- January 10
- France-Saarland forms. [1]
- January 15
- Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP. [1]
- January 16
- Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council. [1]
- General M Froense replaces Leon Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense. [1]
- January 20
- USSR and Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR. [1]
- January 24
- Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island, New York, USA. [1]
- Rickard Sandler follows Hjalmar Branting as premier of Sweden. [1]
- January 29
- British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader. [1]
- January 30
- Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople. [1]
- January 31
- Premier Ahmed Zogu (Zogu I) becomes President of Albania. [1] (February 1 [494.15])
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- February 1
- First national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin. [1]
- February 2
- Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism and socialism. [1]
- February 9
- German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France. [1]
- February 12
- Estonia forbids Communist Party. [1]
- February 14
- State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed. [1]
- February 21
- Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg. [1]
- February 24
- Thermite explosive first used to break up ice jam, Waddington, New York, USA. [1]
- February 26
- Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government. [1]
- February 27
- Adolf Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich, Germany. [1]
- March 2
- Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage. [1]
- SDAP-Second-Faction (Dutch Socialists) of parliament demands drastic disarmament. [1]
- March 4
- Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as US President, broadcast live on 21 radio stations. [1]
- Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US. [1]
- March 6
- Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmédy and Sankt Vith. [1]
- March 12
- British government of Stanley Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement. [1]
- March 18
- Eight 60-MPH tornadoes speed through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee killing 689. [1]
- March 19
- Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop. [1]
- March 21
- Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar. [1]
- March 30
- Josef Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians. [1]
- April 1
- First transmission of Danish state radio. [1]
- April 3
- Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde. [1]
- April 5
- Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election. [1]
- April 6
- First film shown on an airplane (British Air). [1]
- April 10
- Czarina re-christens Stalingrad. [1]
- Scribners publishes book The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. [1]
- April 11
- Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco. [1]
- April 17
- Paul Painlevé follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier. [1]
- April 18
- World's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois, USA. [1]
- April 21
- Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR. [1]
- April 25
- Paul von Hindenburg elected second President of Germany. [1]
- April 26
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for So big. [1]
- April 28
- Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army. [1]
- Netherlands and Great Britain return to gold standard. [1]
- May 1
- Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony. [1]
- May 4
- League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage. [1]
- May 8
- French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco. [1]
- May 11
- Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR. [1]
- May 12
- Uzbekistan and Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics. [1]
- May 21
- George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt. [1]
- May 30
- British mariners shoot on demonstrators. [1]
- June 3
- Goodyear airship Pilgrim makes first flight (first with enclosed cabin). [1]
- June 6
- Walter Percy Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation. [1] [5]
- June 23
- Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre, Wyoming, USA). [1]
- June 26
- In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ted Rogers Senior invents the alternating-current tube, facilitating plug-in batteryless radios. [457]
- July 1
- Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in United Kingdom. [1]
- July 4
- 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, USA collapses. [1]
- July 10
- In Dayton, Tennessee, the "Monkey Trial" begins with John Thomas Scopes, a high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. [1] [129]
- USSR's official news agency TASS is established. [1]
- July 21
- John Thomas Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, and fined US$100. Scopes' lawyer had recommended a guilty verdict, to allow for an appeal. In 1927, Tennessee Supreme Court overturns the verdict. [129] (July 24 [1])
- July 31
- Unemployment Insurance Act passes in England. [1]
- August 4
- US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation. [1]
- August 26
- Ted Rogers of Canada manufactures the world's first commercial alternating current tube. [457]
- August 28
- Banco de Mexico (Mexican state bank) is founded. [493.34] [520.52]
- September 3
- Dirigible Shenandoah crashes near Caldwell, Ohio, USA; 13 die. [1]
- September 25
- SS City of Rome merchant ship rams and sinks USS S-51 submarine, killing 33. [1155.1034]
- September 26
- Italian submarine Sebastiano Veniero lost off Sicily with 54 dead. [1]
- October 2
- John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system. [5]
- October 16
- In Locarno, Switzerland, the Pact of Locarno is signed by Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Italy, Poland, and Czechslovakia. The nations agree to a mutual guarantee of existing borders, and to make peaceful settlements of disputes. [10]
- In Locarno, the Treaty of Mutual Guarantee is signed by Great Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy. Germany and Belgium, and Germany and France agree to not attack or invade each other. [10]
- France and Poland sign a Treaty of Mutual Guarantee, to immediately aid the other if attacked by Germany. [10]
- October 27
- Water skis patented by Fred Waller. [1]
- November 11
- Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays. [1]
- December 1
- Treaty of Locarno signed. [1]
- December 5
- German government of Luther falls. [1]
- December 6
- Italy, Britain and Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy). [1]
- December 10
- George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize. [1]
- December 11
- Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas. [1]
- December 12
- Arthur Heinman coins term "motel", opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo, California. [1]
- Last Qajar Shah of Persia deposed; Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes Shah of Persia. [1]
- December 17
- Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact. [1]
- December 23
- Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah. [1]
- December 26
- Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar. [1]
- December 31
- 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry. [1]
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