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| 1914-1918 |
| | | Approximately 7 million civilians are calculated to have died as a direct result of the four years of world war | |
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| 1919 January 4 |
| | | Finland wins freedom from Russia and becomes an independent republic | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Composer and pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes prime minister of the newly independent Poland | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The Sinn Fein members elected to Westminster establish their own parliament in Dublin, the Dáil Eireann (Assembly of Ireland), soon declared illegal by Britain | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The armed supporters of Sinn Fein become the IRA, or Irish Republican Army, in Ireland's war of independence | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Michael Collins springs de Valera from Lincoln gaol, with the help of a duplicate key | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Returning from active service with the Royal Navy, Erskine Childers devotes his energies to Sinn Fein and Irish independence | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Mussolini founds the Fasci di Combattimento, dedicated to opposing the Socialist party | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Edward Elgar completes his last great work, the Cello Concerto in E minor | |
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