1914 | Europe • Great Britain
| The Vorticist Manifesto is published in their journal Blast. |
1916 | Europe • Germany | Albert Einstein proposes the General Theory of Relativity. |
1917 | Europe • France | Marcel Duchamp exhibits his surrealist work The Fountain using a upturned urinal. |
1919 | Europe • Germany
| Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus school of design. |
1919 | Europe • France | The French film director Abel Gance (1889-1981) releases the anti-war film J'accuse!. In it he uses wounded actors to portray the ghosts of fallen men. In 1924 John Heartfield created the photomontage After ten years: fathers and sons in which he uses skeletons and marching soldiers to depict the futility of war. |
1922 | North America • USA | Hollywood's first Technicolor film Toll of the Sea is released. |
1922 | Africa • Egypt | The tomb of King Tutankhamen is discovered by Howard Carter. |
1924 | Europe • France | André Breton (1896–1966) publishes the first Surrealist manifesto |
1924 | North America • USA | AT&T sends photographs over a wire. (20 May 1924) |
1925 | North America • USA | The Scopes Monkey Trial takes place in Tennessee. |
1925 | Europe • Great Britain | John Logie Baird transmits the first wireless photographic picture. (25 October 1925) |
1925 | North America • USA | F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. |
1927 | North America • USA | The first talking picture The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson is released. |
1927 | Europe | First trans-Atlantic telephone call |
1928 | North America • USA | Mickey Mouse is shown for the first time by Walt Disney |
1928 | Europe • Spain | Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) and Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) makes Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), |
1929 | North America • USA | Museum of Modern Art opens in New York. |
1931 | Europe • Spain | Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) paints The Persistence of Memory |
1932 | North America • USA | Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) flies solo across the Atlantic. |