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Vatican City1929Elections
The Lateran Treaty resolved the Roman Question and established Vatican City as an independent state, a pivotal political settlement of the interwar period.
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. - summary
United States1928Wars
The Pact outlawing war as a political instrument symbolized interwar optimism and remains a landmark in international law despite its ineffectiveness.
The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may… - summary
China1927Wars
The split between Nationalist and Communist forces initiated a two-decade conflict that would reshape East Asia and culminate in Communist victory.
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). - summary
United States1927Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences established what would become Hollywood's premier awards institution, cementing film as cultural arbiter.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. - summary
United States1927Tech launches
The Jazz Singer's release with synchronized sound marked the death of silent film and transformed cinema into a fully realized audio-visual medium.
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. - summary
United States1927Tech launches
The U.S. Congress established federal regulation of radio broadcasting, creating the precedent for spectrum management and the creation of the FCC.
It replaced the Radio Act of 1912, increasing the federal government's regulatory powers over radio communication, with oversight vested in a newly created body, the Federal Radio Commission. - summary
Canada1927Launches
The CBC's establishment created Canada's first national public broadcaster and defined the country's broadcasting policy for the century.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. - summary
United Kingdom1927Tech launches
The first synchronized sound newsreel revolutionized public information delivery and set the standard for visual journalism for decades.
Under the name British Movietone News, it also ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986, in France also produced by Fox-Europa, in Spain in the early 1930s as Noticiario Fox Movietone before being replaced by No-Do… - summary
United Kingdom1926Protests
The nine-day General Strike of 1926 mobilized over 1.7 million workers across Britain and marked the peak of interwar labour militancy before a decisive government victory.
A general strike is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates. - summary
Switzerland1925Protests
The first international treaty to ban biological and chemical weapons, the Geneva Protocol established binding international law against weapons of mass destruction and shaped modern arms control.
The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the use of chemical … - summary
France1924Sports
The Fédération Internationale des Échecs established standardized rules and competitive structures for chess, transforming the game from parlor pursuit to sanctioned sport.
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE, is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations… - summary
Turkey1923Revolutions
The Treaty of Lausanne formally dissolved the 600-year Ottoman Empire, redrawing Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean borders and creating the modern Turkish state.
The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908–1922) was a period of history of the Ottoman Empire beginning with the Young Turk Revolution and ultimately ending with the empire's dissolution and the founding of the mode… - summary
United Kingdom1922Tech launches
The British Broadcasting Company begins public radio transmission, pioneering mass broadcasting as a regulated public utility and information medium.
BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927. - summary
United States1922Tech launches
AT&T's transmission of a photograph over radio waves pioneered the technology later used in television and digital imaging.
Xerography is a technique of printing and photocopying. - summary
United Kingdom1922Sports
The iconic Centre Court at the All England Club officially opened, establishing the ceremonial heart of the world's oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament.
Centre Court is a tennis court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and is the main court used in the Wimbledon Championships, the third annual Grand Slam event of the tennis calendar. - summary
United States1921Protests
The controversial execution of two Italian anarchists on disputed evidence became a symbol of American xenophobia and judicial injustice.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, arme… - summary
Hungary1920Wars
The treaty dismantled the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Hungarian territories, redrawing Central Europe and generating grievances that destabilized the interwar era.
The Treaty of Trianon, often referred to in Hungary as the Peace Dictate of Trianon or Dictate of Trianon, was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference. - summary
United States1919Tech launches
RCA's creation in October 1919 centralized American wireless telegraphy and radio, establishing the modern broadcast industry.
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was a major American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1987. - summary
Russian Empire1917Revolutions
The February 1917 uprising in Petrograd toppled Nicholas II and created a power vacuum that the Bolsheviks would exploit in October.
The February Revolution, known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. - summary
United States1917Awards
The inaugural Pulitzer Prize ceremony established America's most prestigious awards for journalism, literature, and the arts.
The Pulitzer Prizes are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". - summary