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next turn year 1919

events

January[edit] Main article: January 1919

January 1: Iolaire sinks. January 1

HMY Iolaire sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed.[2]

Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company.

January 5 – In Germany: Spartacist uprising in Berlin: with the failure of friedrich eberts government to pull germany out of its current economic depression and famines only worsening eventually caused the leaders of the KPD and the USPD to call for a general strike with 500,000 participants however within the strike some of the participants organized a plan to oust the SPD and launch a communist revolution. communists seized key buildings throughout berlin and armed themselves at the same time KPD leaders convinced several military regiments to join their side. frikorp units attempted to crush the uprising ending in failure causing revolutionaries lead by karl Liebknecht and rosa Luxembourg to storm the Reichstag and declare the formation of the german socialist republic....

The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP), predecessor of the Nazi Party, is formed by the merger of Anton Drexler's Committee of Independent Workmen with journalist Karl Harrer's Political Workers' Circle.

January 6 – Danone, as known well for diary brand on worldwide, founded in Barcelona, Spain.[page needed]

January 7 The Tragic Week in Argentina, an anarchist uprising in Buenos Aires, begins; it is later suppressed by official forces.[4]

January 8 – The funeral of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, is held at Christ Church Oyster Bay, Long Island; Roosevelt had died in his sleep at the age of 60, two days earlier.[5]

January 9 – Friedrich Ebert orders the Freikorps into action in Berlin.

January 10–12 – The Freikorps attacks Spartacist supporters around Berlin.

January 11 Romania annexes Transylvania.

The Georgian genocide occurs in Alagir.[clarification needed]

January 14 – Estonian War of Independence: Estonian forces liberate Tartu from the Red Army. January 15

Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 33 and injuring 150.

January 16 The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition, is ratified.

Pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes the second Prime Minister of Poland. January 18

Bentley Motors Limited is founded in England.

January 19 The Monarchy of the North is established in Northern Portugal.

1919 German federal election, first under the Weimar Republic and the first in Germany with female suffrage.

January 21 Dáil Éireann meets for the first time in the Mansion House, Dublin. It comprises Sinn Féin members elected in the 1918 general election who have, in accordance with their manifesto, not taken their seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, but chosen to declare an independent Irish Republic. In the first shots of the Anglo-Irish War, two Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) men are killed in an ambush at Soloheadbeg in Tipperary.

Emperor Gojong of the Korean Empire dies.

January 23 – The Khotin Uprising breaks out in Khotyn, Ukraine.

January 25 – The League of Nations is founded in Paris, France.

January 31 – Battle of George Square: The British Army is called in to deal with riots, during negotiations over working hours in Glasgow, Scotland.

David Kirkwood being detained by police during the Battle of George Square February[edit]

Main article: February 1919

February 5 United Artists (UA) is incorporated by D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.

February 6 – The Seattle General Strike begins in the United States, affecting over 65,000 workers.

February 11

The Seattle General Strike ends, when Federal troops are summoned by the State of Washington's Attorney General.

February 25 – Oregon places a one cent per US gallon (0.26¢/liter) tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

February 26 – Grand Canyon National Park: An act of the United States Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park.

February 28 Amānullāh Khān becomes King of Afghanistan.

An independence mission to the U.S., funded by the Philippine legislature, sets out from Manila to present its case to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker.[10]

March[edit] Main article: March 1919

March 1 – The March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea is formed.

March 3 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the conviction of Charles Schenck.

March 4

March 5 – A. Mitchell Palmer becomes United States Attorney General, through recess appointment. March 8 The Rowlatt Act is passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in London, indefinitely extending the emergency provisions of the Defence of India Act 1915.

British authorities in Egypt arrest populist leader Saad Zaghloul, exiling him to Malta,[12] triggering the Egyptian Revolution of 1919.

March 17 – Birth of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.

March 26 – Queen of the South F.C. is formed in Dumfries, Scotland.[13]

March 27 – The name Bratislava is officially adopted for the city of Pressburg.[14]

March 31 – A general strike begins in the Ruhr. April[edit] Main article: April 1919 April 5 – Pinsk massacre: 35 Jews are killed without trial, after being accused of Bolshevism.

April 6–7 – The Bavarian Soviet Republic is founded.

April 10 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead in Morelos.

April 12 – French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is arrested.

April 13 Amritsar Massacre: British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Sikhs at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, in the Punjab Province (British India).

Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for speaking out against conscription in the United States during World War I.

April 15 – The Save the Children Fund is created in the UK to raise money for the relief of German and Austrian children.

April 25 The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany.

ANZAC Day is observed for the first time in Australia.

Pancho Villa takes Parral, Chihuahua, in Mexico, and executes the mayor and his two sons by hanging.

April 30 – First wave of 1919 United States anarchist bombings: several bombs are intercepted.

other things

-with the spartacist seizure of berlin communist uprisings erupts throughout germany but mainly in the Rhineland and the south triggering the german civilwar