Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928
Births
- February 11 - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat.
Deaths
Events
- First works created that would eventually be protected under a pseudo-perpetual copyright regime in the United States; see Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
- Change of US presidency from Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) to Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
- Republic of Turkey founded
- Physics - Robert Andrews Millikan
- Chemistry - Fritz Pregl
- Medicine - Frederick Grant Banting, John James Richard Macleod
- Literature - William Butler Yeats
- Peace - Not awarded.