WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1919
Find out what all happened January to May 1919

The Staatliches Bauhaus school is founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. (1. April 1919)

The International Labour Organization is founded. (11. April 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 NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. (27. May 1919)

In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. (23. March 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)

Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic. (22. January 1919)

The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. (21. March 1919)

President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park. (26. February 1919)

Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail. (7. January 1919)

The Republic of Prekmurje is founded. (29. May 1919)

Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others. (15. January 1919)

Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. (15. May 1919)

The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. (31. January 1919)

A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight. (16. May 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 Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job. (15. May 1919)

World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. (18. January 1919)

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