1919 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1919?
- January 3, 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
- January 18, 1919 – Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- January 21, 1919 – Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland’s first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
- January 31, 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
- February 1, 1919 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 5, 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- February 11, 1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
- March 1, 1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
- April 1, 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
- April 10, 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- June 6, 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
- July 13, 1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
- September 4, 1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
- September 10, 1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- September 11, 1919 – U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
- September 16, 1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.
- October 3, 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series.
- October 9, 1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
- November 11, 1919 – 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 Industrial Workers of the World.
- December 26, 1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
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