1929
Wall Street crashes
On Black Thursday the New York Stock Exchange dropped eleven percent at the opening bell.
Lateran Treaty creates Vatican City
After sixty years of cold war between the Italian state and the Pope, Mussolini signed an agreement with Pius XI granting a tiny Vatican enclave full…
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
In a Chicago garage, men dressed as police lined seven members of Bugs Moran's gang against a brick wall and cut them down with tommy guns.
Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury
A Mississippi writer nobody had heard of put out a novel told partly through the consciousness of a mentally disabled man, partly in flashbacks and syntactic…
Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway's novel of an American ambulance driver's love affair during the Italian retreat from Caporetto captured the lost generation's…
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Frequently asked
What happened in the year 1929?
Saeculum lists 5 events from 1929. The most significant is Wall Street crashes: On Black Thursday the New York Stock Exchange dropped eleven percent at the opening bell. By the following Tuesday it had lost a quarter of its value.
What era was 1929 part of?
1929 falls within the Modern Era (1901-2000). World wars, cold war, and the splitting of the atom.
Which regions saw notable events in 1929?
The events from 1929 span North America and Europe.