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| 1923, Jan. 11 |
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| INSURRECTION IN MEMEL, engineered by Lithuanians. The city, which was predominantly German, had been under inter-Allied control since 1918. Lithuanian troops now occupied it, obliging a French garrison to withdraw. An inter-Allied commission was sent out to investigate. | 1 |
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| Feb. 16 |
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| The council of ambassadors decided to grant Lithuania sovereignty but to constitute Memel an autonomous region in the Lithuanian state. Lithuania accepted (March 16), and the Memel Statute was signed by Britain, France, Italy, and Japan on May 8, 1924. | 2 |
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| May 12–13 |
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| Elections for a second Seimas (parliament) took place after dissolution of the first Seimas when no party was able to form a government. These elections led to a coalition government of Christian Democrats and Peasant Populists. The new government passed a number of important pieces of legislation: the tax system was normalized, health protection was improved, central banks were established, and work and industrial laws were introduced, including a workmen's compensation law. The government also established the land bank in 1924, to extend credit to farmers, and a social insurance administration in 1926. | 3 |
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