What Happened in 1919
16 historical events, 14 notable births, and 9 notable deaths in 1919.
Major Events
January 1919
1919 — year
Paris Peace Conference — meeting of the Allied Powers after World War I
Spartacist uprising — general strike and armed struggle in Berlin in Jan. 1919 in connection with the November Revolution that broke out following Germany's defeat in WW1
1919 South American Championship — Football tournament edition
Great Molasses Flood — wave of molasses which killed 21 people in 1919 in Boston
1919 Egyptian revolution — 1919 revolution in Egypt
1919 in film — overview of the events of 1919 in film
Hutsul Republic — 1919 unrecognised state in western Ukraine
June 1919
Treaty of Versailles — most important of the peace treaties of the First World War which ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers
April 1919
Jallianwala Bagh massacre — British Indian Army troops fire their rifles into crowd of unarmed Indian civilians (1919)
September 1919
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye — treaty signed on 10 September 1919
November 1919
Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine — 1919 treaty
May 1919
May Fourth Movement — Chinese cultural and political movement beginning with protests on 4 May 1919 in Beijing
March 1919
March First Movement — Korean national movement against Japanese occupation
August 1919
Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 — peace treaty of the 1919 Anglo-Afghan War
Hungarian–Romanian War — war (15 April – 3 August 1919) fought between the First Hungarian Republic and the Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Kingdom of Romania