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De Valera and his followers do well in elections to the Dáil but decline to take their seats
Wallace Stevens' first collection, Harmonium, sells 100 copies
Stanley Baldwin becomes UK premier and leader of the Conservative party after ill health compels Bonar Law to resign
Rhodesia becomes a self-governing colony with political power exclusively in the hands of European settlers
Albert Roussel's opera-ballet Padmâvâti is premiered in Paris
Robert Frost publishes a new collection of poems, New Hampshire
The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France
The US poet e.e. cummings publishes his first collection, Tulips and Chimneys
German inflation reaches fantasy levels, at 242 million marks to the dollar
Arnold Schoenberg's Suite for piano is his first piece entirely in the 12-note serial method
US poet Edna St Vincent Millay publishes The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
Sean O'Casey's first play The Shadow of a Gunman is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin
Maxim Gorky publishes My Universities, completing his autobiographical trilogy
Germany's communists organise uprisings in Saxony, Thuringia and Hamburg
The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) officially comes into being, with a newly written constitution
The Treaty of Lausanne, with more favourable terms than those negotiated at Sèvres, finally brings peace between Turkey and the Allies
In I and Thou the Austrian theologian Martin Buber interprets religion in terms of the subjective experience of interpersonal relationships
Warren Harding dies little more than half way through his term of office as US president
Warren Harding is succeeded as US president by his vice-president, Calvin Coolidge
The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body?
US dramatist Elmer Rice establishes his reputation with The Adding Machine, an expressionistic drama about the machine age
Le Corbusier publishes an influential collection of his articles under the title Towards a New Architecture
Vegemite is launched in Melbourne as Australia's answer to Marmite
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York
Margaret Bondfield is the first woman to be chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress
