1921

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**1921**

1921 was a common year starting on a Saturday.

### January

January 2: The Spanish liner Santa Isabel breaks in two and sinks off Villa Garcia, Mexico, with the loss of 244 of the 300 people on board.
January 16: Marxist Left in Slovakia and Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
January 17: First recorded public performance of the illusion "Sagging a woman in half".
January 20: British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; The Kid, a full-length silent comedy drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character), with Jackie Coogan, is released in the United States.
January 25: Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci is straightened in Taranto Harbour.

### February

February 12: Red Army
February 19: La Troisième République française et la Deuxième République polonaise forment une alliance défensive.
February 20: 20 La Jeune Ligue communiste de Tchécoslovaquie est fondée.
February 21: 1921 Coup d'état perse: Rezā Khan et Zia'eddin Tabatabaee organisent un coup
February 23: The Moderately conservative public official Oscar von Sydow takes over the Swedish premiership from Baron Louis De Geer the Younger.
February 25: Red Army invasion of Georgia:
February 27: Un congrès socialiste à Vienne se termine par la fondation de l'Union internationale des partis socialistes.

### March

March 1: The city of Kiryū, located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, is founded.
March 5: The Allied Powers force Germany to pay war reparations.
March 8: Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato e Iradier is assassinated while
March 9: Cilicia Peace Treaty is signed between the French Third Republic and the Turkish National Movement in an attempt to end the Franco-Turkish War.
March 12: The İstiklâl Marşı (Independence March), the Turkish national anthem, is officially adopted.
March 14: Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian assassinates Mehmed Talaat, former Interior Minister of the Ottoman Empire, in Charlottenburg, Berlin.
March 16: Treaty of Moscow establishes friendly relations between Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Russian Socialist Federative
March 20: Oberschlesien stimmt für die Wiederannexion an Deutschland.
March 21: Die Neue Wirtschaftspolitik beginnt in Sowjetrussland.
March 24: Irish War of Independence: Headford Ambush Die irische Republikanische Armee tötet mindestens 9 britische Truppen.
March 31: Abkhazia becomes the Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia.

### April

April 6: Simon Kimbangu founded his Church in the Belgian Congo. Seen by his disciples as a quasi-reincarnation of the messiah, he was arrested on 12 September, sentenced to death and deported to Elizabethville.
April 20: "Black Friday" in Britain: transport union members of the 'Triple Alliance' refuse to support national strike action by coal miners.

### May

May 1: Jaffa riots:
May 7: Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is
May 21: Rif War: Battle of Anoual.

### June

June 7: Creation in Kenya of the Young Kikuyu Association, future East African Association by Harry Thuku.

### July

July 11: End of the Irish War of Independence.
July 14: Sacco and Vanzetti are sentenced to death.
July 21: Rif War: Battle of Anoual.

### August

August 2: The Rifans take Nador, then Zeluán (3 August) and Monte Aruit (9 August); the Spanish presence in Morocco is reduced in the area of Melilla to the positions occupied in 1893.
August 28 - 6 September: Second Pan-African Congress in London, Brussels and Paris.

### October

October 10: The Spanish army counterattacks in the Rif and resumes the Gourougou from Melilla, then Zeluán on 14 October; On 5 December, it took over Yebala and the territories lost until the Kert.
October 24: The Spanish army occupies the citadel of Monte Aruit, where it discovers massacred.

### December

December 28: White mine strike in Witwatersrand.