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1919

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Categories: 1919

Years :	1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922

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**1919 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1919 MCMXIX
Ab urbe condita	2672
Armenian calendar	1368
Chinese calendar	4615 – 4616 戊午 – 己未
Hebrew calendar	5679 – 5680
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1974 – 1975
- Shaka Samvat	1841 – 1842
- Kali Yuga	5020 – 5021
Iranian calendar	1297 – 1298
Islamic calendar	1338 – 1339
Japanese calendar	Taishō 8
Runic calendar	2169

1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel prizes

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Events

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January

January 1 — Iolaire sinking disaster
January 1 — Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company
January 5 — Spartacist uprising — Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution
January 9 — Spartacus revolutionary council folds – Friedrich Ebert orders Freikorps into action
January 10-January 12 — Freikorps attack Spartacus supporters around Berlin
January 11 — Romania annexes Transylvania.
January 13 — Worker's councils in Berlin end the general strike — Spartacus week is over
January 15 — Murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the aftermath of Spartacus uprising
January 15 — The Boston Molasses Disaster: Wave of molasses sweeps through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150
January 15 — Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland
January 16 — The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States
January 18 — World War I: A peace conference opens in Versailles, France.
January 18 — Bentley Motors is founded
January 21 — the First Dáil Éireann meets in the Mansion House in Dublin. It is from this meeting that the Irish state dates its existence.
January 23 — The Uprising of Khotin breaks out in Romania.
January 25 — The League of Nations is founded

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February-April

February 1 — The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
February 3 — Soviet troops occupy Ukraine
February 11 — Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
February 14 — Polish-Soviet War begins
February 25 — Oregon places a 1 cent per US gallon (26 ¢/L) tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
February 26 — An act of the United States Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
March 1 — March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea.
March 2 — The first Communist International meets in Moscow
March 15 — The American Legion forms in Paris
March 21 — The Chinese High School was established in Singapore by Mr. Tan Kah Kee
March 21 - Hungarian Soviet Republic established by Bela Kun.
March 23 — In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
March 31 — General strike begins in the Ruhr
April 6-April 7 — Communist People's Republic of Munich founded
April 13 — At the Amritsar Massacre, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Indians.
April 14 — Emperor of Austria moves to exile in Switzerland
April 23 — Constituent Assembly of Estonia convenes to its first session
April 25 — Bauhaus movement founded
April 25 — ANZAC day is celebrated for the first time in Australia.
April 25 — Pancho Villa takes Parral in Mexico — hangs mayor and his two sons

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May-June

May 1 — Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police
May 1 — Weimar Republic troops and Freikorps take over Munich and crush the Soviet Republic of Bavaria
May 1 — The May Day Riots of 1919 break out in Cleveland, Ohio – two people killed, forty injured, and one hundred and sixteen arrested
May 3 — People's Republic of Munich is crushed
May 4 — May Fourth Movement opposes foreign colonizers in China
May 15 — Winnipeg launches general strike for better wages and working conditions.
May 16 — US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read departs Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight
May 16- Greek Army invades Izmir
May 17 — Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike
May 19 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands on Samsun on the Turkish Black Sea Coast to start the Turkish War of Independence.
May 23 — The University of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles. Initially called Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC), it is eventually renamed the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
May 25 — Volcano Kelut erupts in Java – 16.000 dead
May 29 — Einstein's theory of general relativity confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun.
June 4 — Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
June 14 — John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight (they landed at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland the next day). [1]
June 15 — Pancho Villa attacks Ciudad Juarez. When the bullets begin to fly to the US side of the border, 2 units of the US 7th Cavalry regiment cross the border and repulse Villa's forces
June 21 — Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during Winnipeg General Strike.
June 21 — Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. Nine Germans died.
June 28 — The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.

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July-November

July 6 — The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
July 31 — Strike of policemen in London and Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers. Over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.
August 11 — In Germany, the Weimar Constitution is passed into law.
August 18 — Destruction of Bolshevik fleet at Kronstadt near Petrograd by British aircraft and torpedo boats in combined operation.
August 19 — Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
16 August-26 August — First Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
August 31 — American Communist Party is established
September 10 — Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, ending World War I with Austria.
September 10-September 15: The Florida Keys Hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas.
September 23 — Belenenses is founded.
September 27 — Last British troops leave Archangel, Russia and leave fighting to the Russians
September 28 — Omaha Riot — lynch mob besieges the police station and courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska and lynch alleged black rapist Will Brown
October 1 — Elaine Race Riot breaks out in Arkansas
October 2 — US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
October 9 — Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
October 9 — Boston police strike
October 13 — Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation signed.
October 28 — Prohibition begins: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
November — At end of month health officials declare the global Spanish Flu Pandemic over
November 10 — The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
November 11 — The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
November 16 — Admiral Horthy conquers Budapest from Bela Kuns Soviet Republic
November 27 — The Treaty of Neuilly is signed between Allies and Bulgaria.
November 28 — The American-born Lady Astor is elected to the British House of Commons, becoming the first female MP to take a seat on December 1.

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December

December 5 — Turkish ministry of war releases Greeks, Armenians and Jews from military service
December 12 — Gabriele D'Annunzio with his entourage marches into Fiume and convinces the Italian troops to join him
December 14 - Alabama celebrates the first centenary of its statehood.
December 25 - The opening of Cliftonhill stadium in Coatbridge the home of Albion Rovers F.C. The match saw them lose 2 - 0 to St. Mirren.
December 30 — Lincoln's Inn, in London admits its first female bar student.