Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

3. The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk

29. Died. Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in United Kingdom (b. 1852)