1920s
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| Centuries: | 19th century - 20th century - 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 |
[change] The most important events
- Golden Twenty
- 1920 - Prohibition begins in the United States.
- 1922 - Howard Carter discovers the tomb of the Egyptian King Tutankhamun.
- 1922 - Southern Ireland gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1929 - The Black Tuesday
[change] Important people
[change] World leaders
- Prime Minister Stanley Bruce (Australia)
- Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
- President Sun Yat-sen (Republic of China)
- President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
- President Friedrich Ebert (Germany)
- President Paul von Hindenburg (Germany)
- Ahmad Shah Qajar of Qajar dynasty (Persia/Iran)
- Reza Shah Pahlavi of Pahlavi Dynasty (Iran)
- King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
- Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
- President W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
- President Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) (Turkey)
- Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
- Pope Pius XI
- Józef Piłsudski (Poland)
- Vladimir Lenin (Soviet Union)
- Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
- King Alfonso XIII (Spain)
- King George V (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister David Lloyd George (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (United Kingdom)
- President Woodrow Wilson (United States)
- President Warren G. Harding (United States)
- President Calvin Coolidge (United States)
- President Herbert Hoover (United States)
- Charlie Chaplin (entertainer)
- Albert Einstein (German physicist)
- Paul von Hindenburg (president of Germany)
- King George V (King of the United Kingdom)
- Vladimir Lenin (leader of the USSR)
- Pope Pius XI (Pope in the 1920s)
- Joseph Stalin (leader of the USSR)
- King Victor Emmanuel III (king of Italy)
