WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1919
Find out what all happened January to April 1919

Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany. (11. February 1919)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland. (18. January 1919)

Bentley Motors Limited is founded. (18. January 1919)

Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute. (19. April 1919)

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising. (15. January 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)

Romania reincorporates Transylvania. (11. January 1919)

The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded. (5. January 1919)