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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1919, Jan. 5 | |
| The Bolsheviks took Vilna, which they lost soon afterward to the Poles (April 4). | 1 |
| April 6 | |
| Antanas Smetona was elected president of Lithuania in Kaunas. | 2 |
| Dec. 8 | |
| The Allied powers defined the Polish-Lithuanian boundary by the Curzon Line, which left Vilna to Lithuania. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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