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A Communist uprising in the Ruhr is suppressed with difficulty by the German army
Artists dedicated to celebrating the Canadian landscape come together as the Group of Seven
The Haganah is set up as an underground military organization to protect Jewish settlements in Palestine
Charles Ives publishes his Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60, usually known as the Concord Sonata
The German Workers' Party, with Adolf Hitler as one of its leading members, changes its name to the Nazi party
French intervention in Syria forces Faisal off the throne and out of the country
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
A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda
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
Gustav Holst's Hymn of Jesus has its premiere in London, conducted by the composer
New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies publishes a pioneering text book, Plastic Surgery of the Face
Douglas Fairbanks makes the first of his swashbuckling adventure movies, The Mark of Zorro
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks is a Hollywood sensation after a three-year affair
Warren Harding wins the US presidential election for the Republicans
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
Ten years of violent revolution in Mexico are brought to and end in a successful coup by Alvaro Obregón
Italian troops drive Gabriele d'Annunzio and his followers from Fiume, which they have occupied for more than a year
On his return to Britain from the far east, Bernard Leach sets up a pottery studio in St Ives
