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Abdication   Constantine I   26th Sep Athens   Abdicates for the 2nd time after the Greek defeat by Turkey    Alchohol   Harding, Warren Gamaliel   7th Oct Washington   A supreme court decision to ban alcohol at sea is approved by President Harding    Alliance   Tse-Tung, Mao   1st Aug   The CCP decides to collaborate with the Kuomintang, the Nationalist Party of China    Arrest   Hitler, Adolf    Stadelheim   Released following reaction in Bavaria to 5 the Law for the Protection of the Republic   12th Jan   Adolf Hitler sentenced to three months   4th June Stadelheim   Says "2,000 yrs ago the mob of Jerusalem dragged a man to execution in just this way"    Arrest   Andrew    Sakarya   Dissatisfaction with the war led to a Coup d'‚tat during which Prince Andrew is arrested, court-martialled and found guilty of "disobeying an order" and "acting on his own initiative" during the battle of Sakarya    Arrest   Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand   10th Mar Chauri Chaura   Gandhi is arrested then tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years imprisonment   18th Mar Chauri Chaura   Begins his sentence, serves about two years of the sentence, being released in February 1924 after an operation for appendicitis   18th Mar Chauri Chaura   Imprisoned after the Chauri Chaura incident   18th Mar Chauri Chaura   While Gandhi is in prison the INC spinters into 2 factions, one led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru favouring participation in the legislatures, the other led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel   22nd Mar Chauri Chaura   A British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison    Arrest   Lusignoli, Alfredo   28th Oct Milan   The Prefect of Milan ignores Government orders to arrest Mussolini    Assassination   Rathenau, Walter   4th June Berlin   After the assassination the President issues "the decree to protect the Republic"   4th June Berlin   Caused by extremist reaction to the establishmment of the Weimar Republic   4th June Berlin   After the assassination the President issues "the decree to protect the Republic"   4th June Berlin   Caused by extremist reaction to the establishmment of the Weimar Republic    Assassination   Lloyd George, David    London   Orders the Irish to attack the IRA after the assassination of Wilson, they refuse    Assassination   Collins, Michael John "Mick"   7th Jan Dublin    Collins orders the killing of Henry Wilson in reprisal for failing to prevent the attacks on Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland   7th Jan Dublin   The British forces Collins to take action against the Four Courts men, Collins borrows two 18 pounder artillery pieces from the British and bombards the Four Courts until its garrison surrenders    Aug Cork    Collins travels to his native Cork, against the advice of his companions, despite suffering from stomach ache and depression, Collins reputedly told his comrades that "They wouldn't shoot me in my own county"    Aug Cork   In Cork city, Collins meets neutral IRA men Sean Hegarty and Florrie O'Donoghue, with a view to contacting Anti-Treaty IRA leaders Tom Barry and Tom Hales to propose a truce   22nd Aug Cork   The ambush party, allegedly commanded by Liam Deasy, had mostly dispersed to a nearby pub by 8pm, when Collins and his men returned to Beal na mBlath but the remaining five ambushers open fire on the convoy    Assassination   Deasy, Liam   22nd Aug Cork   The ambush party, allegedly commanded by Liam Deasy, had mostly dispersed to a nearby pub by 8pm, when Collins and his men returned to Beal na mBlath but the remaining five ambushers open fire on the convoy    Assassination   Hegarty, Sean    Aug Cork   In Cork city, Collins meets neutral IRA men Sean Hegarty and Florrie O'Donoghue, with a view to contacting Anti-Treaty IRA leaders Tom Barry and Tom Hales to propose a truce    Assassination   O'Donoghue, Florrie    Aug Cork   In Cork city, Collins meets neutral IRA men Sean Hegarty and Florrie O'Donoghue, with a view to contacting Anti-Treaty IRA leaders Tom Barry and Tom Hales to propose a truce    Assassination   Narutowicz, Gabriel   16th Dec   Assassinated by a nationalist fanatic    Assassination   Sikorski, Wladyslaw   16th Dec Warsaw   Forms a cabinet of pacification after the assassination of Narutowicz    Attorney   Hogg    London   Appointed Lord Chancellor    Battle of Sakarya   Andrew    Sakarya   Dissatisfaction with the war led to a Coup d'‚tat during which Prince Andrew is arrested, court-martialled and found guilty of "disobeying an order" and "acting on his own initiative" during the battle of Sakarya    Birth   Neto, Antonio Agostinho      Birth of Antonio Agostinho Neto    Birth   Amiss, Kingsley   16th April    Kings ley Amis, novelist and poet, is born    Birth   Ashley, Jack   6th Dec   Birth of Jack Ashley    Birth   Stein, John "Jock"   5th Oct Burnbank   Birth of John "Jock" Stein    Birth   Rabin, Yitzhak   4th Nov Jerusalem   Birth of Yitzhak Rabin    Birth   Tebaldi, Renata   1st Feb   Birth of Renata Tebaldi    Birth   Nyerere, Julius Kambarage   13th April   Birth of Julius Kambarage Nyerere    Birth   Bernstein, Elmer