Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford

The age limit for British women to vote is lowered to 21, finally giving them parity with men

Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of a semi-autobiographical trilogy

English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London

Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois

Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov publishes the first section of And Quiet Flows the Don

Stalin achieves complete personal control in the USSR after removing all his rivals from the Politburo

The Kellogg-Briand Pact is drawn up by the US and France as a pledge to renounce war

The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens to great acclaim in Berlin

García Lorca wins fame with his book of poems Gypsy Ballads

Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff

Eric Fenby devotes himself to Frederick Delius, taking dictation to write down the scores of the blind composer's new works

Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is performed in Warsaw and brings him international fame

All non-Fascist political activity is banned in Italy, parliament being replaced with the Fascist Grand Council

Norwegian figure-skater Sonja Henie wins the first of three individual Olympic gold medals in successive games

D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence

Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall

Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness is the first to deal openly with a lesbian subject

English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London

British inventor John Logie Baird secures a patent for fibreoptic imaging

The SS, which has evolved from Hitler's personal bodyguard, is put under the command of Heinrich Himmler

The Tintin comic strip, by Hergé, begins with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

Stalin concludes his long-standing rivalry with Trotsky, expelling him from the USSR three years after removing him from the Politburo

The Lateran Treaty, between the Holy See and the state of Italy, establishes the Vatican City as a free state within the wider nation

French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a suffocatingly claustrophobic relationsip