WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1919
Find out what all happened March to May 1919

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

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)

May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan. (4. May 1919)

Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day. (8. May 1919)

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

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 NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. (27. May 1919)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence. (19. May 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)

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