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Ongoing events

• Women's suffrage in the United States (1770's-1966) Location: United States
• Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) Location: United States
• Flu pandemic (January 1918 to December 1920); Location: Worldwide
• 1918 flu pandemic in Charlottesville-Albemarle (September 1918 to April 1919); Location: Charlottesville-Albemarle
• City Beautiful Movement (1890s and 1900s); Location: United States
• Beginning of the City Beautiful Movement in Charlottesville (1919-1924); Location: Charlottesville

Incumbents

Federal Government

• President: Woodrow Wilson (D)

State Government

Albemarle, Greene, and the City of Charlottesville were represented by Senator Nathaniel B. Early (D) and Delegates G. M. McNutt and D. H. Pitts.

City of Charlottesville Government

• Mayor: E. G. Haden

see also: Charlottesville City Council, 1918-1919

Events

National Events

• January 11 – Virginia was the second state to ratify the 18th Amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of "intoxicating liquors" in the United States.
• January 16 – The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes,” becomes the law of the land-national prohibition began.
• May 21 – During the first session of the 66th Congress (1919–1921), members of the U. S. House passed (for the second time) the women’s suffrage amendment.
• June 4 – The U.S. Congress passes the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by the states a year later. The amendment guarantees women the right to vote. It took over 60 years for the remaining 12 states to ratify the 19th Amendment.
• August 26 – The Nineteenth Amendment, called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, is ratified by Tennessee on August 18. It becomes law on this date. Virginia delayed its ratification until 1952.
• October 28 – Congress passed the Volstead Act, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. The act established the legal definition of intoxicating liquors as well as penalties for producing them.

State Events

• August 13 - September 9 – 2nd Session of the 110th Virginia General Assembly which convened in Richmond for two sessions (1918 to 1920).
• November 1 – The Virginia Prohibition Commission, created in 1916 by an act of the General Assembly to enforce the Virginia Prohibition Act, went into effect. This law did not restrict individuals’ ability to manufacture alcoholic beverages, or "ardent spirits", for their own use, but did restrict the "sale and transport of said goods".
• November 23 – A unit of the Virginia National Guard from Charlottesville is dispatched to Big Stone Gap to assist with "disturbance in Coal Fields". Fifty-two men from the First Company, First Provisional Regiment, were sent to the area and more followed the next day.

Births

• Henry Mitchell

Deaths

• November 12 - Thomas S. Martin, ill since the latter part of May, died at 1:15 o’clock this afternoon at the University Hospital. Martin held office from March 4, 1895 until his death.

Images dated 1919