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Nancy Astor, as MP for Plymouth, becomes the first woman to take her seat in Britain's House of Commons
The port of Fiume, belonging to Yugoslavia, is seized by Gabriele d'Annunzio and 300 Italian volunteers
Marcel Duchamp adds a moustache and beard to a postcard of the Mona Lisa, and gives it the subtly offensive French title LHOOQ
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany
A White army, advancing on Moscow, is stopped about 250 miles from the city
A White army occupies hills overlooking Petrograd before being driven back by Trotsky
The phrase Abstract Expressionism is first used, describing the work of Wassily Kandinsky
Darius Milhaud provides the score for Jean Cocteau's pantomime ballet Le Boeuf sur le toit
John Singer Sargent completes Gassed, a powerful image of one of the particular horrors of the recent war
The prime minister of Poland, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, resigns his post so as to concentrate on his concert career
The delegates to the peace conference in Paris, mainly concerned with the terms to be imposed on Germany, hold their first session
Delegates to the Paris peace conference unanimously establish the League of Nations
German sailors scuttle every one of the fifty warships held by the British in Scapa Flow
The peace treaty with Germany, ending the world war, is signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
The Versailles Treaty makes Danzig (or Gdansk) a free city (from 10 January 1920), under the protection of the League of Nations
The Versailles Treaty provides a corridor of land to give Poland access to Danzig and the Baltic, thereby dividing two parts of Germany
The German-speaking inhabitants of South Tirol are incorporated within Italy under the Versailles peace terms
German East Africa is to be governed by Britain as Tanganyika, under a League of Nations mandate
After several less successful novels, the French writer Colette makes her reputation with Chéri
A plebiscite in Schleswig establishes the border between Denmark and Germany
Vladimir Tatlin's model for a gigantic Monument to the Third International becomes one of the most significant examples of Constructivism
Bristol-born actor Cary Grant moves to the USA with a troupe of touring tumblers
Destour is formed as a nationalist party in Tunisia, demanding full independence from France
The Japanese potter Shoji Hamada accompanies Bernard Leach on his return to England
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is elected president of Turkey's new Grand National Assembly
