After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek, seized control of the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1927 ).

Using a Nipkow disk, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird succeeded in demonstrating the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925, and of moving, monochromatic images in 1926.

Ugyen Wangchuck died in 1926 and was succeeded by his son, Jigme Wangchuck ( reigned 1926 – 52 ).

In 1926 Lloyd George succeeded Asquith as Liberal leader.

In 1926 he succeeded Robert Weimann ( 1870 – 1925 ) as Apostolic Administrator of Schneidemühl ( today's Piła ).

Lloyd George succeeded him as chairman of the Liberal Members of Parliament, but Asquith remained overall head of the party until 1926, when Lloyd George, who had quarrelled with Asquith once again over whether or not to support the General Strike ( Asquith supported the government ), succeeded him in that position as well.

According to Fritz Peters, Gurdjieff was in New York from November 1925 to the spring of 1926, when he succeeded in raising over $ 100, 000.

Overlands continued to be produced until 1926 when the marque was succeeded by the Willys Whippet.

In 1926, George Weston succeeded Garvey in a UNIA Convention Election, becoming the next 2nd elected President-General of the UNIA, Inc.

After Weston's 1926 election to President-General, he was succeeded by Frederick Augustus Toote ( 1929 ), Clifford Bourne ( 1930 ), Lionel Antonio Francis ( 1931 – 1934 ), Henrietta Vinton Davis ( 1934 – 1940 ), Lionel Antonio Francis ( 1940 – 1961 ), Captain A L King ( 1961 – 1981 ) and Milton Kelly, Jr. ( 1981 – 2007 ).

He was in 1921 appointed as governor general by King George V, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Lloyd George, to replace the Duke of Devonshire as viceroy, and occupied that post until succeeded by the Viscount Willingdon in 1926.

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad succeeded Old Colony in operating the branch and rail passenger service ceased in anticipation of the Boston Elevated Railway expansion on September 4, 1926,

But eventually he was persuaded and began the coup of May 1926, which succeeded with little violence.

His challenge succeeded on April 12, 1926 when the Senate voted by a margin of 45 to 41 to declare Steck the victor.

In 1907, his great-grandson, Marino Torlonia succeeded to the title as 4th prínce of Civitella-Cesi, a title he inherited from his older brother, Augusto, in 1926.

In 1919, Javakhishvili succeeded the noted chemist Petre Melikishvili as the second rector of the university: he served until June 1926, when, in the aftermath of anti-Soviet August Uprising of 1924, tolerance of non-Marxist intellectuals began to contract.

Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan (), KCMG, NGIV ( Nishan Ghaazeege ' Izzatheri Veriya, ) ( Insignia of the Most Distinguished Order of Ghazi ) ( September 2, 1926 – November 22, 2008 ) was a Maldivian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Maldives under Sultan Muhammad Fareed Didi from 1957 to 1968 and succeeded him to become the first President of the Second Republic from 1968 to 1978.

Brewster succeeded Baxter as governor in 1925 and, with the help of the Klan and Maine State Senate president Buzzell, sabotaged Baxter's candidacy for the U. S. Senate in 1926.

Their eldest son, the third Baron, represented North Cumberland in the British House of Commons as a Unionist from 1922 to 1926 and served in the National Government as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1931 to 1934 and as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1934 to 1939. the title is held by the latter's son, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1959.

In 1926, Dysart succeeded Peter J. Veniot as leader of the Liberal party.

Ny-Ålesund was the basis for four attempts between 1925 and 1928, including Roald Amundsen's attempt with first a flying boat ; Floyd Bennett and Richard E. Byrd claimed they succeeded in 1926, but this has since been rejected.

He joined the BBC as an administrator in 1926, was Assistant Director of Programmes from 1929 to 1932, then Empire Service Director, 1932 – 1935, Controller of Programmes, 1935 – 1938, Deputy Director-General, 1938 – 1942, and in 1942 succeeded Frederick Ogilvie ( jointly with Robert Foot ) as Director-General.

For Gilbert Jespersen, who succeeded Paul Hagemann as flautist of the Copenhagen Quintet, he wrote his Flute Concerto in 1926 ; two years later, he composed his Clarinet Concerto for the group's clarinettist, Aage Oxenvad.

The eastern section of the street sees a number of the oldest buildings, including Ottawa's post office from 1939 ; the Ottawa Electric Building, built in 1926 by the founders of the Ottawa Electric Railway, Ottawa's streetcar system, Ottawa's first high-rise: the Bible House / old James Hope building at 61 Sparks, built in 1910 ; and branches of a number of Canada's banks from the same era.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

* 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight ( Varney is the root company of United Airlines ).

* 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

During this period he also completed his first public buildings, the Jyväskylä Workers ' Club in 1925, the Jyväskylä Defence Corps building in 1926 and the Seinajoki Defence Corp building in 1924-29.

* 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world ( d. 1997 )

The new central bank first issued bank-notes during 1926.

Unlike many artists who were " discovered " and recorded in their normal venues, in December 1925 or January 1926, he was taken to Chicago, Illinois, to record his first tracks.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Since these first accounts, Bulgarian authorities had organized several population censuses: 1892, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, 1926, 1934, 1946, 1956, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2011.

* An escaped convict from Dartmoor figures in Nevil Shute's first novel Marazan, published in 1926.

It was popularized by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin ( 1856 – 1926 ) in 1893, 1896 and 1899 in his first detailed textbook descriptions of a condition that would eventually be reframed into a substantially different disease concept and relabeled as schizophrenia.

The first electromagnetic lens was developed in 1926 by Hans Busch.

He was regarded as having a sound tactical knowledge of the game and being an inspirational leader, as he led the side into the finals in 1940 for the first time since 1926, when the side finished 3rd.

When Hugo Gernsback published the first scientifiction magazine, Amazing Stories in 1926, he allowed for a large letter column which printed reader's addresses.

Fulham became the first British team to sell hot dogs at their ground in 1926.

Ackerman saw his first " imagi-movie " in 1922 ( One Glorious Day ), purchased his first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926, created The Boys ' Scientifiction Club in 1930 (" girl-fans were as rare as unicorn's horns in those days ").

Guido Brignone ’ s Maciste all ’ Inferno ( 1926 ), the first film he saw, would mark him in ways linked to Dante and the cinema throughout his entire career.

* 1926: John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of a working television system.

He also worked on the scripts for Honesty-The Best Policy in 1926 and Joseph von Sternberg's Underworld in 1927, famous for being one of the first gangster film.