Important Historical Events of the year 1923, Year 1923 in History
List of 1923 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1923
What happened in the year 1923?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1923 | Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS. |
| January 9, 1923 | Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. |
| January 9, 1923 | Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. |
| January 11, 1923 | Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments. |
| February 10, 1923 | Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas. |
| February 15, 1923 | Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar. |
| February 16, 1923 | Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. |
| March 20, 1923 | The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States. |
| April 15, 1923 | Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. |
| April 26, 1923 | The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. |
| April 28, 1923 | Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium. |
| May 26, 1923 | The first 24 Hours of Le Mans is held and has since been run annually in June. |
| June 9, 1923 | Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. |
| July 1, 1923 | The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration. |
| July 24, 1923 | The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I. |
| August 2, 1923 | Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding. |
| August 16, 1923 | The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator. |
| August 18, 1923 | The first British Track and Field championships for women are held in London, Great Britain. |
| August 23, 1923 | Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours. |
| September 1, 1923 | The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people. |
| September 4, 1923 | Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. |
| September 7, 1923 | The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed. |
| September 8, 1923 | Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. |
| September 9, 1923 | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party. |
| September 12, 1923 | Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom. |
| September 13, 1923 | Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. |
| September 26, 1923 | The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr. |
| September 29, 1923 | The Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine. |
| September 29, 1923 | The Mandate for Syria and Lebanon takes effect. |
| September 29, 1923 | The First American Track and Field championships for women are held. |
| October 6, 1923 | The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople. |
| October 13, 1923 | Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey. |
| October 14, 1923 | After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial. |
| October 15, 1923 | The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic. |
| October 16, 1923 | The Walt Disney Company is founded. |
| October 22, 1923 | The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic. |
| October 29, 1923 | Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. |
| October 31, 1923 | The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia. |
| November 8, 1923 | Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. |
| November 9, 1923 | In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch. |
| November 11, 1923 | Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch. |
| December 21, 1923 | United Kingdom and Nepal formally sign an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816. |