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| 1924 |
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| The novelist Wladyslaw S. Reymont (1868–1925), best known for Chlopi (The Peasants, 1904–6), won the Nobel Prize for literature. Poland's prominent literary figures also included the lyric poet Jan Kasprowicz (1860–1929). | 1 |
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| 1925, Dec. 28 |
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| An important land law was passed, providing for the distribution of about 500,000 acres of land to the peasants annually for ten years. | 2 |
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| 1926, May 10 |
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| Vincent Witos, the leader of the Peasant Party, formed a government. | 3 |
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| May 12–14 |
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| PILSUDSKI LED A MILITARY REVOLT against the government. After two days of fighting Pilsudski took the capital, forcing Witos to resign. President Wojciechowski also resigned (May 15), whereupon Pilsudski was elected to take his place. Pilsudski declined. | 4 |
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| June 1 |
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| IGNACE MOSCICKI, friend of Pilsudski, became president. Pilsudski was the real ruler of the country, though he acted through the president. | 5 |
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| Aug. 5 |
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| A revision of the constitution gave the president much greater power. | 6 |
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| Oct. 2 |
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| Pilsudski assumed the premiership, which he retained until June 27, 1928. His coup and practical dictatorship had aroused great resentment and opposition among the parties of the Left. Under Pilsudski the government resorted to the most drastic methods of repression. The Sejm was dissolved and 54 opposition deputies arrested (Nov. 28, 1927), but new elections indicated the continuance of strong opposition to the rule of the military (rule of the “colonels”). | 7 |
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