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| 1916 |
| | | Haiti becomes a US protectorate, under the terms of a treaty signed in the previous year | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The election of Hipolito Irigoyen as president begins sixteen years of radical government in Argentina | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Woodrow Wilson sends the marines to maintain order when the Dominican Republic slips towards civil war | |
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| 1916 |
| | | After an 800-mile journey in an open boat Ernest Shackleton returns to rescue his stranded colleagues in the South Shetlands | |
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| 1917 |
| | | The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans US citizenship and a popularly elected Senate and House of Representatives | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Diego Rivera, returning from his study of Italian frescoes, begins the first of his influential murals depicting Mexican history | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes his first collection of poems, Fervor de Buenos Aires ('Fervour of Buenos Aires') | |
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| 1924 |
| | | 20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems | |
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