Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 - 1920 - 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925
Events
- January 7 - Forces of Russian White general Kolcak surrender in Krasnojarsk[?]
- January 9 - Britain announces it will build 100.000 homes for war veterans
- January 10 - League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
- January 15 - Prohibition goes into effect
- January 16 - Prohibition begins in USA. Many liquor-loving Americans move to France.
- January 16 - Allies demand that Netherlands extradite German Kaiser who has fled there
- January 19 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations
- January 23 - Netherlands refuses to extradite Kaiser
- January 28 - Spanish legion[?] is founded and stationed in North Africa to fight rebels in Morocco
- January 28 - Turkey gives up Ottoman empire and non-turkish areas.
- February 1 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
- February 2 - Estonia declares its independence from Russia
- February 2 - France occupies Memel
- February 9 - League of Nations gives Spitzbergen[?] to Norway
- February 17 - Woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to mental hospital, where she claims she is Anastasia
- February 14 - The League of Women Voters[?] is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- February 22 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race[?] track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
- February 24 - Adolf Hitler presents his national socialist[?] program in Munich
- March -– World's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting[?] takes over when Nils Edén[?] resigns.
- March 13-March 17 - Wolfgang Kapp fails in his coup attempt in Germany due to public resistance and a general strike
- March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify Versailles Treaty
- March 23 - Admiral Horthy declares that Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the throne
- March 26 - German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area
- March 31 - Government of Ireland Act presented in British parliament
- April 2 - German army marches to Ruhr to fight Ruhr Red Army
- April 4 - Riots between Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem.
- April 6 - French troops occupy Frankfurt
- April 19 - Germany and Soviet Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war
- April 23 - National council in Turkey denounces the government of sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution
- April 24 - Russian-Polish War[?]: Polish troops attack Russia
- May 7 - Russian-Polish War[?]: Polish troops occupy Kiev.
- May 16 - Referendum in Switzerland is favorable to joining League of Nations
- May 16 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
- May 17 - French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany
- May 17 - First flight of KLM, Dutch air company, from Amsterdam to London.
- May 27 - Thomas Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia
- May 30 - Jeanne d'Arc is canonized.
- June 4 - Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population in Treaty of Trianon.
- June 12 - Red Army retakes Kiev
- June 15 - New border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark
- June 22 - Greece attack Turkish troops
- July 2 - Soviet Russia attacks Poland
- July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.
- July 12 - Soviet Russia recognizes independent Lithuania
- July 13 - London County Council[?] bars foreigners from council jobs
- July 22 - Poland sues for peace with Soviet Russia
- August 2 - British parliament passes bill to restore order in Ireland, suspending jury trials
- August 3 - Catholics riot in Belfast
- August 10 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives signed the Treaty of Sevres[?].
- August 11 - Soviet Russia recognizes independent Estonia and Latvia.
- August 13 - August 21 - Red Army is defeated at the gates of Warsav[?]
- August 15 - Town Hall of Templemore[?], Ireland, is burned down during the riots
- August 18 - Women gain the right to vote in the United States.
- September 8 - Gabriele D'Annunzio declares Fiumen[?] free state
- September 16 - Bomb in Wall Street kills 35, hundreds wounded
- September 22 - Flying Squad[?] formed in London Metropolitan Police[?]
- September 29 - First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – Westinghouse radio costs $10
- September 29 - Adolf Hitler's first public political speech in Austria
- November 2 - Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox in the U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote
- November 2 - Westinghouse company begins its radio program in Pittsburg, USA
- November 11 - Unknown Soldier[?] buried in Westminster Abbey
- November 17 - Council of League of Nations accepts the constitution of Danzig free state[?]
- November 21 - IRA bomb kills 14 policemen in Ireland.
- December 5 - Referendum in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy
- December 11 - Martial Law[?] in Ireland
- December 16 - Finland joins League of Nations
- December 16 - Earthquake causes landslide in Gansu province, China - 180.000 dead
- December 23 - United Kingdom and France ratify[?] the border between French-held Syria and British-held Palestine.
- France prohibits selling of contraceptives
- Roman von Ungern-Sternberg[?] conquers Urga and declares himself as a ruler of Mongolia
- Kurd rebellion in Turkey begins
- Johnny Torrio[?] invites Al Capone to Chicago from New York
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 2 - Isaac Asimov, author
- January 6 - Early Wynn[?], Baseball Hall of Famer
- January 6 - Sun Myung Moon, evangelist
- January 19 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar[?], United Nations Secretary General
- January 20 - Federico Fellini, italian film director (+ 1993)
- January 20 - DeForest Kelly[?], actor († 1999)
- January 20 - John O'Connor[?], Cardinal of New York City (+ 2000)
- January 23 - Ray Abrams[?], tenor saxophonist
- January 23 - Gottfried Böhm[?], architect
- January 27 - Frankie Albert[?], American football star (+ 2002)
- January 30 - Delbert Mann[?], director
- January 31 - Paul Warnke[?], diplomat (+ 2001)
- February 7 - An Wang, computer pioneer (+ 1990)
- February 8 - Lana Turner, actress (+ 1995)
- February 11 - Billy Halop[?], actor.
- February 11 - Daniel Francis Galouye[?], American science fiction author.
- February 11 - Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-1952).
- February 11 - Paul Peter Piech, artist.
- February 18 - Jack Palance[?], actor
- February 18 - Bill Cullen[?], game show host (+ 1990)
- February 26 - Tony Randall[?], actor
- February 29 - Howard Nemerov[?], American, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
- March 3 - Roland Searle[?], illustrator
- March 3 - James Doohan, actor
- March 14 - Hank Ketcham[?], cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) (+ 2001)
- March 15 - Lawrence Sanders[?], novelist (+ 1998)
- March 16 - Leo McKern, actor (+ 2002)
- March 17 - Mujibur Rahman[?], Prime Minister of Bangladesh[?] (+ 1975)
- April 1 - Toshirô Mifune, actor (+ 1997)
- April 2 - Jack Webb, actor, director, producer (+ 1982)
- April 7 - Ravi Shankar, musician
- April 11 - Peter O'Donnell, creator of Modesty Blaise.
- May 6 - Ross Hunter[?], producer (+ 1996)
- May 9 - Richard Adams, author
- May 18 - Karol Wojtyla, future pope John Paul II
- May 23 - Helen O'Connell[?], singer
- May 26 - Peggy Lee, singer (+ 2002)
- May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, film director (+ 1989)
- June 12 - Dave Berg, cartoonist for Mad Magazine
- August 16 – Charles Bukowski, American writer
- August 22 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer
- September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, automotive engineer
- September 22 - William H. Riker, political scientist
- October 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (+ 2000)
- October 15 - Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather
- October 31 - Fritz Walter, football player
Deaths
- January 7 –Kolcak[?], Russian White general; executed
- January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter, sculptor
- February 20 - Robert Peary, explorer
- June 14 - Max Weber father of the science of sociology
- January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter, sculptor
- October 20 - Max Bruch, composer
- October 24 - The Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, née Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia[?], only daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia
- Balganghadar Tilak
- George Ernest Morisson, Australian adventurer, journalist
Nobel Prizes
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