* 1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region ( Memel Territory ) into Lithuania.

* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region ( Memel Territory ).

** Memel Territory ( Memelland ), the area separated from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, later called Klaipėda Region

* The northeastern part of East Prussia, named Memel Territory, which was placed under the control of France ( and was later annexed by Lithuania, as the Klaipėda Region ),

The Klaipėda Region () or Memel Territory () was defined by the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 when it was put under the administration of the Council of Ambassadors.

The then predominantly ethnic German ( other ethnic groups, Prussian Lithuanians and Memellanders constituted the other ethnic groups ) Memel Territory, situated between the river and the town of that name, was occupied by Lithuania in the " Klaipėda Revolt " of 1923.

* Memel Territory and Klaipėda Revolt

The Klaipėda Convention was approved by the League Council on 14 March 1924, and then by the Allied powers and Lithuania.

With the exception of the Klaipėda Region, which became a mandated territory of the League of Nations in 1920 by the Treaty of Versailles and was annexed to Lithuania from 1923 to 1939, the area was part of Prussia until 1945.

After Lithuanians seized the Klaipėda Region in January 1923, the League saw recognition of Lithuanian interest in Klaipėda as adequate compensation for the loss of Vilnius.

A western subdialect once existed in the Klaipėda region, but it became extinct after World War II after its inhabitants fled the region, as a result of being expelled or persecuted by the Soviet authorities ( since the 16th or even 15th century the Samogitians of the Klaipėda region called themselves " Lietuvininkai ", and since the end of 19th century they called themselves " Prūsai "; after World War II the territory of the western subdialect was resettled mainly by northern and southern Samogitians, and by other Lithuanians also ).

On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Klaipėda County remains as the territorial and statistical unit.

The political border set by the Treaty of Melno had been the same since the treaty to 1923, when the Klaipėda region ( Memelland ) was incorporated into Lithuania.

In Lithuania, marshrutkas have been in service in a variety of cities since the end of the 1980s – mostly in Vilnius and Kaunas, but also used in Klaipėda, Šiauliai and elsewhere.

The Klaipėda Region (), which was dissected from East Prussia in 1920, continued the usage of the terms Landesdirektor ( i. e. government member ) and Landesdirektorium (; i. e. government ).

Lithuania's major warm-water port of Klaipėda lies at the narrow mouth of Curonian Lagoon, a shallow lagoon extending south to Kaliningrad and separated from the Baltic sea by Curonian Spit, where Kuršių Nerija National Park was established for its remarkable sand dunes.

The port city of Memel ( now Klaipėda ) and the surrounding area, with a predominantly German population, was under provisional Allied control according to Article 99 of the Treaty of Versailles.

Lithuania was given the province of Samogitia, with the port of Palanga, but the city of Klaipėda was left to the Order.

Following Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II in 1945, war-torn East Prussia was divided at Joseph Stalin's insistence between the Soviet Union ( the Kaliningrad Oblast in the Russian SFSR and the constituent counties of the Klaipėda Region in the Lithuanian SSR ) and the People's Republic of Poland ( the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ).

Kaller was also appointed apostolic visitator to the then 8, 000 Catholic faithful in Memelland, a Lithuanian-annexed formerly East Prussian area, whose then four Catholic parishes had been seceded from Ermland diocese and subsequently formed part of the Territorial Prelature of Memel ( Klaipėda ); ; ; ) existing between 1926 and 1991.

It was basically a modification of " Hymans ' plan ", with the difference that the Klaipėda Region ( the area in East Prussia north of the Neman River ) was to be incorporated into Lithuania in exchange for granting certain level of internal autonomy to the Central Lithuania.

After the Klaipėda Revolt of January 1923, in the Memelland, which had been separated from Germany, he was made commissioner there on February 20, but due to disagreements with Prime Minister Ernestas Galvanauskas, he resigned from his post.

Under border changes promulgated at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, the former German Memelland, with its Baltic port Memel ( Lithuanian: Klaipėda ), was again transferred to Lithuania, or as it was after 1945 the Lithuanian SSR.

Before Klaipėda was attached to Lithuania, the city was second after Kaunas by population size.

In 1932 a railroad to Klaipėda was built and it connected the city to the Western markets.

In 1923 Šiauliai population was in third place in Kaunas and Klaipėda.

* 1939 The Institute of trade was moved from Klaipėda, it was the first Higher Education school in Šiauliai

However, the eastern parts of Lithuania, including the Vilnius region, were annexed by Poland, while the Klaipėda Region was taken over by Nazi Germany in 1939.

Under the occupied territory of the area ( 24 km ² ) remained fourth in the city of Kaunas, Klaipėda and Panevėžys.

A few days thereafter, Germany occupied Czechoslovakia and then the Klaipėda Region ( Memel ), making a German war with Poland far more likely.

* The Lithuanian city of Klaipėda ( Memel ) is founded by the Teutonic Knights.

* Klaipėda ( Memel, Lithuania, served by DFDS Lisco ),

In 1931, he tied for 2nd-5th at the first Baltic Championship in Klaipėda, which was won by Isakas Vistaneckis.

The original Scalovian and Curonian territory was conquered around 1252 by the Teutonic Knights, who constructed Memelburg (" Memel Castle ") and the city of Memel ( now usually known by its Lithuanian name Klaipėda ).

Giving the Prussian Lithuanian name first and followed by the German name, the major cities in former Lithuania Minor were Klaipėda ( Memel ) and Tilžė ( Tilsit ).

The Lithuanian victory in the Battle of Saule temporarily stabilized the northern front, but the Christian orders continued to make gains along the Baltic coast, founding the city of Klaipėda ( Memel ).

Vilnius lies from the Baltic Sea and Klaipėda, the chief Lithuanian seaport.

Partnership between Kuji and Klaipėda began in 1989, 1 year before the independence of Lithuania, hence becoming the first Lithuanian sister city in Japan.

Smetona participated in the activity of the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union that had staged the Klaipėda Revolt, which gave him greater name-recognition.

The Russian side of the Curonian Spit belongs to Zelenogradsk district of the Kaliningrad Oblast, while the Lithuanian side is partitioned among Klaipėda city municipality and Neringa municipality.

In 1997 the band finally decided to disband and performed 3 huge gigs in Lithuanian cities of Klaipėda, Kaunas, and Vilnius, with an attendance of 60, 000 in the final performance on 17 May in Vingis Park of Vilnius.

The part of Kaliningrad Oblast ( excluding the city of Kaliningrad and its surroundings ), a few territories in Poland's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, as well as the following territories in modern-day Lithuania: the Klaipėda district municipality, the Šilutė district municipality, Klaipėda city, Pagėgiai municipality, and Neringa municipality had once ethnically, linguistically and culturally been the latter Lithuanian region.

The administrative Lithuanian Province ( part of the administrative province of Sambia ) ( about 10 000 km² ) comprised four districts of that time: Klaipėda ( Memel ), Tilžė ( Tilsit, Sovetsk ), Ragainė ( Raganita, Ragnit, Neman ) and Įsrutis ( Insterburg, Cerniachovsk ).

Ringaudas Bronislovas Songaila ( born March 20, 1929 in Klaipėda ) was an official of the Lithuanian SSR nomenclatura.

In 1923 the Klaipėda region was annexed by Lithuania and the port of Klaipėda had became a part of the Lithuanian railway system.

Steponas Darius ( known as Stephen Darius in the USA ; born Steponas Darašius ; January 8, 1896 in Rubiškė, now Klaipėda district of Lithuania – July 17, 1933 near Soldin, Germany ) was a Lithuanian American pilot.

Across the 0. 5 km wide strait, on the Lithuanian mainland, is the port city of Klaipėda.

In the Lithuanian capital Vilnius Russians make up 14, 43 % of the population, in Lithuania's third largest city Klaipėda 28 %.

Their adversaries were unable to achieve their goal of capturing the Lithuanian sea-coast from Klaipėda to Šventoji.