Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1919.

The Book of The Damned by Charles Fort is printed in December by Horace Liveright.

January

• January 1: In Scotland, the HMS Iolaire sinks on the rocks; 206 die.
• January 1: Spartacist uprising: Socialist demonstrations in Berlin, Germany turn into an attempted communist revolution.
• January 6: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, dies in his sleep at the age of 60.
• January 10-12: The Freikorps attacks Spartacist supporters around Berlin.
• January 15: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are murdered following the Spartacist uprising.
• January 15: The Boston Molasses Disaster: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150.
• January 16: The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States.
• January 21: The First Dáil Éireann meets in the Mansion House in Dublin.
• January 21: An ambush of the police at Soloheadbeg marks the beginning of the Irish War of Independence.
• January 25: The League of Nations is founded in Paris.
• January 31: Battle of George Square: British police battle strikers in Glasgow, Scotland.
• January 31: Estonian Freedom War, The Red Army is expelled from the entire territory of Estonia.

February

• February 3: Soviet troops occupy the Ukraine.
• February 6: The Seattle General Strike begins. Over 65,000 workers strike.
• February 11: The Seattle General Strike ends when Federal troops are summmoned by the state of Washington's Attorney General.
• February 14: The Polish-Soviet War begins.
• February 21: An intensley black line is seen to exrend out from the lunar crater Lexall. (Books521)

March

• March 15: The American Legion forms in Paris.
• March 23: In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
• March 31: A general strike begins in the Ruhr.

April

• April 7: The body of Mr J. Temple Thurston of Hawley Manor, Durston, is found. His body was scorched, but upon his clothes there was no trace of a fire. (Books912)
• April 9: Two dissimilar Stones, cemented together, are seen to fall from the sky, at Cumberland Falls, KY. (Books534)
• April 12: Murderer Henri Désiré Landru is arrested.
• April 13: Amritsar Massacre, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Sikhs in the Punjab in India.
• April 25: The Bauhaus architectural movement is founded in Weimar, Germany.
• April 25: Pancho Villa takes Parral in Mexico, and hangs the mayor and his two sons.
• April 30: Several bombs are intercepted in the first wave of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.

May

• May 1: Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio; 2 people are killed, 40 injured, and 116 arrested.
• May 5: The League of Red Cross Societies is founded in Paris.
• May 19: Untraceable messages, meaningless and gibberish, were picked up by wireless. Newspapers interpreted the signal as the letters K U J and V K A J. (Books521)
• May 25: Volcano Kelut erupts in Java, killing 16,000.
• May 29: Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested/confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe, and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
• May 29: Capt. Mansell R. James disappears whilst flying between Lee, Mass. and Mitchel Field, Long Island. (Books522)

June

• June 2: Several mail bombs are sent to prominent figures as part of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.
• June 4: Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
• June 14: John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight (they land at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland the next day).
• June 15: Pancho Villa attacks Ciudad Juárez. When the bullets begin to fly to the U.S. side of the border, 2 units of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment cross the border and repulse Villa's forces.
• June 21 - The American Winged Foot Express catches fire over downtown Chicago; 2 passengers, 1 crewmember and 10 people on the ground are killed; only 2 people parachute to the ground safely.
• June 28 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.

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  July

• July 2: General Syrian Congress in Damascus. Arab nationalist announce independence.
• July 6: The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
• July 31 – Policemen in London and Liverpool strike for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers; over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.

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  August

• August 18: The Bolshevik fleet at Kronstadt, near Petrograd, is destroyed by German aircraft and torpedo boats in a combined operation.
• August 19: Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• August 30: Swanton Novers rectory, near melton Constable, Norfolk, England - oil "spurting" from walls and ceilings. (Books577)
• August 31: The American Communist Party is established.

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  September

• September 10: The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, ending World War I with Austria.

• September 10: September 15: The Florida Keys Hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas.

• September 12: Police spy, Adolf Hitler, ordered to monitor the German Workers Party.

• September 22: The Steel strike of 1919 begins across the United States.

• September 25: Detonations are heard and a shock felt at Reading, England. (Books522)

• September 27: The last British troops leave Archangel, Russia and leave the fighting to the Russians.

• September 28: Omaha Riot: A lynch mob besieges the police station and courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska, and lynches alleged black rapist Will Brown.

• October

• October 1: The Elaine Race Riot breaks out in Arkansas.
• October 2: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
• October 28: Prohibition begins: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.