WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO APRIL 1919
Find out what all happened March to April 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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The International Labour Organization is founded. (11. April 1919)

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

Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania. (16. April 1919)

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