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The Meccano company launches the first of its Hornby model trains
Sapper's patriotic hero makes his first appearance, taking on the villainous Carl Peterson in Bull-dog Drummond
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret launches and edits a radical architectural journal, L'Esprit Nouveau
The Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopts the simpler Le Corbusier as a pseudonym in L'Esprit Nouveau
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA
The Government of Ireland Act provides for separate devolved parliaments in southern Ireland and the six counties of Ulster
The Marconi studio in the English town of Chelmsford broadcasts Dame Nellie Melba live to Europe and to ships on the Atlantic
A group of composers in Paris - Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre - become known as 'les Six'
The brutal behaviour of the British police reinforcements, the Black and Tans, aggravates the violence in Ireland
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The civil war ends as the last White army on Russian soil escapes from the Crimea
The IRA and the British security forces clash during a violent 'Bloody Sunday' in Dublin
Italian troops drive Gabriele d'Annunzio and his followers from Fiume, which they have occupied for more than a year
League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine
League of Nations mandates give France responsibility for Syria and Lebanon
A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire
The body of an Unknown Warrior, selected at random from British war graves, is buried at the entrance to Westminster Abbey
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
With massive force, and huge casualties, Lenin puts an end to a naval mutiny at Kronstadt
Marie Stopes and her husband set up in London a Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control, the first of its kind in Britain
In a major economic U-turn, Lenin's New Economic Policy allows peasants to hold markets and sell the surplus of their product
Some 50,000 peasants are herded into Russia's first concentration camps
Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV
The republican party Sinn Fein is unopposed in southern Ireland's first general election, and so wins every available seat in the Dail
Mussolini and 35 of his Fascist colleagues win seats in the Italian parliament
