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| 1920 |
| | | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is elected president of Turkey's new Grand National Assembly | |
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| 1920 August |
| | | A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The Treaty of Lausanne, with more favourable terms than those negotiated at Sèvres, finally brings peace between Turkey and the Allies | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Turkey becomes a republic with Atatürk as president and Ankara as its new capital | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications | |
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| 1940 May |
| | | A German army races west through northern France, aiming to cut off the Allied troops in Belgium | |
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| 1941 |
| | | British author Rebecca West publishes an account of Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon | |
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| 1944 January 22 |
| | | In Operation Shingle an Allied force lands at Anzio, on the west coast of Italy behind the German lines | |
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| 1945 May 4 |
| | | British general Bernard Montgomery receives the surrender of German forces in the north and west of Europe | |
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