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Stanley Spencer completes his large visionary canvas The Resurrection: Cookham
28-year old Staffordshire potter Clarice Cliff launches a range of highly coloured geometric designs that she calls Bizarre Ware
English typographer Eric Gill designs a type face without serifs, commissioned by Monotype and to be known as Gill Sans-Serif
The Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte has his first one-man show, at the Galerie Centaure in Brussels
French author François Mauriac publishes a novel of marital claustrophobia, Thérèse Desqueyroux
Stalin expels from the Communist party his main opponents, Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky
Mussolini's treaty with Ahmed Zogu gives Fascist Italy a dominant position in Albania
Henry Williamson wins a wide readership with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon
Irish Free State president Kevin O'Higgins is murdered by members of the IRA on his way to mass
Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality
Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel
De Valera and his party, the Fianna Fáil, finally take their seats in the Dáil
Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse
Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck
Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock
Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic
English psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis completes a thirty-year project, his 7-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex
English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers a mould that selectively kills bacteria, and calls it penicillin
W.B. Yeats's new volume of poems, The Tower, includes 'Sailing to Byzantium'
Maxim Gorky returns to the USSR to a rapturous reception after seven years abroad
Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford
The age limit for British women to vote is lowered to 21, finally giving them parity with men
