In history, year 1919 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1919.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 03 january | Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionism leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. |
| 05 january | The German Workers' Party, the forerunner to the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler. |
| 15 january | A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets , killing 21 people and injuring 150 others. |
| 16 january | The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by thirty-six of the forty-eight states, establishing the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States. |
| 18 january | World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opened in Versailles, France, to set the peace terms for the Central Powers. |
| 31 january | Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow, Scotland, and was only called when the British government sent tanks to restore order. |
| 06 february | Over 65,000 workers in Seattle, Washington, US, began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of World War I wage controls. |
| 11 february | Friedrich Ebert was elected the first President of the German Weimar Republic by the Weimar National Assembly. |
| 14 february | The first serious armed conflict of the Polish–Soviet Wartook place near present-day Biaroza, Belarus. |
| 21 february | Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated. |
| 02 march | Communist, revolutionary socialist, and syndicalist delegates met in Moscow to establish the Communist International. |
| 08 march | During the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, British authoritiesarrested Saad Zaghloul and two others, exiling them to Malta. |
| 20 march | The Turkish War of Independence took place on May 19, 1919 between the Turkish nationalists and the Allies Greece, Armenia, France and Great Britain on three different fronts namely the Western front, the Eastern front and the Southern front. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk led the Turkish movement and defeated the forces of Allies. |
| 10 april | Mexican Revolution leaders Emiliano Zapata was shot to death near Ciudad Ayala, Morelos. |
| 13 april | British Indian Army troops massacred hundreds of unarmed men,women and children who were attending a peaceful gathering at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, India. |
| 16 april | Polish–Soviet War-The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania. |
| 08 may | First transatlantic flight expedition began on May 8, 1919 by United States navy. The Curtiss seaplane NC-4 made a crossing of the Atlantic flying from the United States to Newfoundland, then to the Azores and on to Portugal and finally the United Kingdom. More than one aircraft was used in this expedition which ended on May 31, 1919. |
| 15 may | The Winnipeg General Strike took place in which almost the entire working population from public and private sectors had walked off the job to join the strike on May 15, 1919 in Winnipeg, Canada. |
| 16 may | Curtiss NC-4, a US naval aircraft, became the first aircraft to complete transatlantic flight expedition on May 16, 1919. |
| 20 may | The Turkish War of Independence took place on May 19, 1919 between the Turkish nationalists and the Allies Greece, Armenia, France and Great Britain on three different fronts namely the Western front, the Eastern front and the Southern front. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk led the Turkish movement and defeated the forces of Allies. |
| 27 may | The Curtiss NC-4 flying boat arrived in Lisbon, Portugal,becoming the first fixed-wing aircraft to complete a transatlanticflight under its own power. |
| 30 may | British crowned Rabindranath Tagore with Knight Title in 1915, but after the incident at Jallianwala Bagh, Rabindranath Tagore refused to keep Knight Title further at 1919 to protest the terror. |
| 02 june | First Red Scare-Anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani set offeight bombs in eight cities across the United States. |
| 06 june | The republic of Prekmurje ended. Prekmurje was an unrecognized state. It was an area in Hungary which was traditionally known as Vendvidek. It was invaded during the war between communist and anti communist forces. |
| 15 june | After nearly 16 hours, the Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcockand Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed in County Galway, Ireland, to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight. |
| 21 june | Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German High Seas Fleetin Scapa Flow to prevent the ships from being seized and divided amongstthe Allied Powers. |
| 21 june | During the Winnipeg general strike in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, members of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police charged into thecrowd of strikers on horseback, beating them with clubs and firingweapons. |
| 23 june | Estonian War of Independence-Estonian troops engaged theforces of the Pro-German Government of Latvia near Cesis, Latvia,recapturing the area four days later. |
| 28 june | The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties. |
| 27 july | Red Summer-Race riots erupted in Chicago after a racialincident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and537 injuries over a five-day period. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 02 October | John W. Duarte / Composer / United Kingdom |
| 05 December | Alun Gwynne Jones / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 07 October | Henriette Avram / Scientist / United States of America |
| 08 August | John David Wilson / Producer / United Kingdom |
| 10 September | Lex van Delden / Composer / Netherlands |
| 10 November | Mikhail Kalashnikov / Engineer / Russia |
| 10 November | George Fenneman / Radio / United States of America |
| 11 April | Raymond Carr / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 12 November | France Štiglic / Writer / Slovenia |
| 18 April | Virginia O'Brien / Actress / United States of America |
| 19 May | Mitja Ribičič / Politician / Slovenia |
| 20 February | James O'Meara / Soldier / United Kingdom |
| 20 March | Gerhard Barkhorn / Pilot / Germany |
| 21 April | Roger Doucet / Tenor / Canada |
| 21 November | Steve Brodie / Actor / United States of America |
| 22 November | Máire Drumm / Politician / Ireland |
| 24 December | Pierre Soulages / Artist / France |
| 26 September | Matilde Camus / Poet / Spain |
| 26 February | Mason Adams / Actor / United States of America |
| 30 March | Robin M. Williams / Mathematician / New Zealand |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 19 December | Om Prakash / Actor / India |
| 25 April | Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna / Politician / India |
| 14 April | K. Saraswathi Amma / Author / India |
| 15 April | Arjan Singh / Air Marshal / India |
| 25 December | Naushad Ali / Composer / India |
| 01 May | Manna Dey / Singer / India |
| 15 April | Arjan Singh / Pilot / India |
| 04 December | I. K. Gujral / Politician / India |
| 14 April | Shamshad Begum / Singer / India |
| 12 August | Vikram Sarabhai / Academic / India |
| 04 December | Indra Kumar Gujral / Politician / India |
| 14 April | Shamasad Begum / Singer / India |
| 05 February | Khurshed Alam Khan / Politician / India |
| 31 August | Amruta Preetam / Novelist / India |
| 12 December | B. B. Nimbalkar / Cricketer / India |
| 04 December | Inder Kumar Gujral / Politician / India |
| 31 August | Amrita Preetam / Poet / India |
| 12 August | Vikram Sarabhai / Scientist / India |
| 08 November | Purushottam Laxman Deshpande / Actor / India |
| 31 July | Hemu Adhikari / Cricketer / India |