April San Remo Britain is given the mandate in Palestine , Trans jordan and Mesopotamia (renamed Iraq , a territory created out of the Ottoman provinces of Basra, Baghdad and Mosul)
April San Remo Faisal I is installed as King of Iraq
The GreatIraq i Revolution, known in Iraq as Ath Thawra al Iraq iyya al Kubra and by the British as the Arab Revolt of 1920
Aug A tribal revolt is launched throughout Iraq i territory after Arnold Wilson, the High Commissioner to Iraq , refuses to allow for the possibility any amount of Iraq i self-government
Aug A tribal revolt is launched throughout Iraq i territory after Arnold Wilson, the High Commissioner to Iraq , refuses to allow for the possibility any amount of Iraq i self-government