Bratislava Shooting (1919)

The 1919 Bratislava shooting, also known as the Bloody Wednesday (Slovak: Krvavá streda), was an incident that occurred on February 12, 1919, in Bratislava (then known as Prešporok or Pressburg). Czechoslovak soldiers fired into an unarmed crowd of local German and Hungarian residents who were protesting the city's incorporation into the newly formed Czechoslovakia. The shooting resulted in at least nine deaths and numerous injuries, significantly escalating ethnic tensions in the city.

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