Chronology of the Year 1920 Compiled by E. W. Pickard
A dense timeline of 1920 events from Europe and beyond. Highlights include Bolshevik advances and occupations in Ukraine and Poland, the League of Nations activities, armistices and peace talks, Italian and Greek postwar moves, and political upheavals in Ireland, Germany, Mexico, and Latin America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yekaterinoslav
Dvinek
United States
Greece
China
Roumania
Viemenceau
Lloyd George
Italy
Fiume
Aon
Council of League of Nations
Paris
Supreme Council
Holland
Jugoslavia
Clemenceau
Council of
League of Nations
Jugo-Slavia
Jement
Dvina
General Denikine
Constantinople
Adriatic
Odessa
Vladivostok
Esthenia
Soviet Russia
Germany
Mome
Admiral Kolchak
Schleswig
Wilson
Letta
Russia
Ex-Kalser
Adri
Upreme
Dardanelles
Bosporus
Mozir
Kolenkovits
Minsk
Vladvostok
Frankfurt
Darmstadt
Ruhr
San Remo
Sultan
Dardaselles
Turkey
Berlin
Armenia
Ukraine
Japan
Denmark
Kiev
Moscow
Republic of Georgia
Frankfort
Enzell
Persia
Canada
Resht
Caspian
Bolsheviki
Siberia
Hungary
Klav
Bersaglieri
Ancona
Albania
Piombino
Lemberg
Ukrainia
Brussa
Aasfa Minor
Spa
Belgium
Vilna
Pinsk
Beensareoee
Bolshev
Bolshevik
Epee Bolsheviki
Lithuania
Poland
Volhynia
Syria
Soviet
Witos
Wrangel
Adrianopl Reeks Tooanople
Cnparing Jafar Tagar
Ane
Bialystok
Brest-Litovek
Baranochi
Brest-Litovak
League of Nations Council
Ban Sebastian
Algo
Root
Court of Justice
Asia Minor
League Council
Lloyd
George
London
Latvia
Finland
Mlana
Soldau
Gat
Warsaw
Danzig
Belscheviki
Novorossisk
Donets
Reds
Grodno
Ukrainiang
Eace
Minak
Budenny
Red
Galicia
D'Annunzio
Quarnero
Sweden
Aland Islands
Riga
Zeligouski
Manchuria
Kakhovka
Crimea
League of Nations Assembly
Geneva
Paul Hymans
Leslie Kiev
Spain
Committee On General Organization
Anssia
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
D’annunzio
Ialy
Austria
Erivan
Great Britain
France
Constantine
Willson
League of Nations Disarmament Commission
International Court of Justice
Brazil
Bulgaria
Costa Rica
Luxemburg
Great Powers
Chronology of Prohibition Era and Political Shifts 1919 1920
A dense timeline lists nationwide events from late 1919 into 1920 including arrests during Red scares, suffrage ratifications, key cabinet changes, new nominations for president and vice president, court rulings on prohibition and antitrust matters, rail and coal wage actions, and notable deaths and resignations of public figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raida
Department of Justice
War Finance Corporation
Kentucky
Rhode Island
New York
Democratic National Committee
San Francisco
House of Representatives
Victor Berger
Benate
Oregon
David F. Houston
the Treasury
Edwin T. Meredith
Iowa
Agriculure
Henry P. Fletcher
Mexico
South Carolina
Virginia
Senate
Secretary of the Interior
Lane
Arizona
John Barton Payne
Chicago
Interior
Lansing
Wilson
National American Suffrage Association
House
Baker
Disque
Ryan
New Mexico
Charles R. Crane
China
Bainbridge Colby
W. P. Hunt
Slam
Oklahoma
Geiger
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
New Jersey
United States Supreme Court
United States Steel Corporation
Sir Auckland
United States
West Virginia Assembly
Magdalena Bay
J. Webb
United States Senate
Day
United States’ Supreme Court
John Barton
Payne
Shipping Board
Ireland
Truman H. Newberry
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Mich
Newberry
Hines
Supreme Court
Reading Company
Eugene Debs
Seymour Stedman
Congress
Armenia
Knox
Frank Polk
Warren G. Harding
Ohio
Calvin Coolidge
Massachusetts
James M. Cox
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Navy
Parley F. Christensen
East Lake City
Farmer-Labor Party
George White
Marietta
Lincoln
Neb
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
Aaron
Watkins
D. Leigh Colvin
Harding
Coolidge
Interstate Commerce Commission
West Frankfort
Til
Denver
Cox
Tennessee
Colby
Maine
Wall and Broad Streets
W. A. Ketcham
Indianapolis
J. W. Galbraith, Jr
Cincinnati
American Legion
Walter Dill Scott
Northwestern University
Continental
California
Union League Club
South America
Balkan States
Henry T. Mayo
Co-Operative Marketing Associaons
Italy
Brotherhood of Maintenance of ‘Way
Railway Express
Chicago City Hall
Coal Commission
Clinots
Kansas
Fortiath
American Federation of Labor
Montreal
Barallel
Gompers
Federation Ng
Unites States” Labor Board
Illinois
International Harvester Company
Caplee
American Railway Express
United States Railway Labor Board
Wnt
Meno
Great Britain
Strtck
New England
Global Disasters and Early 20th Century Events Recap
A condensed 20th century ledger of calamities and achievements. Earthquakes in Mexico and Italy, deadly storms and tornadoes across the United States, floods in Japan, and a string of sports milestones in billiards golf and boxing. Notable aviation feats and early air mail milestones also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Atlantic
United States
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Winconsin
Alabama
Georgia
Rothenstein
East Prussia
Mississippi
Tennessee
Cherokee County
Oklahoma
Japan
Italy
Galveston
Chile
Central America
Andes
Also Mentioned on This Page
E. W. Pickard
Klee
Western Newspaper Union
Jose Luis Tamayo
Ecuador
Reichstag
Paul Deschanel
Millerand
Korea
Honduras
Admiral Horthy
Ebert
Wolfgang Kapp
Stuttgart
Doctor Kapp
Cork
Leipsig
Gustav Noske
Bauer
Hermann Mueller
Nikolaevsk
House of Commons
Jan Macpherson
Guatemala City
Estrada Cabrera
N Ew
Carlos Herrera
Hinalgo
Tlaxcala
Calllaux
Chihuahua City
Carranza
Juarez
A. A
Mexico City
Obregon
Tampico
Lare
Joan of
Pope Benedict
Venustiano Carranza
Adolfo de la Huerta
Londonderry
Arthur Meaghen
Robert Borden
Guerra
Bolivia
Baptiste Savedra
Prince Joachim
Kaiser
Belfast
Francisco Villa
Esteban Cantu
Lower
D. Porras
Panama
Commons
Fremier
Venizelos
MacSwiney
Sinn Fein
Cantu
Manuel Gondra
Paraguay
Guatemala
Worker i
Mantua
Balbriggan
Pace
Alexandre Miller
Georges Laygues
Nauen
ugo-Slavia
Terence MacSwiney
Brixton
Alexander
Coundourlot
Alfredo Zayas
Cuba
Drys
Sebastopol
Bolscheviki
Rhallis
Dublin
Mount Blanc
Arthur Griffith
Irish Republic
Sinn Feinarson
Liverpool
Sinn
Michael Hainisch
South Ireland
de Valera
Athena
County Tipperary
Farrow's Bank
Thomas Hume
Muskegon
Paul Adam
Charles E. Magoon
Canal Zone
John F. Dodge
Detroit
Reginald de Koyen
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Yonkers
N. Y
J. B. Wilson
P. W. Davison
Robert B. Peary
Brookline
Massarch
John H. Bankhead
George D. Smith
Henry W. Blair
New Hampshire
Washington
Albert Rouillier
Thomas H. Owen
Department of Archives and History of
Montperets
Ala
John Baptist Crosler
Armagh
All Ireland
Roger C. Sullivan
Theodore N. Vail
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Baltimore
Marjorie Benton Cooke
Manila
R. J. Belford
Los Angeles
J. H. Vincent
Chautauqua Assembly
Rockefeller Foundation
William Dean Howells
Levi P. Morton
Col. W. D.A. Mann
Morristown
N. J
John N. Stockwell
Cleveland
W. W. Hendrickson
Charles Augustus Stoddard
United States Army
Dick S. Morgan
Eighth
John Arbuthnot Fisher
British Admiralty
Eugenie
Madrid
Henry Tudor Brownell Harris
Southampton
England
Arthur J. Eddy
William K. Vanderbilt
W. M. Reedy
the Mirror
St. Louis
J. Frank Hanley
Marquis of Queensberry
Johannesburg
Isham Randolph
Luis Galvin
C. M. Howe
U.S.N. Ft
H.ceereae
Secrety
National Council of Congregational Churches
J. EB. McCall
James O'Neill
E. H. Gheen
Norman Lockyer
Sidmouth
Mme
Etelka Gerster
Andreas Zorn
James Wilson
Traer
Ark
Cardinal Annette
Cardinal Mendez
Dalton
Mass
Miguel de Palacios
H. Stuck
The
Yukon
Ogden Mills
C. M. Alexander
Birmingham
J. G. Snydaker
Howard H. Gross
Universal Military Training League
General Leman
Liege
John Reed
A. J. Sanborn
Madison
Wia
Say Rial
Winston-Salem
N. C
Oliver Doud Byron
Stephen 8. Gregory
Thos. R. Jernigan
Shanghai
Louise Imogen Guiney
G. W. Stevens
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Ludwig
Formar
RW. McClaughry
Werden i Leavenworth We Jollet Penitea
Benny Thode
T. B. Howard
Alston Ellie
Ohio University
Thomas Shields Clarke
Franklin Fort
Thomas J. Coolidge
Boston
George W. Breck
Commodore Hi, C. Benedict
Margaret Brewster
Maesto
Cal
Jake L. Hamon
F. Ekengren
James J. Reynolds
Valley
Eugene W. Chafin
Long Beach
Francis Lynda Stetson
Horace E. Dodge
Palm Beach
Pernals Della Chiesa
Ope
Olive Schreiner
Cyrun’ Beard
Wyoming Supreme Court
Pat O’brien
Horatio W. Seymour
Helen H. Starrett
Charles Sam Burch
A. Haugen
Colorado
Caryan
Joe Stecher
Earl ' Lock
W. B. Huey
Pércy Collins
Walter Hagen
Bellair Heights
Fly
Paul Ones
Chevrolet
William T. Tilden
Philadelphia
Wimbledon
Shamrock
Charles Evans, Jr
Resolute
Mark Aliie
Ilinois
Jock Hutchinson
Edward Ray
Kohlemainen
Marathon
Antwerp
Jack Dempsey
Billy Miske
Brooklyn
Chicago White Sox
Oo Carpentier
Laevinsky
Grand
Hal Chase
Bill Burns
Abe -Atfel
Esperanto
Delawanna
Rosco Sarles
Gaston Chevrolet
Dee
Willie Hoppe
John Layton
Bob Cannefax
Bil Brennan
Aeronautics
BR. W. Schroeder
Dayton
Rome
Tokyo
John H. Larsen
Omaha
NeLe
Asia
Long Island
San Fransci
Cal Meta
Beteen Ee Eniage
Ork
Nome
Alaska
York
James Gordon Bennett
Frances Dey
Belgica
America
C. C. Mosley
Pulite
Christensen
Airmail