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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
Categories: Births – Deaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1920s was the decade that started on January 1, 1920 and ended on December 31, 1929. This decade was known as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age.

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  • Tropas participantes en la guerra de África por la calle Hernani (1 de 1) - Fondo Marín-Kutxa Fototeka

    Spanish troops in San Sebastián, prior to their departure to the Rif War.

  • 5 Prohibition Disposal(9) (cropped)

    Prohibition agents emptying barrels of alcohol.

  • Crowd outside nyse

    Crowd gathering after the Wall Street Crash of 1929

  • Steamboat Willie1928

    The first short film by Walt Disney, Steamboat Willie, 1928

  • Louise Brooks ggbain 32453u crop

    The most memorable fashion trend of the Roaring Twenties was undoubtedly "the flapper" look.

  • Jazzing orchestra 1921

    The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age"

  • Charlie Chaplin

    Charlie Chaplin during the 1920s

  • Berlin-Jolson27

    Irving Berlin (left) and Al Jolson, c. 1927

  • D W Griffith

    D. W. Griffith at a rolltop desk, c. 1925

  • Goddard and Rocket

    Robert Goddard and his rocket, 1926

  • Telefon, Nordisk familjebok

    1920s phone

  • Campbell Thompson

    M1 Thompson rifle (1921 model)

  • Synthetic Production of Penicillin TR1468

    In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • Tuts Tomb Opened

    Howard Carter opens the innermost shrine of King Tutankhamun's tomb near Luxor, Egypt, 1922

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