Gen. Isidor Lopes launches a bloody but unsuccessful rebellion in Brazil against the ineffectual government of Artur da Silva Bernardes, who then brings about minor economic reforms.

3 Aug.

Anglo-Polish novelist Joseph Conrad dies at age sixty-six.

8 Sept.

A military junta in Chile overthrows the liberal, reformist government of President Arturo Alessandri Palma. He is restored through a coup d'etat on 23 January 1925 but resigns on 1 October 1925 because of continuing Chilean disorder.

10 Sept.

A revolt against the Soviet government breaks out in the Soviet republic of Georgia.

12 Oct.

Anatole France, France's leading literary figure and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1921, dies at age eighty.

13 Oct.

Ibn Sa'ud, sultan of Nedj and leader of the Arabian Wahabis, captures Mecca in an attempt to expand his dominion in the Arabian Peninsula. By December 1925 he has also taken Medina, site of Muhammad's tomb.

29 Oct.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, British author of Little...