What Happened in 1919

Bauhaus School at Weimar

The school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 as a merger of the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine... Read more

President Woodrow Wilson Wins Nobel Peace Prize

In accepting the honor of your award I am moved not only by a profound gratitude for the recognition of my [sincere and] earnest efforts in the... Read more

Mondrian Returns to France

When the war ended in 1919, Mondrian returned to France, where he would remain until 1938. Immersed in the crucible of artistic innovation that was... Read more

Harry Houdini stars in 'The Grim Game'

A gang of men frame Harvey Hanford (Houdini) for murder, and also decide to kidnap his fiancée. Hanford is quickly apprehended by the police and... Read more

Adolf Hitler joins German Workers' Party

Corporal Adolf Hitler was ordered in September 1919 to investigate a small group in Munich known as the German Workers' Party. The use of the... Read more

Sinking of HMS Iolaire

Iolaire cast off from Kyle at 7.30pm on Old Year’s Night. At half past midnight she was twelve miles from Stornoway where the armed drifter Budding... Read more

William Faulkner Attends the University of Mississippi

Faulkner was raised in and heavily influenced by the state of Mississippi, as well as by the history and culture of the South as a whole. When he... Read more

Walter Gropius and Bauhaus Period

Gropius's career advanced in the postwar period. Henry van de Velde, the master of the Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar was... Read more

Faisal-Weizmann Agreement signed

The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement was signed on January 3, 1919, by Emir Feisal (son of the King of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (later President of the... Read more

Theodore Roosevelt Dies

Roosevelt was considering a third Presidential campaign in 1920, and was believed to have been the front-runner for the Republican nomination until... Read more

Molasses Disaster in Boston's North End

The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the... Read more

The Eighteenth Amendment is ratified

Amendment XVIII (the Eighteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act (which defined "intoxicating liquors"... Read more

Paris Peace Conference

The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors in World War I to set the peace terms for Germany and other defeated nations, and... Read more

Jackie Robinson Born

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, the youngest of five children during a Spanish flu and smallpox epidemic. His older... Read more

Polish-Soviet War

In the Polish-Soviet War (1920–1921), the Soviets battled the Poles all the way back to Warsaw, but Polish forces eventually drove the Soviets out... Read more

United Artist is Founded

Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and David Griffith incorporated United Artist as a joint venture on February 5, 1919. Each held... Read more

Eva Gabor is Born

Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. She was best known for her role on Green Acres as Lisa... Read more

Albert Einstein divorces Mileva Maric

Einstein and Marić married in January 1903, and in May 1904 the couple’s first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Bern, Switzerland. Their... Read more

Reign of Amanullah Khan over the Emirate of Afghanistan

Amanullah Khan (June 1, 1892 – April 25, 1960) was the ruler of the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, first as Amir and after 1926 as Shah.... Read more

Congress Approves An Act To Establish The Lafayette National Park

Congress approved An Act to Establish the Lafayette National Park at Mt. Desert Island on the coast of Maine on February 26, 1919. The park,... Read more

Congress Establishes An Act To Establish The Grand Canyon National Park

Congress passed An Act to Establish the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona. Comprising over one million acres of northwestern... Read more

British Government Passes the Rowlatt Act in Colonial India, Indefinitely Extending the Use of 'Emergency Measures'

The Rowlatt Act was a law passed by the British in colonial India in March 1919, indefinitely extending "emergency measures" (of the Defence of... Read more

Joseph Stalin Marries Nadezhda Alliluyeva

Stalin's wife, who was one of Lenin's secretaries after the revolution, married him when she was 17 and he was 40. As a schoolgirl she looked up to... Read more

Barnum and Bailey Circus Merges With Ringling Brothers Circus

The Ringlings purchased the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1907 and ran the circuses separately until 1919. By that time, Charles Edward Ringling and... Read more

1919 Stanley Cup Finals Canceled

The 1919 Stanley Cup Final ice hockey play-off series to determine the 1919 Stanley Cup champion ended with no champion decided, being suspended... Read more