| 1916 | Europe • Great Britain | The Easter Rising in Dublin fails to free Ireland from British rule. |
| 1917 | North America • USA | The US enters the First World War on the Allied side. |
| 1917 | Europe • Russia | Russian Revolution [Read about] |
| 1917 | Middle East | Balfour Declaration gives support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
| 1918 | Europe | Armistice is signed ending the First World War. (11 November 1918) |
| 1918 | Europe • Germany | Following the First World War the German Empire collapses and the Weimar Republic is born. This initiates a period of political, social and artistic upheaval that stimulates new ideas in design, typography, art and photography. |
| 1919 | Europe | Treaty of Versailles is signed and settles, for a time, the issues raised by the First World War. (28 June 1919) |
| 1923 | North America • Mexico | Mexican revolutionary "Pancho" Villa (1878–1923) is assassinated |
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