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1921 AD              - (Jul)                        - Unemployment reaches a post-war high of 2.5 million
                            - (23 Aug)                 - British mandate of Mesopotamia becomes the Kingdom of Iraq
                            - (06 Dec)                 - Anglo-Irish Peace Treaty is signed resulting in partition of the island
1922 AD              - (28 Jun)                  - Irish Civil War breaks out
                            - (19 Oct)                  - Prime Minister David Lloyd George resigns as his wartime coalition breaks up
                            - (23 Oct)                  - Conservative Andrew Bonar Law becomes Prime Minister
1923 AD              - (15 May)                - The British Mandate of Transjordan becomes a semi-independent state
                            - (22 May)                 - Conservative Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
1924 AD              - (23 Jan)                  - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first labour Prime Minister
                            - (29 Oct)                  - Conservatives win a landslide election following the ‘Zinoviev Letter’
1925 AD              - (28 Apr)                 - Chancellor Winston Churchill returns to Britain to the ‘Gold Standard’
                            - (05 Aug)                 - ‘Plaid Cymru’ is formed to disseminate knowledge of the Welsh language
1926 AD              - (26 Jan)                  - John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television
                            - (03 May)                 - General strike is declared after miners reject the Samuel Report
                            - (16 May)                - Irish politician Eamon de Valera establishes the Fianna Fail Party
                            - (19 Oct)                  - Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa are recognised as autonomous
1927 AD              - (01 Jan)                  - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is created
1928 AD              - (07 May)                - All women over the age of 21 get the vote
                            - (Sept)                     - The first ‘talkie’ (film with dialogue) is shown in Britain
                            - (30 Sept)                - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
1929 AD              - (30 May)                - Labour wins the general election with Ramsay Macdonald as Prime Minister
                            - (24 Oct)                  - Wall Street Crash sparks the Great Depression
1930 AD              - (21 Jan)                  - London Conference on Naval Disarmament starts
                            - (12 Mar)                 - Mohandas Gandhi leads a march to the sea in protest against the Indian salt
                            - ( 24 Jun)                 - ‘Simon Report’ proposes representative government for India
                            - (12 Nov)                - ‘Round Table’ conference on India opens in London
1931 AD             - (04 Mar)                 - Mohandas Gandhi agrees to suspend civil disobedience in India
                            - (22-23 Aug)           - Prime Minister Ramsey Macdonald resigns in a row over the Budget
                            - (27 Oct)                 - ‘National Government’ Coalition wins the election, but Labour support plummets
1932 AD              - (16 Feb)                 - Eamon De Valera’s Fianna Fail Party wins the Irish General Election
                            - (01 Oct)                  - Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists
                            - (03 Oct)                  - Iraq joins the League of Nations after the British Mandate ends
1934 AD              -                                - Scottish Nationalist Party is founded to fight for an independent Scotland
                            - (19 Jul)                   - New Air Defence Programme adds 41 Squadrons to the RAF
                            - (22 Sept)                - Gresford Mine Disaster kills 266 in North Wales
1935 AD              - (11 Apr)                 - Italy. France and Britain meet to discuss German rearmament
                            - (07 Jun)                   - Conservative Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister for the third time
                            - (Jul)                         - First Penguin paperbacks go on sale, bringing literature to the masses
1936 AD              - (20 Jan)                  - George V dies and is succeeded by Edward VIII
                             - (26 Aug)                 - Ango-Egyptian Treaty ends the British protectorate of Egypt
                             - (05 Oct)                  - Jarrow men march to London to highlight local poverty and unemployment
                             - (10 Dec)                 - Edward VIII abdicates in order to marry Wallace Simpson
1937 AD              - (12 May)                 - George VI is crowned King
                             - (07 Jul)                   - Peel Commission recommends partitioning Palestine
                             - (29 Dec)                 - New constitution makes Ireland a Republic in all but name
1938 AD              - (12 Feb)                 - First refugee children of the ‘Kindertransport’ arrive in Britain
                           - (20 Feb)                - Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns over the ‘Appeasement’ of Italy