Lloyd George, fighting the British general election as head of a coalition, devastates the Liberal opposition

Returning from active service with the Royal Navy, Erskine Childers devotes his energies to Sinn Fein and Irish independence

Mussolini founds the Fasci di Combattimento, dedicated to opposing the Socialist party

Adolf Hitler joins the tiny German Workers' party, the members of which share his own virulent anti-semitism

Nancy Astor, as MP for Plymouth, becomes the first woman to take her seat in Britain's House of Commons

A plebiscite in Schleswig establishes the border between Denmark and Germany

The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees women the right to vote

A Communist uprising in the Ruhr is suppressed with difficulty by the German army

The republican party Sinn Fein is unopposed in southern Ireland's first general election, and so wins every available seat in the Dail

Mussolini and 35 of his Fascist colleagues win seats in the Italian parliament

The Sinn Fein members of southern Ireland's new parliament assemble on their own, under the name Dáil Eireann (Assembly of Ireland)

The Young Kikuyu Association is formed in Kenya, to fight for African rights and the restoration of Kikuyu land

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party, which now has about 3000 members

Mao Zedong leads a delegation to the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai

Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to sit in Canada's parliament

In elections to the Dáil the pro-treaty faction of Collins and Griffith defeats the opposition, led by de Valera

Lloyd George loses his majority in the House of Commons when the Conservatives vote in a Carlton Club meeting to withdraw from his coalitiion

The Labour party, winning 142 seats and beating the Liberals into third place, becomes for the first time the official UK opposition

With Mussolini already installed as Il Duce, his party wins 65% of the votes in a general election

The African National Congress (ANC) is formed in South Africa by renaming the South African National Native Congress

De Valera and his followers do well in elections to the Dáil but decline to take their seats

Margaret Bondfield is the first woman to be chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress

Plaid Cymru, the 'party of Wales', is founded in a temperance hotel in Pwllheli during the National Eisteddfod

The RSS party, from which the present Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) derives, is established in India by Keshava Baliram Hedgewar

A.J. Cook, leader of Britain's miners, insists 'Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day'