Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 - 1924 - 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
Events
- Andre Breton founds surrealism, defining it as "pure psychic automatism"
- January 3 - Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen (Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt).
- November - Calvin Coolidge defeats John W. Davis in the U.S. presidential election
- December 24 - Albania becomes a republic
- December 30 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- February 11 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
- November 20 - Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician
- December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr., US politician
Deaths
- January 21 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
- November 29 - Giacomo Puccini - Italian great opera composer
- Physics - Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
- Chemistry - not awarded
- Medicine - Willem Einthoven
- Literature - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
- Peace - Not awarded.