The following events occurred in January 1919:
Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, dies at his home in Long Island, New York.
The "Big Four" at the Paris Peace Conference: (from left to right) David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson of the United States.
German socialist leader Rosa Luxemburg is assassinated during the Spartacist uprising.
Soldiers on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin during the Spartacist uprising.
The following events occurred in February 1919:
Wilfrid Laurier, former Prime Minister of Canada, dies in Ottawa.
Seattle Union Record newspaper headlines a citywide strike, inciting the First Red Scare.
U.S. Navy troopship USS Narragansett after it ran aground in the English Channel.
Polish troops man trenches during the Battle of Rawicz in Greater Poland.