WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1923
Find out what all happened January to December 1923

Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations. (26. September 1923)

Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel. (10. January 1923)

The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine. (29. September 1923)

24 Hours of Le Mans, was first held, and has since been run annually in June. (26. May 1923)

Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. (9. January 1923)

The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC. (31. December 1923)

In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego. (24. April 1923)

The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul. (6. October 1923)

As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding (2. August 1923)

The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people. (1. September 1923)

Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. (8. September 1923)

The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. (1. July 1923)

Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar. (15. February 1923)

Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey. (13. October 1923)

The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. (16. October 1923)

Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. (16. February 1923)

Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas (10. February 1923)

Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. (29. October 1923)

The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic. (15. November 1923)

The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. (26. April 1923)