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)