page_title: 1919 in women's history
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1919 in women's history / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Portrait von Rosa Luxemburg. English: Portrait of Rosa Luxemburg. Français&#160;: Portrait de Rosa Luxemburg.
context_page_description: This is a listing of noteworthy historical events relating to the international women's movement which occurred in 1919.
context_section_description: January 1919: Czechoslovakia — Under the terms of the Electoral Rules for Settlements in Czechoslovakia, Act 75, adopted in January 1919, men and women in the Czech area of the country were granted equal voting rights in municipal elections.
  1 January 1919: Canada — Women were granted the right to be candidates in federal elections.
  15 January 1919: Germany — Revolutionary socialist anti-war activist Rosa Luxemburg was murdered by right wing nationalist soldiers.
  19 January 1919: Germany — Under the terms of the Weimar Constitution women were accorded equality in access to education, equal opportunity in appointments to the civil service, and equal pay.
  26 January 1919: Poland — Five women — Gabriela Balicka-Iwanowska, Jadwiga Dziubińska, Irena Kosmowska, Maria Moczydłowska, and Zofia Moraczewska — were elected to the first Parliament, after the establishment of the Second Polish Republic.
caption: German socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
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