International 1926 Briefing of World Events
A compact summary of global affairs from January to December 1926, listing major diplomacy milestones, treaties, conflicts, and political shifts. Highlights include arms control talks in Geneva, shifting regimes in Europe, Shanghai riots involving foreign nationals, and the ongoing aftermath of postwar settlements across continents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
United States
Geneva
Japan
Russia
Costa Rica
League of Nations
Marshal Foch
Germany
Honduras
Abd-el-Krim
Spain
Fez
Shanghai
China
Vekstra
Belgium
Kellogg
Mexico
Calles
Morocco
Marshal Petain
Moroccco
Vienna
Dusseldorff
Duisburg
Ktuhrort
Great Britain
Irrance
Adjir
America
Assembly of League of Nations
Raoul Duandurand
Canada
Alhucemas Bay
Tetuan
Mosul
Hague Court
Turkey
Caillaux
Washington
League of Nations Assembly
Locarno
Switzerland
International Commission
Chiari
Panama
Panama City
Italy
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Demihissar
Greece
Bulgaria
Petrich
League of Nations Council
Mosu
International Court of Justice
Peking
Lacarte
Chile
Egypt
Jarabub
Reichstag
London
Europe
Cologne
League of Nationsainst
Pershings
Romania
Ahmed Zogu
Alvania
Giacomo di Martino
Yugoslavia
Pachich
San Blais
San Blas
Ismet Pasha
Tacna-Arica
Peru
Coolidge
M. Tulenheimo
Theunig
Marshal von Mindenburg
Insenate
Boris
Paul Painleve
Sofia
Painleve
Catilaux
Briand
Wilhelm
von Hindenburg
Sofia Cathedral
Faul von Hindenburg
Aloys van de Vyvere
Chang 'So-Lin
Peqing
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Amundsen
Spitzbergen
King of
Presbyterian
Methodist
Congregational Churches of Canada
United Church of Canada
Viscount Poullet
Pole
Pangalos
Sheik Said
Syria
Saedia
da Silva
Portugal
Persia
Druses
Kemal
Latife Hanoun
Lee Stack
Villaneuva
Suedia
Alessandri
Arthur Meighan
Shah Ahmed Mirza
Riza Khan
Pahlavi
Bakry Bey
Syrian
Mussolini
Thwarten
Canterbury
Marshal Chang
Manchuria
Lebanon
San Luis Potosi
Skrzynszki
French Chamber of Deputies
Prince Prajatipok
Gen
Fenx
Loucheur
J. H. Doolittle
Baltimore
United States Navy
Doolittle
Mitchell
Summerall
Rowley and Sladen
Thomas W. Miller
Brand
James J. Walker
New York
Harry Moore
Wet
foVernor
New Jersey
Anti-Saloon League
Chicago
James E. Jones
Prohibition
Army
Navy Air Services
Garland
Nye
Sprlle
North Dakota
Senator Ladd
Boston & Maine Railroad
Mississippi Valley Association
St. Louis
Chicago-to-Gulf
Patrick
Army Air Service
Amos Ifrries
Chemical Warfare Service
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Muscle Shoals Board of Inquiry
Sixty-ninth
Congress
Nicholas Longworth
American Farm Bureau Federation
Dee
House
Ogden H. Hammond
Bhie Railroad
R. V. Taylor
Moblie
Ala
Interstate Commerce Commission
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E. W. Pickard
Union
Tsao UN
Federal Railway Labor Board
New York Warment
Dodge Automobile Company
Syndicate of Bankers
Great Northern
Union Pacific
U. S. Railway Labor Board
U. 8
Supreme Court
Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine
Chicago Board of Trade
International Harvester Company
Federal Court of Equity
U. S. Supreme Court
Burley Tobacco Growers’ Co- Operative Marketing Association
Tennessee
Plasterers of America
F. W. Sargent
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
W. H. Finley
Standard Oil Company of
American Woolen Company
International Association of Machinists
Grain Marketing Company
Tirst Union of Cemetery Workers
American Federation of Labor
Lewis
Ept
South Africa
Armour and Morris Packing
John V. Farwell Co
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co
Ward, General and
Continental Baking Companies
Italian Confederation of In Industry
Confederation of
Labor
Atlantic City
Green
Arizona
S. M. Felton
Chicago Great Western Railway
Col. N. L. Howard
Ali of
Hedjaz
Jedda
Joseph MccKenna
Harlan F. Stone
Nelie T. Ross
Wyoming
Senate
Interior Department
Treasury
Post Office
Agriculture
Hughes
Frank B. Kellogg
Charles B. Warren
Dawes
Alanson B. Houghton
C. Bascom Slemp
Everett Sanders
Indiana
W. M. Brown
Arkansas
Church Board of Review
Denby
Senate Committee On Oil
United States Railroad Administration
Teapot Dome
Fall
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
Coal
Charles R. Forbes
Veterans’ Bureau
John W. Thompson
Emile Daeschner
Sermn
Nome
Delaware
Utah
Coil
C. R. Forbes
J W
Thompson
William M. Jardine
Kansas
George Parks
Alaska
Floyd Collings
Bowlder
Sand Cave
Kentucky
Houge
Charles
Deneen
Illinois
Medill McCormick
Dickinson Co-Operative
Next House
Ohio
Yiouse
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Pacific
Calvin Coolidge
Charles G. Dawes
United States Shipping Board and
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation
James E. Fecher
William Mitchell
Charles Beecher Warren
Warren
Isle* of Pines
Republic of Cuba
Thomas I. Woodlock
Interstate Comme E Commission
Texas Flying Field
United States Shipping Board
Sinclair
The
Dohenys
U. S
Saratoga
Senator Wheeler
Montana
Great Walls
District of Columbia
Big Five
B. K. Wheeler
Great Falls
Mont
Hawaii
J. Mr. Beck
W. T. van Orman
Goodyear III
International Council of Women
Wilbur
Annapolis Academy
Coast Guard
Glenn Wrank
Century Magazine
University of Wisconsin
Mer. J
Noll
Huntington
Ind
Fort Wayne
Presbyterian General Assembly
Columbus
C. Erdman
Princeton Seminary
J. T. Scopes
Dayton
Tenn
Baker
Missouri
G. H. Williams
Selden S. Spencer
Grand
Doheny
Shipping Board
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Los Angeles
William D. Mitchell
St. Paul
Minn
MacMilan
Crocker Land
Boston
Kennedy
Cheyenne
Wryo
Sinclair Company
John Jacob Rogers
F. E. Clark
Christian Endeavor
D. A. Poling
Brousard
W. J. Bryan
Scopes
Am Dayton
William Jennings Bryan
William J. Bryan
Arlington National Cemetery
Ford
National Crime Commission
Max Mason
University of Chicago
MacMillan
Polar
H. G. Taylor
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrews
Muscle Shoals
Navy
San Francisco
Honolulu
Grand Rapids
Mich
Iowa
Brookhart
Steck
Shenandoah
Zachary Lansdowne
John B. Inman
Springfield
Ill
Navy Air Service
Vise
Saklatvala
R. M. la Follette, Jr
Wisconsin
Aircraft Board
Fleet Corporation
J. Thompson
Convention of
American Legion
Omaha
Leigh ©. Palmer
Elmer E. Crowley
Episcopal House of Bishops
John KR. McQuigg
Cleveland
Brown
Cyrus Bettis
Mitchelfield
J. W. Weeks
D. F. Davia
Bishop Murray
Maryland
Hanford MacNider
Arthur R. Robinson
Indianapolis
Inang
Rassina
Dortmund
Sullivan
North America
Mlinois
Alabama
Chalchihuites
Memphis
Sanford
N. C
Minneapolis
Sturgis
Bremen
Hackettstown
N. J
Santa Barbara
Cal
Newport
R. L
Rome
Rhode Island
English Channel
New Orleans
Florida
Storma
Henry Moeller
Cincinnati
George W. Bellows
Edward Morgan
New York City
Norman Bridge
Daniel G. Reid
John C. Eastman
Chicago Journal
Wield Marshal Baron Grenfell
George W. Cable
John Lane
Julius Fleischmann
Miami Beach
Thomas W. Lawson
Clio H. Bracken
Fred W. Upham
Republican Party
M. H. de Young
San Francisco Chronicle
Marion le Roy Burton
University of Michigan
James Lane Allen
James H Wson
Hjalmar Branting
Sweden
Ilinois
Robert C. Clowry
Western Union Telegraph Company
J. J. C. Clarke
J. E. Martine
Friedrich Ebert
William A. Clark
Montan
William A. Quayre
Methodist Episcopal Church
Baldwin
Kan
Sun Yat-Sen
Peline
Marquis Curzon
Kedleston
Lord Heard
Lorenry
Rawlinson
India
Delhi
Vespasian Warner
Clinton
Jean de Heszke
Ace
Bernice de Pasquali
Alec
Alexander Whristie
Ralph D. Paine
Concord
N. H
Atican
William A. Tilden
Arthub
W. Congressmianrthur
Hii
Battle Creek
Viscount Leverhulme
K. G. Eeeee
A. Bandh
Henry O. Wilbur
Philadelphia
Sierbert Quick
W. I. Massey
Mew
Zealand
Amy Lowell
Brookline
Mays
Bree
Pra
Arthur Murray
Charles Mangin
Verdun
Viscount Milner
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Nelson A. Miles
Selden P. Spencer
Sfield Marshal French
Earl of
Ypres
Ernest. Dew. Burton
Chicago University
Louis Fall
Rochester
N. Y
Thomas Rfr. Marshall
Camille Flammarion
Pierre Louys
Vance Thompson
Nice
Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Julius Kruttschnitt
University of Illinois
Robert M. LaFollette
Edwin F. Todd
Mary Cholmondeley
G. W. Williams
Charleston, & C
Moses Shoenberg
Cardinal Begin
Quebec
A. J. Ochsner
Venn
Feten H. Gardner
Edgar A. Bancroft
Paul J. Gores
Owen IF. Aldis
Paris
George Gray
Aus
John Temple Graves
Georgia
Theodore Spiering
Munich
Adam Beck
Ontario
Victor F. Lawson
Chicago Daily News
Helen Culver
Lake Forest
George Goldie
Nigeria
Arthur Shirley
Thomas Hisgen
Independent League
W. O. Stoddard
Abraham Lincoln
Madison
E. R. Stettinilus
J. P. Morgan & Co
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Portsmouth
T—Fene Vivian
Samuel P. Thresher
Max Pam
Herbert Parsons
Seymour Cromwell
Marquis Eaton
Fvrancis Darwin
Charles Darwin
Paul Barnatt
A. C. Bedford
Standard Oil
James Deering
Viscount Hamao
Ada Lewis
Prata
Samuel M. Ralston
Eugene Sandow
Isaac R. Sherwood
Toledo
Frederick Burgess
Long Island
William Livingstone
Wore Carriers’ Association
Detroit
Edward M. Parker
New Hampshire
H. J. Waters
Enpore
Kansas City Tar
Job Harriman
Sierra Madre
E. H. Carmack
Theodore Presser
Etude
M. B. Ailes
Risers National Bank of Washington
Felix Agnus
Army of Napoleon Itl
Baltimore American
L. White Busbey
M. W. Franse
Samuel Dickie
Albion College
Michigan
P. A. Lannon
Salt Lake ‘Tribune
Khal Dinh
Annam
Eldridge Gerry Snow
Nordhagen
Ene H. Preston
Edior. Noy
Ira O. Baker
Doimicio de Gama
A. J. Harling
C. M. & St. P. Railway
inMlwaukee
E. D. Libbey
Hio
J. W. P. Lombard
Milwaukee
J. Campbell Cory
Denver
G. C. Shields
Queen Alexandra
England
Oka Morris
New Canaan
Ann
Paul I. Peck
Northwestern University
W. T Brown
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Suplyalat
Theebaw
Burma
Rama VI
Siam
A. A. McCormick
Gordon BE
Sherman
Morristown
Andrew Wletcher
American Locomotive Company
Newark
A. N. Belding
Rockville
Conn
H. A. Johnson
Publsher Lumber World Review
HeaMot Ee Resteeles
R. A. Blanchard
Whetoeeeee Tllinois
Kren Munsey
Munseys
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