WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1919
Find out what all happened March to December 1919

In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. (23. March 1919)

150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. (20. June 1919)

The American Legion is incorporated. (16. September 1919)

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

The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. (13. April 1919)

March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule. (1. March 1919)

Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.) (1. December 1919)

The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period. (27. July 1919)

The first Communist International meets in Moscow. (2. March 1919)

Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US. (28. September 1919)

The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities. (7. November 1919)

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace. (4. 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)

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)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike. (6. April 1919)

The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I. (28. June 1919)

Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown. (11. June 1919)

Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom. (23. December 1919)

Sette giugno: Four people were killed in a riot in Malta. (7. June 1919)

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

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