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Events relating to asia
The British commander Stanley Maude captures Baghdad from the Turks
T.E. Lawrence and an Arab force surprise the Turkish garrison at Aqaba and win an overwhelming victory
Edmund Allenby takes the Palestinian town of Gaza, at the third British attempt
The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders
from June - Faisal and T.E. Lawrence pin down a Turkish army in a campaign of guerrilla warfare
After a victory at the historic battle site of Megiddo, Allenby captures the city of Damascus
An armistice is signed between Turkey and the Allies on the warship Agamemnon in the Greek port of Mudros
More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk leads resistance to the Greek invasion of western Turkey
Afghanistan finally achieves international recognition as an independent nation
A national congress in Damascus proclaims Faisal king of an independent Syria
The Japanese potter Shoji Hamada accompanies Bernard Leach on his return to England
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is elected president of Turkey's new Grand National Assembly
The Haganah is set up as an underground military organization to protect Jewish settlements in Palestine
French intervention in Syria forces Faisal off the throne and out of the country
League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine
League of Nations mandates give France responsibility for Syria and Lebanon
A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire
The sultan of Turkey signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allies but it is rejected by the new nationalist government
An army officer, Reza Khan, becomes war minister after seizing control of Tehran with his Cossack brigade
The first traces are found of a major but entirely forgotten civilization in the Indus valley
Abdullah ibn Hussein, of the Hashemite family, becomes emir of the new province of Transjordan
Mao Zedong leads a delegation to the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai
Faisal, having lost Syria, is given the throne in the British mandated territory of Iraq
Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British in India as an agitator and is sentenced to six years in prison
