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===April=== {{main|April 1919}} * [[April 5]] – [[Pinsk massacre]]: 35 Jews are killed by the [[Polish Army]] without trial after being accused of Bolshevism. * [[April 6]]β[[April 7|7]] – The [[Bavarian Soviet Republic]] is founded. * [[April 10]] – [[Mexican Revolution]] leader [[Emiliano Zapata]] is ambushed and shot dead in [[Morelos]]. * [[April 12]] – French [[serial killer]] [[Henri DΓ©sirΓ© Landru]] is arrested. * [[April 13]] ** [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre|Amritsar Massacre]]: Under the command of [[Reginald Dyer]], detachments of the [[9th Gorkha Rifles]] and the [[59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force)|59th Scinde Rifles]] massacre 379 Sikh civilians at [[Jallianwala Bagh]] in [[Amritsar]], in the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]]. ** [[Eugene V. Debs]] enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for speaking out against [[conscription in the United States]] during World War I. * [[April 15]] – The [[Save the Children Fund]] is created in the UK to raise money for the relief of German and Austrian children. * [[April 20]] – The [[French Army]] blows up the bridge over the [[Dniester]] at [[Bender, Moldova]], to protect the city from the [[Bolsheviks]].<ref name=Kaba>{{cite book|last=Kaba|first=John|title=Politico-economic Review of Basarabia|year=1919|publisher=American Relief Administration|location=United States|page=14|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7313/view/1/14/}}</ref> * [[April 22]]β[[June 20]] – [[Russian Civil War]]: [[Counteroffensive of Eastern Front]] – The Reds go on the offensive on the Siberia Front: General [[Hayk Bzhishkyan|Gaya Gai]] defeats the White forces near Orenburg after a 3-day battle. Over the next weeks, the Red Army pushes the Whites behind the [[Ural Mountains]]. * [[April 23]] – The [[Estonian Constituent Assembly]] convenes its first session. * [[April 25]] ** The ''[[Bauhaus]]'' architectural and design movement is founded in [[Weimar]], Germany.<ref>{{cite book|author=Elaine S. Hochman|title=Bauhaus: Crucible of Modernism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VaRPAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Fromm International|isbn=978-0-88064-175-3|page=80}}</ref> ** [[Anzac Day]] is observed for the first time in Australia.<ref>{{cite book|author=Manning Clark|title=A History of Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChdzAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Melbourne University Press|isbn=978-0-522-84353-8|page=119}}</ref> ** [[Pancho Villa]] takes [[Parral, Chihuahua]], in Mexico, and executes the mayor and his two sons. * [[April 30]] – First wave of [[1919 United States anarchist bombings]]: several bombs sent by [[Galleanisti|followers]] of the [[Italian anarchist]] [[Luigi Galleani]] are intercepted.
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