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| 1919 |
| | | Afghanistan finally achieves international recognition as an independent nation | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Lillian Gish stars as a Cockney girl in D.W. Griffith's inter-racial film romance Broken Blossoms, set in London's slums | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Nancy Astor, as MP for Plymouth, becomes the first woman to take her seat in Britain's House of Commons | |
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| 1919 |
| | | On the death of Louis Botha, Jan Smuts succeeds him as prime minister of South Africa | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The port of Fiume, belonging to Yugoslavia, is seized by Gabriele d'Annunzio and 300 Italian volunteers | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Steelworkers go on strike in the US, attempting a major confrontation with industrial management | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Walter Gropius becomes director of the newly formed Bauhaus in Weimar | |
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| 1919 |
| | | President Woodrow Wilson suffers a severe stroke that renders him largely incapable during the final seventeen months of his presidency | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp adds a moustache and beard to a postcard of the Mona Lisa, and gives it the subtly offensive French title LHOOQ | |
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| 1919 |
| | | In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany | |
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