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| 1919 |
| | The phrase Abstract Expressionism is first used, describing the work of Wassily Kandinsky | |
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| 1919 |
| | Darius Milhaud provides the score for Jean Cocteau's pantomime ballet Le Boeuf sur le toit | |
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| 1919 |
| | John Singer Sargent completes Gassed, a powerful image of one of the particular horrors of the recent war | |
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| 1919 |
| | The prime minister of Poland, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, resigns his post so as to concentrate on his concert career | |
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| 1919 |
| | Boston Red Sox sell their star player, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees for $125,000 | |
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| 1919 |
| | Sherwood Anderson establishes a reputation with a collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio | |
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| 1919 January I |
| | The Spartacus League transforms itself into the Communist party of Germany | |
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| 1919 January 6 |
| | A vast crowd, assembling in Berlin, calls for a revolution and begins to seize public buildings | |
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| 1919 January I5 |
| | After ten days of street fighting in Berlin, Spartacus leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are captured and shot | |
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| 1919 January I8 |
| | The delegates to the peace conference in Paris, mainly concerned with the terms to be imposed on Germany, hold their first session | |
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