La Prisonniere (The Captive), a section of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past), is published posthumously in France.

The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran's meditative prose poem, is published in London.

Ich und du (I and Thou), Martin Buber's most famous work of philosophy, is published in Vienna.

English-language production of Czech writer Karel Capek's drama R. U.R. (Czechoslovakia, 1921) introduces the term robot, which refers to a machine with human characteristics.

10 Jan.

France sends 100,000 troops into the Ruhr to seize German assets as war reparations. On 17 February German saboteurs sink a coal barge in the Rhine-Herne Canal, the first of many acts of sabotage in protest of French occupation.

11 Jan.

Constantine I, former king of Greece, dies at age fifty-four. He is succeeded by George II, a puppet of the military.

1 Feb.

Yaqui Indian soldiers put down a trolley car strike in Mexico City, killing...