is ghost-written by Robert Graves
Germany takes control of Romania, to secure the country's rich oil fields
Mussolini plans a new Roman empire, reaching like the first one round the entire Mediterranean
Hungary, Romania and Slovakia sign the Tripartite Pact, joining the war on the German side
Greta Garbo receives terrible reviews for Two Faced Woman, which turns out to be her last film and the beginning of a long retirement
Regina Jonas, the first woman to be ordained a rabbi, ministers tirelessly for two years in the Theresienstadt concentration camp until she herself is murdered
Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star in the first of many films together, Woman of the Year
A rich hoard of Roman silver is unearthed near Mildenhall, in Suffolk
Romania changes sides to fight with the Red Army against Germany
The Soviets instal a puppet government in Romania while the fight continues against Germany
The British government bans hereditary ruler Seretse Khama from Bechuanaland because he has married a white woman
William Wyler directs Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, a beguiling comedy about a princess's romance in Rome
Ruth Ellis, sentenced to death for the murder of an unfaithful lover, is the last woman to be hanged in Britain
