Nancy Cunard and Louis Aragon started their affair Benjamin Peret joins the Communist Party Rene Magritte, Edouard Mesens, and others started a Surrealist group in Belgium. Michel Leiris m. Louise Godon, stepdaughter of Picasso's dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler Georges Malkine Portrait of Robert Desnos Alexander Calder moved to Paris Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years. Martial law is declared in Britain because of the general strike The French navy bombards Damascus because of the Druze riots Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. The sudden death of Rudolph Valentino at the age of only 31 years old causes mass grief and hysteria around the world. All Italian Communist deputies are arrested Back to 1925 Forward to 1927 Back to Timeline