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[edit] Events of 1919

[edit] January

January 1: Iolaire will sink.

January 18: Bentley Motors is founded.

• January 1 - In Scotland, HMS Iolaire sinks at rocks: 205 die.
• 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.
  • The Boston Molasses Disaster: Wave of molasses sweeps through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150.
  • 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.

David Kirkwood being detained by police during the 1919 Battle of George Square

• January 31 — 1919 Battle of George Square.

Image File history File links Admiralty-yacht-HMS-Iolaire-ship-Amalthaea-1908. ... Image File history File links Admiralty-yacht-HMS-Iolaire-ship-Amalthaea-1908. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... The sinking of the Iolaire on 1 January 1919 was the worst maritime disaster in United Kingdom waters in peacetime since 1878. ... This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Bentleys winged B badge and hood ornament Bentley Motors Limited is a British based manufacturer of luxury automobiles and Grand Tourers. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... HMS is a TLA that may stand for: Her Majestys Ship or His Majestys Ship (Royal Navy) hour-minute-second Halb Mastwurf Sicherung Harvard Medical School Haslemere Musical Society Hazardous materials safety Headend management station Health monitoring system Heavy melting scrap Helmet-mounted sight Her Majestys Service... The sinking of the Iolaire on 1 January 1919 was the worst maritime disaster in United Kingdom waters in peacetime since 1878. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... Edsel Bryant Ford (November 6, 1893 – May 26, 1943), son of Henry Ford, was born in Detroit. ... Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the worlds third largest automaker based on vehicle sales in 2005. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Spartacist uprising, also known as the January uprising, was a general strike (and the armed battles accompanying it) in Germany from January 5 to January 12, 1919. ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Friedrich Ebert (February 4, 1871–February 28, 1925) was a German politician (SPD), who served as the 9th Chancellor of Germany and its first president during the Weimar period. ... The designation of Freikorps (German for Free Corps, i. ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Map of Romania with Transylvania in yellow Transylvania (Romanian: or Transilvania; Hungarian: ; German: ; Serbian: / Transilvanija or Ердељ / Erdelj) is a historical region in central and western Romania. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... A general strike is a strike action by an entire labour force in a city, region or country. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 – January 15, 1919, in Polish Róża Luksemburg) was a Polish-born German Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. ... â–¶ (help· info) (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany. ... Aftermath of the disaster The Boston Molasses Disaster which is also known as the Great Molasses Flood or The Great Boston Molasses Tragedy occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. ... Molasses or treacle is a thick syrup by-product from the processing of the sugarcane or sugar beet into sugar. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1 Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area    - City 232. ... Ignacy Jan Paderewski Ignacy Jan Paderewski (November 6, 1860 – June 29, 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat and politician, the third Prime Minister of Poland. ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Amendment XVIII (the Eighteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, along with the passage of the Volstead Act (which defined intoxicating liquors), established Prohibition. ... 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[edit] February

• February 3 — Soviet troops occupy Ukraine
• February 11 — Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
• February 14 — Polish-Soviet War begins
• February 23 - Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
• 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).
• The Red Army was expelled from the entire territory of Estonia.

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[edit] March

• 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 Béla Kun.
• March 23 — In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
• March 31 — General strike begins in the Ruhr

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[edit] April

• April 6-April 7 — Bavarian Soviet Republic 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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[edit] May

• May 1 - Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police
• 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 — Weimar Republic troops and Freikorps occupy Munich and crush the Bavarian Soviet Republic
• 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 İzmir.
• 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 is tested/confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.^[1]

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[edit] June

• 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). [2]
• 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.
  • Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. Nine Germans died.
  • American Winged Foot Express caught on fire over downtown Chicago, two passengers, one crewmember and ten people on the ground were killed, only two people parachuted to the ground safety^[2].
• June 23 — Estonian army wins the Battle of Wenden in Northern-Latvia against the German Landeswehr.
• June 28 — The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.

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[edit] July

• July 6 — The British dirigible R34 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.

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[edit] August

• 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.
• August 16-August 26 — First Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
• August 31 — American Communist Party is established

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[edit] September

• 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

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[edit] October

• 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.