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| 1924 |
| | | Winston Churchill, accepting the position of chancellor of the exchequer in Baldwin's cabinet, returns to the Conservative party | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Lenin's death is followed by an intense power struggle in the Kremlin between Stalin, Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev | |
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| 1924 |
| | | A general election brings in Britain's first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, at the head of a minority government | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Following the death of Sir Ratan Tata in 1918, his widow sells York house and its contents to the Twickenham Urban District Council for use as council offices. | |
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| 1924 |
| | | George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its first performance, at the Aeolian Hall in New York | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Clarence Birdseye, having eaten frozen fish in the Arctic, launches Birdseye Seafoods in New York | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Britain's most prestigious steeplechase, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, is run for the first time | |
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| 1924 |
| | | James Hertzog's National Party, committed to protecting white privilege, comes to power in South Africa | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Sean O'Casey's second play Juno and the Paycock is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin | |
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| 1924 |
| | | The Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is murdered by Mussolini's Fascists | |
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