Editing 1919 (section)

===August===
{{main|August 1919}}
[[File:Tropas-rumanas-ocupan-budapest-1919--outlawsdiary02tormuoft.png|thumb|Romanian troops entering Budapest]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1978-042-11, Weimar, Vereidigung Reichspräsident Ebert.jpg|thumb|115px|[[Friedrich Ebert]] becomes president in Weimar, Germany]]
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Béla Kun]]'s [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]] collapses.
* [[August 3]] &ndash; The Romanian army enters [[Timișoara]].
* [[August 4]] &ndash; The Romanian army occupies [[Budapest]].
* [[August 8]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919]], signed in [[Rawalpindi]], ends the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War]], with the United Kingdom recognising the right of the [[Emirate of Afghanistan]] to manage its own foreign affairs and Afghanistan recognising the [[Durand Line]] as the border with [[British India]].
* [[August 11]] &ndash; In Germany, the [[Weimar Constitution]] is proclaimed to be in effect (ratified).
* [[August 14]]–[[September 12]] &ndash; [[Russian Civil War]]: [[Southern Front counteroffensive]] &ndash; The [[Red Army]] commanded by [[Vladimir Yegoryev]] attacks the [[White Movement|White]] [[Volunteer Army]] of General [[Anton Denikin]] but is defeated.
* [[August 16]]–[[August 26|26]] &ndash; [[First Silesian Uprising]]: Poles in [[Upper Silesia]] rise against the Germans.
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Russian Civil War]]: [[North Russia intervention]] &ndash; The [[Bolshevik]] fleet at [[Kronstadt]], protecting [[Petrograd]] on the [[Baltic Sea]], is substantially damaged by British Royal Navy [[Coastal Motor Boat]]s ([[torpedo boat]]s) and [[military aircraft]] in a combined operation. 
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Ebert]] becomes the first [[President of Germany (1919–1945)|President of Germany]] (''Reichspräsident'') under the Weimar Constitution.
* [[August 27]] &ndash; South African Prime Minister [[Louis Botha]] dies in office of '[[Spanish flu]]'.
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Russian Civil War]]: The [[Red Army]] captures [[Pskov]] from White forces.
* [[August 31]]
** [[Russian Civil War]], Southern Front: the city of  [[Kyiv]] is captured by the [[White Army]].
** The [[Communist Party of America]] is established.