2019

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Clockwise from top-left: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; the U.S. House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump due to the Trump–Ukraine scandal and other controversies; CRISPR gene editing first used to experimentally treat a patient with a genetic disorder; a fire destroys the spire and roof of Notre-Dame de Paris; the Venezuelan presidential crisis divided the nation and the world in support for Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó; protesters in Tahrir Square, Baghdad during the Iraqi protests, caused by strong Iraqi nationalism; Chileans protest after the increase in the rates of the public transport system of Santiago; the Event Horizon Telescope captures the first image of a black hole.

Template:Year nav Template:Year in various calendars Template:Year article header This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists

Up to that point, 2019 had been described as the "best year in human history" by some newspapers and media outlets in the United States, including The New York Times and WNYC.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Template:Horizontal TOC

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JanuaryEdit

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    • Qatar withdraws from OPEC.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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    • Works published by authors who died in 1948 enter the public domain in many countries. In the U.S., all works published in 1923 enter the public domain, the first entry of published works into the public domain since 1998.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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FebruaryEdit

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MarchEdit

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AprilEdit

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MayEdit

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JuneEdit

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JulyEdit

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AugustEdit

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SeptemberEdit

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    • In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission threatens to fine YouTube and Google up to $170 million for violation of collecting personal information from children under 13. Google tracked children's YouTube history to regulate targeted advertising and the FTC took notice and took action.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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OctoberEdit

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    • A New York Times investigation reveals that Russian planes had bombed at least 50 hospitals and clinics in opposition-held Idlib, Syria.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • October 16 – Venezuelan councilman and opposition politician Edmundo Rada is reported missing. He is found dead the following day on the side of the road out of Petare, Caracas,<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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NovemberEdit

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  • November 5 – 11,000 scientists from around the world publish a study in the journal BioScience, warning "clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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    • IPv4 address exhaustion: The RIPE NCC, which is the official regional Internet registry (RIR) for Europe, officially announces that it has run out of IPv4 addresses.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • November 26
    • 2019 Albania earthquake: 51 people are killed and around 2,000 others injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Albania.<ref name="AP1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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DecemberEdit

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  • December 18
    • The CHEOPS space telescope, whose mission is to study the formation of extrasolar planets and determine their precise radius, likely density and internal structure, is launched.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • December 27 – Corporate defaults on corporate bonds in China reach a new record.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • December 29
    • A report by the Multi-Sector Epidemic Response Committee (CMRE) indicates that 2,231 people have died so far in the 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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