Important Historical Events of the year 2019, Year 2019 in History
List of 2019 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 2019
What happened in the year 2019?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 3, 2019 | Chang'e 4 makes the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover. |
| January 6, 2019 | Forty people are killed in a gold mine collapse in Badakhshan province, in northern Afghanistan. |
| January 6, 2019 | Muhammad V of Kelantan resigns as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, becoming the first monarch to do so. |
| January 10, 2019 | A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered. |
| January 14, 2019 | A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people. |
| January 15, 2019 | Somali militants attack the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 21 people and injuring 19. |
| January 15, 2019 | Theresa May's UK government suffers the biggest government defeat in modern times, when 432 MPs voting against the proposed European Union withdrawal agreement, giving her opponents a majority of 230. |
| January 18, 2019 | An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people. |
| January 25, 2019 | A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing at least seven people and leaving 200 missing. |
| January 31, 2019 | Abdullah of Pahang is sworn in as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. |
| February 5, 2019 | Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi. |
| February 12, 2019 | The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa agreement, settling a long-standing naming dispute with Greece. |
| February 14, 2019 | Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured. |
| February 23, 2019 | Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board. |
| February 26, 2019 | Indian Air Force fighter-jets targeted Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camps in Balakot. |
| February 27, 2019 | Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and capture him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| March 10, 2019 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes, leading to all 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide. |
| March 12, 2019 | In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes. |
| March 14, 2019 | Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths. |
| March 15, 2019 | Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings. |
| March 15, 2019 | Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. |
| March 15, 2019 | Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change. |
| March 21, 2019 | The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others. |
| March 22, 2019 | The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General. |
| March 22, 2019 | Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people. |
| March 23, 2019 | The Kazakh capital of Astana was renamed to Nur-Sultan. |
| March 23, 2019 | The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces capture the town of Baghuz in Eastern Syria, declaring military victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after four years of fighting, although the group maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells across Syria and Iraq. |
| March 24, 2019 | Jakarta MRT, a rapid transit system in Jakarta, began operation. |
| March 30, 2019 | Pope Francis visits Morocco. |
| April 10, 2019 | Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, which was located in the centre of the M87 galaxy. |
| April 15, 2019 | The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire. |
| April 18, 2019 | A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public. |
| April 21, 2019 | Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday; more than 250 people are killed. |
| April 23, 2019 | The April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse in Myanmar kills four miners and two rescuers. |
| April 26, 2019 | Marvel Studios' blockbuster film, Avengers: Endgame, is released, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the previous box office record of Avatar. |
| May 1, 2019 | Naxalite attack in Gadchiroli district of India: Sixteen army soldiers, including a driver, killed in an IED blast. Naxals targeted an anti-Naxal operations team. |
| May 1, 2019 | Naruhito ascends to the throne of Japan succeeding his father Akihito, beginning the Reiwa period. |
| May 4, 2019 | The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion. |
| May 8, 2019 | British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.[16] |
| May 18, 2019 | United States presidential election: Joe Biden announces his presidential campaign.[14] |
| May 20, 2019 | The International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the international prototype of the kilogram obsolete. |
| May 24, 2019 | Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India). |
| May 24, 2019 | Under pressure over her handling of Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party, effective as of June 7. |
| May 31, 2019 | A shooting occurs inside a municipal building at Virginia Beach, Virginia, leaving 13 people dead, including the shooter, and four others injured. |
| June 3, 2019 | Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest. |
| June 10, 2019 | An Agusta A109E Power crashes onto the AXA Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, sparking a fire on the top of the building. The pilot of the helicopter is killed. |
| June 16, 2019 | Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history. |
| June 20, 2019 | Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries. |
| June 30, 2019 | Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). |
| July 7, 2019 | The United States women's national soccer team defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final in Lyon, France. |
| July 10, 2019 | The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum. |
| July 16, 2019 | A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped. |
| July 18, 2019 | A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens of others.[16] |
| July 21, 2019 | Yuen Long attack or "721 incident" in Hong Kong. Triad members indiscriminately beat civilians returning from protests while police failed to take action. |
| July 22, 2019 | Chandrayaan 2, the second lunar exploration mission developed by Indian Space Research Organisation after Chandrayaan 1 is launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in a GSLV Mark III M1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, and also included the Vikram lander, and the Pragyan lunar rover. |
| July 24, 2019 | Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May. |
| July 25, 2019 | National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave. |
| July 29, 2019 | The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead. |
| August 3, 2019 | Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia. |
| August 3, 2019 | Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas.[6] |
| August 4, 2019 | Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 12 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.[5] |
| August 5, 2019 | The revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (state) occurred and the state was bifurcated into two union territories (Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh). |
| August 10, 2019 | Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines. |
| August 17, 2019 | A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured. |
| August 18, 2019 | One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km2). |
| August 30, 2019 | A huge accident during the 2019 F2 Spa Feature Race caused young driver Anthoine Hubert to die after sustaining major injuries. |
| August 31, 2019 | A sightseeing helicopter crashes in the mountains of Skoddevarre [no], Alta, Norway, killing all 6 occupants. |
| September 2, 2019 | Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five. |
| September 7, 2019 | Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia. |
| September 14, 2019 | Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.[9] |
| September 16, 2019 | Five months before the COVID-19 stock market crash, an overnight spike in lending rates in the United States prompts the Federal Reserve to conduct operations in the repo market. |
| September 19, 2019 | A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan. |
| September 20, 2019 | Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change.[36][37] Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.[38][39] |
| September 21, 2019 | A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana. |
| September 27, 2019 | Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.[14] |
| September 29, 2019 | Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election. |
| October 1, 2019 | Kuopio school stabbing: one dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at Savo Vocational College in Kuopio, Finland. |
| October 2, 2019 | A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven. |
| October 8, 2019 | About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland. |
| October 9, 2019 | Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria. |
| October 12, 2019 | Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people. |
| October 12, 2019 | Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna. |
| October 12, 2019 | The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20. |
| October 13, 2019 | Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon. |
| October 17, 2019 | Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest. |
| October 17, 2019 | The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon. |
| October 18, 2019 | NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller. |
| October 18, 2019 | Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.[9] |
| October 21, 2019 | Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| October 21, 2019 | In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government.[9] |
| October 22, 2019 | Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored. |
| October 27, 2019 | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.[3] |
| November 10, 2019 | President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military. |
| November 14, 2019 | A mass shooting occurs at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, resulting in three deaths, including that of the perpetrator, and three injuries. |
| November 17, 2019 | The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. |
| November 21, 2019 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. |
| November 21, 2019 | Tesla launches the SUV Cybertruck. A gaffe occurs during the launch event when its "unbreakable" windows shatter during demonstration. |
| November 23, 2019 | The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country. |
| November 26, 2019 | A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1000 injured. This was the world's deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years. |
| December 1, 2019 | Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals. |
| December 8, 2019 | First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China. |
| December 9, 2019 | A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.[11] |
| December 10, 2019 | The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator. |
| December 11, 2019 | The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for Bougainville's independence. |
| December 18, 2019 | The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time. |
| December 20, 2019 | The United States Space Force becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947. |
| December 25, 2019 | Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines. |
| December 27, 2019 | Bek Air Flight 2100 crashes during takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing 13. |
| December 31, 2019 | The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan.[15] This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. |