Editing 1919 (section)

===February===
{{main|February 1919}}
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Estonian War of Independence]]: [[Estonia]]n forces liberate [[Valga, Estonia|Valga]] and [[Võru]], expelling the [[Red Army]] from the entire territory of [[Estonia]].
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Russian Civil War]]: Soviet troops occupy [[Ukrainian People's Republic|Ukraine]].
* [[February 4]]–[[February 5|5]] &ndash; Pressburg ([[Bratislava]]) becomes the capital of [[Slovakia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Tibenský, Ján|title=Slovensko: Dejiny|publisher=Obzor|year=1971|location=Bratislava|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] 
**[[United Artists]] (UA) is incorporated in the United States by [[D. W. Griffith]], [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[Mary Pickford]] and [[Douglas Fairbanks]] as a motion picture producer.
**[[Russian Civil War]]: Soviet troops occupy the city of [[Kyiv]] after the [[Battle of Kiev (January 1919)|Battle of Kiev (January)]].
* [[February 10]] &ndash; The [[Inter-Allied Women's Conference]] convenes to compile a list of women's issues to present to the delegates of the [[Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)|Paris Peace Conference]].<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Guerra|first=Elda|title=L'Associazionismo internazionale delle donne tra diritti, democrazia, politiche di pace 1888–1939|type=PhD|url=http://dspace.unitus.it/bitstream/2067/2468/1/eguerra_tesid.pdf|publisher=[[Università degli Studi della Tuscia]]|access-date=2019-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428051009/http://dspace.unitus.it/bitstream/2067/2468/1/eguerra_tesid.pdf|archive-date=2017-04-28|location=Viterbo, Italy|language=it|date=2012-07-13|trans-title=International Women's Rights Associations, Democracy, Peace Policies 1888–1939|page=76}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Votes for Women No Peace Problem|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27701948/the_philadelphia_inquirer/|access-date=2019-01-27|newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|date=1919-01-27|location=Philadelphia, PA|page=4|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* [[February 11]]
** [[Friedrich Ebert]] is elected the first [[President of Germany (1919–1945)|President of Germany]] (''Reichspräsident''), by the [[Weimar National Assembly]].
** The [[Seattle General Strike]] ends, when [[Federal government of the United States|Federal]] troops are summoned by the [[State of Washington]]'s [[State attorney general|Attorney General]].
* [[February 12]] &ndash; Ethnic Germans and Hungarian inhabitants of [[Bratislava|Pressburg]] start a protest against its incorporation into [[Czechoslovakia]], but the [[Czechoslovak Legion]]s open fire on the unarmed demonstrators.<ref>{{citation|first=Marcel|last=Jankovics|title=Húsz esztendő Pozsonyban|pages=65–67|language=hu}}</ref>
* [[February 13]] &ndash; Portugal's [[Monarchy of the North]] ends as a result of a revolt in Porto by civilians and National Republican Guard members.<ref name="Wheeler1998"/>
* [[February 14]] &ndash; The [[Polish–Soviet War]] begins, with the [[Battle of Bereza Kartuska (1919)|Battle of Bereza Kartuska]].
* [[February 16]]–[[February 21|21]] &ndash; [[Estonian War of Independence]]: Uniformed peasants in [[Saaremaa]] rebel against the government of [[Estonia]]; the rebellion is crushed by government forces, leaving more than 200 dead.
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Oregon]] places a one cent per US gallon (0.26¢/liter) tax on [[gasoline]], becoming the first U.S. state to levy a [[gasoline tax]].
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Grand Canyon National Park]]: An act of the [[United States Congress]] establishes most of the [[Grand Canyon]] as a [[United States National Park]].
* [[February 28]] 
** [[Amānullāh Khān]] becomes [[Reforms of Amanullah Khan and civil war|King of Afghanistan]].
** An independence mission to the U.S., funded by the Philippine legislature, sets out from Manila to present its case to [[United States Secretary of War]] [[Newton D. Baker]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Zaide|first=Sonia M.|title=The Philippines: A Unique Nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YMsNgAACAAJ|publisher=All-Nations Publishing Co.|year=1994|isbn=978-971-642-071-5}}</ref>