June 12: Four killed in Belfast in political violence.
June 22: Irish Parliament is formally opened in Belfast City Hall with a speech by the British Monarch.
June 23: IRA blows up train, killing 4 British soldiers and 80 horses.
July 10: Bloody Sunday. In Belfast 161 homes of Roman Catholics burned and 14 people killed, 10 of them Roman Catholic.
August: British government imposes "King Faisal" on Iraqis after the Syrians refuse to accept him as King and he was forced out in July 1920.
September 4: Sinn Fein holds a mass rally in Armagh at which Michael Collins, the Irish Finance Minister, ang General Eoin O'Duffy, speak.
September 16: Front page of The New York Times reports that 39 year old Franklin Delano Roosevelt is stricken with polio.
September 21: 'Abdullah Muhammad Idris al-Sihayni declares himself to be the nabi 'isa or the Prophet Jesus and declares a jihad against the British colonial government of Sudan.
September 26: 'Abdullah Muhammad Idris al-Sihayni leads a force of 5000 against Nyala Fort but are defeated, losing 600 dead to the 43 of ther British colonial army.
October: Persian troops hang Kuchik Khan.
October 4: 'Abdullah Muhammad Idris al-Sihayni is captured by the British colonial authorities.
October 7: Babe Ruth hits 59 home runs in a season.
October 28: 'Abdullah Muhammad Idris al-Sihayni is hanged by British colonial authorities.
November 7-11: Italian Fascist Party (PNF) is formally established in its third Fascist Congress. The 1921 party program demands an end to taxes on inheritances and bondholders, abolition of public policy strikes, a large standing army, and liberty for the Roman Catholic Church to perform its "spiritual duties."\
December: South African mining companies, electrical power stations (the Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company or VFP) and engineering companies announce wage cuts for white workers.
December 25: Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs is released from prison.
