1919

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1919.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Event: International Peace Mission Movement is founded by Father Divine.
• Event: The Bauhaus school of art and design opens in Weimar, Germany.
• Event: The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort published
• Event: General John T. Thompson develops the Thompson submachine gun
• Event: 1919 Revolutions:
  • Event: Egyptian Revolution of 1919
  • Event: German Revolution of 1918–1919 that began in November 1918
  • Event: Bavarian Soviet Republic
  • Event: Hungarian Soviet Republic
  • Event: Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919)
  • Event: Tail end of the Finnish Civil War
  • Event: Limerick Soviet
• Event: The First Red Scare and the Palmer Raids - Fearing a communist revolt that never came to be, the US Government arrests 10,000 Americans (communists, anarchists, labor activists, immigrants in general, and those merely suspected of being one of the above) across 23 cities between November 1919 and January 1920. Over 2,000 of the arrests were subsequently thrown out by the courts when the warrants were determined to have been illegally obtained by the justice department.

January

February

March

April

• April 15:
  • Event: Citizens of Limerick (Ireland) went on general strike, declaring the city and its surroundings a new state, Limerick Soviet.
• April 27:
  • Event: General strike in Limerick ended. Limerick Soviet ceased to exist.

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

• November 7:
  • The Palmer Raids begin. Between now and January 1920, over 10,000 Americans will be arrested, and over 2,000 of those arrests overturned as being illegal.

December