WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1919
Find out what all happened January to October 1919

Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall. (19. July 1919)

At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I 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. (3. January 1919)

Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. (10. April 1919)

The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted. (11. August 1919)

Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier. (16. April 1919)

Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. (25. February 1919)

Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros. (18. September 1919)

Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party (later the Nazi Party). (12. September 1919)

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin. (29. May 1919)

The Netherlands gives women the right to vote. (18. September 1919)

Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I. (13. April 1919)

The five-day Seattle General Strike begins. (6. February 1919)

German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. (21. February 1919)

The League of Nations is founded. (25. January 1919)

Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities. (2. June 1919)

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded. (13. April 1919)

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. (2. October 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. (21. January 1919)

The Polish–Soviet War begins. (14. February 1919)

German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14. (31. July 1919)