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| 1920 November 11 |
| | | The body of an Unknown Warrior, selected at random from British war graves, is buried at the entrance to Westminster Abbey | |
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| 1920 November 11 |
| | | The body of an unknown French soldier is laid to rest in a chapel within the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and a few weeks later is buried at ground level beneath the arch | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Marie Stopes and her husband set up in London a Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control, the first of its kind in Britain | |
|  | Marie Stopes mobile birth control clinic
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1922 |
| | | French fashion designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel introduces a very successful perfume, calling it Chanel No. 5 | |
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| 1922 |
| | | British manufacturer Herbert Austin launches Britain's first car for the popular market, the Austin Seven or 'Baby Austin' | |
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| 1923 |
| | | German inflation reaches fantasy levels, at 242 million marks to the dollar | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Vegemite is launched in Melbourne as Australia's answer to Marmite | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Rudolf Hess suggests to Hitler the policy of Lebensraum or 'living space' for the German people | |
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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 |
| | | A new German currency, the Reichsmark, is launched with the value of a trillion old marks | |
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