2019

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.
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2019 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar2019
MMXIX
Ab urbe condita2772
Armenian calendar1468
ԹՎ ՌՆԿԸ
Assyrian calendar6769
Baháʼí calendar175–176
Balinese saka calendar1940–1941
Bengali calendar1426
Berber calendar2969
British Regnal year67 Eliz. 2 – 68 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2563
Burmese calendar1381
Byzantine calendar7527–7528
Chinese calendar戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
4716 or 4509
    — to —
己亥年 (Earth Pig)
4717 or 4510
Coptic calendar1735–1736
Discordian calendar3185
Ethiopian calendar2011–2012
Hebrew calendar5779–5780
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2075–2076
 - Shaka Samvat1940–1941
 - Kali Yuga5119–5120
Holocene calendar12019
Igbo calendar1019–1020
Iranian calendar1397–1398
Islamic calendar1440–1441
Japanese calendarHeisei 31 / Reiwa 1
(令和元年)
Javanese calendar1952–1953
Juche calendar108
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4352
Minguo calendarROC 108
民國108年
Nanakshahi calendar551
Thai solar calendar2562
Tibetan calendar阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
2145 or 1764 or 992
    — to —
阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
2146 or 1765 or 993
Unix time1546300800 – 1577836799

2019 (MMXIX) was 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 and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.

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.[1]

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.[2][3]

  1. ^ Allam, Zaheer (2020). "The First 50 days of COVID-19: A Detailed Chronological Timeline and Extensive Review of Literature Documenting the Pandemic". Surveying the Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Implications: 1–7. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-824313-8.00001-2. ISBN 9780128243138. PMC 7378494.
  2. ^ Nicholas Kristof (December 28, 2019). "This Has Been the Best Year Ever". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 4, 2021. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  3. ^ The Brian Lehrer Show (December 31, 2019). "2019: Best Year Ever?". WNYC. Archived from the original on December 16, 2022. Retrieved August 25, 2022.