United Artists founded
1919 · Event
Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith set up their own distribution company — 'the lunatics have taken over the asylum', a rival quips.
On these timelines: Master, Arts and Thoughts, USA
Around 1919
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)