10 January 1919Minister of AirWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Appointed Minister of Air
Historical records for Great Britain in 1919, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Appointed Minister of Air
Appointed Minister of War
Supports British diplomatic work following the wartime council.
Reports on military demobilisation after the armistice.
Moves from wartime council work into peace conference diplomacy.
The Sinn Fein decalre the foundation of the Irish Republic
Elected 1st woman MP, 1919-1945, succeeds her husband as Member of Parliament for Plymouth
Birth of Bill Nicholson, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, the eighth of nine children
Attends the Paris Peace Conference as an advocate for Faisal and Arab claims.
Death of Joseph Arch
Attends the Paris Peace Conference, urges a military expedition against the Bolsheviks
Attends the Paris Peace Conference, urges a military expedition against the Bolsheviks
Helps draft the Covenant of the League of Nations.
Is appointed Special High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan.
Appointed Egypt Special High Commissioner
Lloyd George receives Allied proposals defining a provisional eastern limit for Polish administration north of Kholm while reserving claims farther east.
Measures starlight deflection during a solar eclipse, supporting general relativity.
Crommelin observes the solar eclipse at Sobral as part of the British test of general relativity
Davidson assists Eddington during the Principe eclipse expedition testing relativistic light bending
Dyson organises eclipse expeditions that test general relativity by measuring stellar positions near the Sun
Eddington leads eclipse observations that support Einsteins prediction of starlight deflection
According to the theory of general relativity, stars with light rays that passed near the Sun would appear to have been slightly shifted because their light had been curved by its gravitational field.
During the eclipse, he took pictures of the stars in the region around the Sun.
Eddington travelled to the island of Principe near Africa to watch the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919.
This effect is noticeable only during eclipses, since otherwise the Suns brightness obscures the affected stars.
Gives Royal Assent to the Ministry of Health Act.
Allied experts present alternative Lines A and B for Eastern Galicia, differing over whether Lwow and the Drohobych oil region should remain with Poland.
Becomes first Minister of Health after the ministry is created.
The Allied leadership authorizes Poland to occupy Eastern Galicia to the Zbrucz while postponing a final sovereignty settlement.
Signs the settlement containing the League Covenant.
Death of John William Strutt
The Housing Act subsidises local authority construction of homes for working families.
Created Viscount Allenby, 1st
Created Earl Beatty, 1st
The municipal savings institution begins operating under its permanent Birmingham Municipal Bank name.
The Commission on Polish Affairs recommends recognizing complete Polish sovereignty west of its proposed eastern line while leaving claims beyond it unresolved.
Birth of Peter Alexander Rupert Carington
Birth of Tommy Lawton
Birth of Doris Lessing, in Iran
Enters Cambridge as a freshman, Trinity College
Appointed First Sea Lord
The Supreme Council accepts a statute whose Galician demarcation joins the proposed Polish eastern line to the Czechoslovak frontier in the Carpathians.
Lord Inchcape is identified in Parliament as representing Treasury and Admiralty interests on the company board.
Parliament is told the government holds two million of Anglo-Persian's three million ordinary shares.
The Allied powers recognize Polish sovereignty west of a provisional eastern line while expressly reserving Poland's possible rights to territories farther east.
A new Home Rule Bill is passed for Ireland to remain part of the Empire as a Dominion
A new Home Rule Bill proposes Parliaments in Dublin & Belfast & an all Irish Council
A new Home Rule Bill is passed for Ireland to remain part of the Empire as a Dominion
A new Home Rule Bill proposes Parliaments in Dublin & Belfast & an all Irish Council
A new Home Rule Bill is passed for Ireland to remain part of the Empire as a Dominion
A new Home Rule Bill proposes Parliaments in Dublin & Belfast & an all Irish Council
A new Home Rule Bill is passed for Ireland to remain part of the Empire as a Dominion
A new Home Rule Bill is passed for Ireland to remain part of the Empire as a Dominion
A new Home Rule Bill is passed for Ireland to remain part of the Empire as a Dominion
A new Home Rule Bill proposes Parliaments in Dublin & Belfast & an all Irish Council
The first film pairing of Laurel & Hardy (albeit as separate performers) took place in The Lucky Dog, produced in 1919 by Sun-Lite Pictures and released in 1921
Appointed Admiral of the Fleet
100 million pounds is sent in military supplies to the Whites but they are defeated. 100 million pounds is sent in military supplies but the anti-Bolsheviks are defeated
Supports Emir Faisal's delegation during negotiations over the postwar Middle East.
œ100 million is sent in military supplies but the anti-Bolsheviks are defeated
Appointed President of the Boys Welfare Association
Commands a Royal Fusiliers battalion serving with the British Army of the Rhine after the First World War.
Made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Studies at Central Labour College with union sponsorship.
Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2nd term
Produces plans that influence Birmingham’s later civic centre development.
Appointed Commander in Chief in the East
Supports the Protestants by vetoing proposal by the Ulster Government to introduce PR
Founds the Daily Herald
Appointed Editor of the Daily Herald
Begins service as Special High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan.
Appointed Field Marshal
Is promoted to field marshal after his wartime victories.
Appointed Foreign Minister, 1st term
Appointed Governor General of Australia
Appointed Governor General of Nigeria
Awarded the Order of Merit
Publication of "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy"
Appointed President of the Local Government Board
Appointed Lord Chancellor
Appointed Lord Privy Seal
Appointed Major General
Attlee returns to local politics becoming Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney
Composes, "Ode to Death"
Milner attends the Paris Peace Conference and is one of the signatories of the Treaty of Versailles
Publication of "The Government of India". Publication of "Parliament and Revolution"
Created Baron Byng of Vimy, 1st
Created Earl of Bemersyde, 1st
Created Baron Stirkoke, 1st
Remains in the Middle East after the war as Britain's senior representative in Egypt.
Arthur Eddington and Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson organized two expeditions to observe a solar eclipse in 1919 to make the first empirical test of Einsteins theory: the measurement of the deflection of light by the suns gravitational field
Arthur Eddington and Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson organized two expeditions to observe a solar eclipse in 1919 to make the first empirical test of Einsteins theory.
Arthur Eddington leads a solar eclipse expedition which claims to detect gravitational deflection of light by the Sun.
Observes light bending during a solar eclipse by the gravitational pull of the Sun.
the measurement of the deflection of light by the suns gravitational field.
Appointed President of the Royal Academy
Appointed Colonial Secretary
Appointed President of the Society for Psychical Research
Appointed Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force
Britain ends support for the wartime dollar rate and allows sterling to float.
Publication of "The Government of India". Publication of "Parliament and Revolution"
The first film pairing of Laurel & Hardy (albeit as separate performers) took place in The Lucky Dog, produced in 1919 by Sun-Lite Pictures and released in 1921
Publication of "The Moon and Sixpence"
A signatory to the Treaty of Versailles
Milner attends the Paris Peace Conference and is one of the signatories of the Treaty of Versailles
Helps found United Artists
Appointed President of the Royal Naval College
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