1921 - UK agrees to the foundation of the Irish Free State. 1924 - First UK government led by the Labour party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. 1926 - General Strike arising from coal dispute. 1929 - World stock market crash. 1931 - Economic crisis.
Millions are unemployed.
National Government coalition formed. 1936 - King Edward VIII abdicates over relationship with an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson. 1938 - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain meets the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, in Munich. Chamberlain says he has averted war with Germany. World War II 1939 - Germany invades Poland.