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| 1908 |
| | | Gideons International place their first bible in a hotel bedroom, in Montana, USA | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Albert Schweitzer and his wife become missionaries at Lambaréné in west Africa | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Assemblies of God is established as the largest affiliation of Pentecostal churches | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Giacomo della Chiesa is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XV | |
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| 1916 June 5 |
| | | Sharif Hussein, the emir of Mecca, proclaims himself the leader of the Muslim world, thus launching an Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The Swiss theologian Karl Barth publishes his influential Commentary on Romans, taking St Paul's epistle as his text | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Haganah is set up as an underground military organization to protect Jewish settlements in Palestine | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI | |
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| 1923 |
| | | In I and Thou the Austrian theologian Martin Buber interprets religion in terms of the subjective experience of interpersonal relationships | |
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