2019 (MMXIX) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium, the 19th year of the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.
2019 was designated as International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by the United Nations General Assembly gave that it coincides with the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the Periodic System by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.
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Events
January:
- January 1
- All works published in 1923 except sound recordings (see 2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States, the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
- Jair Bolsonaro begins his four-year term as President of Brazil.
- Unmanned space probe New Horizons makes a close approach of the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 2014 MU69 at 05:33 UTC.
- Qatar withdraws from OPEC.
- Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Austria.
Predicted and/or scheduled events
- February 16 – Nigeria will hold a general election to vote for their parliament members and president.
- March 29 – The United Kingdom's membership in the European Unionwill cease in accordance with Article 50. Gibraltar will also leave the European Union with the UK.
- April 17 – Indonesia will hold its twelfth general election. For the first time, the eligible voters will vote for representatives at all levels, governors, and president simultaneously.
- April 20 – Afghanistan will hold an election to vote for their next president.
- April 30 – Emperor Akihito of Japan will abdicate from his position; the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in about two centuries.
- May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 is scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- May 23–26 – European Parliament election.
- May 30 – July 14 – The 2019 Cricket World Cup is scheduled to be held in England and Wales, with matches at 10 venues in nine cities. The opening match and final will be in London, with the final at Lord's.
- June 7 – July 7 – The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled to be held in France, with matches in nine cities. The opening match will be in Paris and the final in the Lyon suburb of Décines-Charpieu.
- July 2 – A total solar eclipse will be visible from South America.
- July 26 – August 11 – The 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held in Lima, Peru.
- September 20 – November 2 – The 2019 Rugby World Cup (rugby union) is scheduled to be held in Japan, with matches in 12 cities. The opening match will be in the Tokyo district of Chōfu, and the final in Yokohama.
- October 6 – 2019 Portuguese legislative election, for all 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic.
- October 26 – Climbing Uluru will be permanently banned.
- November 5 – The 2019 United States elections will choose 3 state governors and various state and local officials.
- November 11 – Transit of Mercury occurs.
- December 12–21 – The 2019 Winter Deaflympics is scheduled to be held in Italy.
- December 26 – An annular solar eclipse will be visible from South Asia.
Date unknown
- The European Spallation Source is expected to go into operation in Lund, Sweden.
- The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is expected to complete the process of eliminating tariffs on sensitive products, thus establishing a single market throughout most of South America.[citation needed
- The CHEOPS space telescope, whose mission is to study the formation of extra-solar planets, is expected to launch at the beginning of the year.
- The 2019 Indian general election will be held in April or May 2019, along with elections in six states/provinces. The dates will be announced by the Election Commission of India.
- SpaceX expects to perform suborbital hop tests of their Starship prototype.
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