Geddes Axe
1922 · Event
The Geddes Committee's spending cuts slash the armed forces, education and public housing to pay down war debt.
On these timelines: United Kingdom (combined), Economic History, Master
More from United Kingdom (combined)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace (1851)
- Death of Henry VIII (1547)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain begins (450)
- Bloody Sunday in Derry (1972)
- Death of Queen Elizabeth II (2022)
- UK joins the EEC (1973)
- Brexit (2016)
Around 1922
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)