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The Sinn Fein members of southern Ireland's new parliament assemble on their own, under the name Dáil Eireann (Assembly of Ireland)
The Young Kikuyu Association is formed in Kenya, to fight for African rights and the restoration of Kikuyu land
Russian author Maxim Gorky goes abroad for medical treatment and lives for the next seven years in Italy
Envoys sent to London by de Valera agree independence for southern Ireland as the Irish Free State, with Dominion status
The Anglo-Irish Treaty, agreed in London, ends the war between the British army and the IRA
The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret
The British parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish treaty, but de Valera repudiates it and resigns as president of the Dáil
Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson
The British airship R-38 bursts into flames on its fourth flight and crashes into the Humber
Abd-el-Krim wins a sensational victory over Spanish forces in Morocco and gains control of the Rif
Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere
Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI
The Marconi company in England pioneers a regular broadcasting service from its 2MT radio station near Chelmsford
Egypt becomes an independent kingdom, subject to a British military presence to protect the Suez canal
Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British in India as an agitator and is sentenced to six years in prison
French fashion designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel introduces a very successful perfume, calling it Chanel No. 5
Lenin creates a powerful new post for Joseph Stalin, as General Secretary of the Communist Party
Lenin has a stroke, removing him for five months from active control of party and state
Marina Tsvetaeva completes an anti-Soviet cycle of poems, The Encampment of the Swans
William Walton and Edith Sitwell give a private performance of their entertainment Façade, setting poems by Sitwell
In elections to the Dáil the pro-treaty faction of Collins and Griffith defeats the opposition, led by de Valera
Germany is the first nation to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Russia
US golfer Walter Hagen wins the first of his four victories in the British Open
Bitter war breaks out between factions of the IRA supporting and opposing the Anglo-Irish Treaty
