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| 1st Flight South Pole Balchen, Bernt |  |
| 29th Nov South Pole Co-pilot during the 1st flight over the South Pole |
| 1st Flight South Pole Byrd, Richard Evelyn | |
| 29th Nov South Pole Completes the 1st flight over the South Pole |
| 1st Woman Cabinet Member Bondfield, Margaret |  |
| 5th June London 1st Woman member of cabinet in Britain |
| Air Vice Marshal Dowding, Hugh | |
| Appointed Air Vice Marshal |
| Alliance Ataturk, Maustafa Kemal |  |
| 6th Mar Turkey signs a treaty with Bulgaria |
| 17th Dec Turkey renews its Alliance with Russia but continues to suppress communism |
| Allied Reparations Committee Young, Owen | |
| 7th June The Reparations Committee, is appointed by the Allied Reparation Committee, meets in the first half of 1929, and submits it's first report |
| Ambassador Corbin, Charles |  |
| Madrid Appointed Ambassador to Spain |
| Ambassador Henderson, Nevile Meyrick | |
| Belgrade Appointed Ambassador to Yugoslavia |
| Ambassador Dawes, Charles Gates | |
| London Appointed Ambassador to Britain |
| Armament MacDonald, James Ramsey | |
| The USA & Great Britain sign an agreement for complete parity in all naval vessels |
| Arrest Sukarno, Achmed |  |
| Arrested by the Dutch |
| Attorney Hogg | |
| London Appointed Lord Chancellor |
| Battle of Sibilla Abdal al-Aziz |  |
| Sibilla Arabia Defeats the Ikhwan to ensure the dominance of the House of Sa'ud |
| Birth Meri, Lennart |  |
| Birth of Lennart Meri |
| Birth Arafat, Yasser |  |
| 24th Aug Cairo Birth of Yasser Arafat |
| Birth Yassin, Ahmed | |
| 1st Jan Jura Birth of Ahmed Yassin in the British Mandate of Palestine |
| Birth King, Martin Luther | |
| 15th Jan Atlanta Birth of Martin Luther King, Jr., born to teacher Alberta King and Baptist minister Michael Luther King |
| Black Friday Hoover, Herbert Clerk | |
| 25th Oct Black Friday on the stock exchance of New York starts the world economic crisis |
| Brown House Hess, Rudolph |  |
| Munich Raises funds to enable the NSDAP to move its HQ to the Briennerstrasse in Munich |
| Cabinet Bondfield, Margaret | |
| 5th June London Appointed Member of the cabinet |
| Capture of Changsha Peng, Dehuai |  |
| Jan Changsha Drives Ho out of Changsha |
| Cardinal Pius XII |  |
| Vatican Appointed Cardinal |
| Chaiman Reparations Committee Young, Owen | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Reparations Committee |
| Chancellor Schobar, Johan |  |
| Vienna Appointed Chancellor of Austria, 2nd term |
| Chancellor Streeruwitz, Ernst | |
| 30th April Vienna Appointed Chancellor of Austria |
| Chancellor Attlee, Clement Richard | |
| Appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
| Chancellor Snowden, Philip | |
| Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2nd term |
| Colonel Yamashita, Tomoyuki |  |
| Appointed Colonel |
| Commander Peng, Dehuai | |
| Jan Appointed Commander of the 5th Army |
| Commander Blomberg, Werner von | |
| Konigsberg Appointed Commander of the Wehrkreis, Konigsberg HQ east Prussia |
| Appointed Commander of East Prussia |
| Commander Araki, Sadao | |
| Appointed Commander 6th Division |
| Commander Blucher, Vasily Konstantinovich |  |
| Siberia Appointed Commander of Eastern Siberia |
| Commander Blyukher, Vasily Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Far Eastern Red Army |
| Concordat Victor Emmanuel III | |
| Vatican City Agrees to the Vatican Concordat & recognizes the sovereignty of the Vatican City |
| Conference of Hague, 1st Young, Owen | |
| 31st Aug Hague, The The Young Plan meets with great objections from the United Kingdom but, after a first Hague Conference, the plan is finalized |
| Congress of CP, 15th Stalin, Joseph | |
| The NEP is replaced by a 5 yr plan at the 15th Party Congress |
| Constitution Colijn, Hendrikus |  |
| Amsterdam Appointed Member of the Lower House |
| Constitution Alexander I |  |
| Belgrade Alexander forms a military dictatorship, opposition from the Croats & Italians |
| Constitution Alexander |  |
| 6th Jan Belgrade Abolishes the Constitution of 1921 |
| 6th Jan Belgrade Adopts the name of Yugoslavia |
| 6th Jan Belgrade Establishes a royal dictatorship |
| Death Radoslavov, Vasil |  |
| Death of Vasil Radoslavov |
| Death Foch, Ferdinand | |
| 20th Mar Death of Ferdinand Foch |
| Death Baden, Max von | |
| Death of Max von Baden |
| Death Stressman, Gustav | |
| 3rd Oct Berlin Death of Gustav Stressman |
| Death Diagilev, Serge | |
| 19th Aug Death of Sergei Diagilev |
| Diplomacy Briand, Aristide | |
| Aristide Briand of France proposes a plan for the United States of Europe |
| Germany refuses to guarantee it's eastern frontiers & France seeks to give Poland and Czechoslovakia the security they required by signing treaties with them |
| Stressman promises not to send German troops into the Rhineland and accepts that Alsace-Lorraine is permantely part of France |
| Diplomacy Stressman, Gustav | |
| Stresemann proposes that France, Germany and Belgium should recognize as permanent their frontiers that were agreed at Versallies |
| Stressman promises not to send German troops into the Rhineland and accepts that Alsace-Lorraine is permantely part of France |
| Diplomacy MacDonald, James Ramsey | |
| The USA & Great Britain sign an agreement for complete parity in all naval vessels |
| 3rd Oct Britain & Russia resume diplomatic relations |
| Diplomacy Osachi, Hamaguchi | |
| 22nd July Tokyo Japan severs relations with China |
| Diplomacy Bartel, Kazimierz |  |
| 9th Feb Litvinov Protocol between Russia, Estonia, Latvia & Poland renouncing war |
| Diplomacy Stalin, Joseph | |
| 3rd Oct Britain & Russia resume diplomatic relations |
| Diplomacy Hertzog, James |  |
| Pretoria Africa Sth Africa begins sending diplomats broad |
| 11th Sep Portuguese treaty with Sth Africa regulates transport & labour recruitment |
| Diplomacy Ataturk, Maustafa Kemal | |
| 6th Mar The Bulgarian-Turkish treaty of Friendship |
| Diplomacy Hoover, Herbert Clerk | |
| The USA & Great Britain sign an agreement for complete parity in all naval vessels |
| Director Asst Piaget Piaget, Jean |  |
| Geneva Appointed Assistant Director at the JJ Rouseau Institute |
| Discovery of Hubble's Law Hubble, Edwin | |
| Discovers Hubble's Law |
| Dismissal |
