2019

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1980s  1990s  2000s  – 2010s –  2020s  2030s  2040s
Years:	2016 2017 2018 – 2019 – 2020 2021 2022

2019 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – State leaders – Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Association football (soccer) – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Boxing – Cricket – Golf – Horse racing – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling (men, women) – Rugby league – Tennis

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria - Azerbaijan – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia –Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States - Vietnam

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2019 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2019 MMXIX
Ab urbe condita	2772
Armenian calendar	1468 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	6769
Bahá'í calendar	175–176
Bengali calendar	1426
Berber calendar	2969
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2563
Burmese calendar	1381
Byzantine calendar	7527–7528
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4715 or 4655     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4716 or 4656
Coptic calendar	1735–1736
Discordian calendar	3185
Ethiopian calendar	2011–2012
Hebrew calendar	5779–5780
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2075–2076
- Shaka Samvat	1941–1942
- Kali Yuga	5120–5121
Holocene calendar	12019
Igbo calendar	1019–1020
Iranian calendar	1397–1398
Islamic calendar	1440–1441
Japanese calendar	Heisei 31 (平成３１年)
Juche calendar	108
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4352
Minguo calendar	ROC 108 民國108年
Thai solar calendar	2562
Unix time	1546300800–1577836799

2019 (MMXIX) will be a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) 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.

Predicted and scheduled events

January

• January 1 – Assuming that the copyright laws are not changed further, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the U.S., the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
• January 1 – The space probe New Horizons will make a close approach of the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 2014 MU69 on this date.

December

• December – The final stage of the new cross London railway, Crossrail, opens enabling trains to run from Shenfield & Abbey Wood in the east to Reading & Heathrow Airport in the West.
• December 26 – An annular solar eclipse will be visible from South Asia.^[1]

Date unknown

• The European Spallation Source is expected to go in to operation in Lund, Sweden ^[2]
• The Bangladesh Navy plans to commission its submarine force in 2019.^[3]
• Completion of the Xayaburi Dam in Laos.^[4]
• British troops will leave Germany, having been stationed there since World War II.^[5]
• A complete ban on lead ammunition for hunting will come into force across California.^[6]
• 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.
• Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group Launched Chengdu J-20 and Enter Military Service.
• ESA's ExoMars Rover Touches down on Mars.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• Out Run 2019 (1993)
• Blade Runner (1997)
• Martian Gothic: Unification (2000)
• The House of the Dead III (2002)
• TimeSplitters 2 (2002) (the "Neotokyo" level)
• Robotics;Notes (2012)
• The Last of Us, Ellie and Riley are born (2013)

Film

• Blade Runner (1982), in November
• The New Barbarians aka. Warriors of the Wasteland (1982)
• 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
• The Running Man (1987)
• Akira (1988)
• Cybernetics Guardian (1989)
• The Island (2005), on July 19 until July 23.
• Daybreakers (2010)
• In Time (2011)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Television

• According to the comedy TV series, The Last Man on Earth, a mysterious plague wipes out almost all of humanity.
• Futurama Season 2, Episode 18: The Honking. As said by the Robot actor "Calculon", The evil car known as "Project Satan" was put together in 2019 which established the "Were-car" curse featured in the episode.

Music

• Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010): Danger Days is a concept album by the band My Chemical Romance. It takes place in post-apocalyptic California during the year 2019.

Book

• 2019 (2011) ISBN 978-0-615-56831-7

References

1. NASA: Annular Solar Eclipse of 2019 December 26, 2009-09-15, retrieved 2010-08-07
2. "Home Page". European Spallation Source. April 11, 2015.
3. Shakhawat Liton (2009-06-24). "Navy eyes sub, new frigates". Thedailystar.net. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
4. "Laos approves Xayaburi 'mega' dam on Mekong". BBC News. November 6, 2012.
5. "British troops to leave Germany by 2019". Spacedaily.com. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
6. "Historic Vote Moves California Closer to Banning Lead Hunting Ammunition". Biologicaldiversity.org. 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2014-08-11.