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Timeline

(1952)

January 1919

January

04
- The Spartacist uprisingOn 4 January 1919 Ebert sacked Berlin's police chief. The Freikorps crushed the ensuing rising in a week; Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed on 15 January.
18
- The Paris Peace Conference opensOn 18 January 1919, at the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay, President Poincaré opened the peace conference. The defeated and Russia were absent.
31
- The Battle of George SquareOn 31 January 1919 Glasgow police broke up a rally of strikers seeking a 40-hour week. The sheriff read the Riot Act and called in troops, who came overnight.