2018

2018 — Korea: 한일 해상 군사 분쟁 / China: China–United States trade war / Japan: 2018 Osaka earthquake / United States: Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore

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한일 해상 군사 분쟁 포항 지진 북미정상회담(싱가포르 개최)KO 2월 9일 평창 동계올림픽 개최KO 4월 27일 판문점 선언(판문점 평화의집 개최)KO 201612월 3일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵소추안 발의 20162016 Gyeongju earthquake 20169월 9일 북한 5차 핵실험 20169 December. President Park Geun-hye is impeached. 201610월 24일 JTBC의 태블릿 PC보도 후 대한민국 최악의 국정농단사태 발생, 박근혜 - 최순실 게이트 20161월 6일 북한 4차 핵실험 20175월 10일 문재인 대통령 취임, 문재인 정부 출범 20172017 Pohang earthquake 20173월 10일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵 20176월 18일 강경화 최초 여성 외교부 장관 임명 20175월 12일 국정교과서 폐지 20175월 31일 이낙연 국무총리로 취임 20175월 14일 북한 탄도미사일로 추정되는 미사일 발사 2017March. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision, removing Park from office. 2019코로나19 범유행 2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행 2019북미정상회담(베트남 개최) 201921 May. The South Korean film Parasite premieres at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and becomes the first Korean film to win the top prize. At the 2020 Academy Awards, it becomes the first Korean film to receive any recognition from the academy, and the first non–English language film to win Best Picture. 2020대한민국의 코로나19 범유행 20201월 20일 코로나19 사태 발생	China–United States trade war March — Xi Jinping removed the term limits of the Presidency. 2018 Hualien earthquake He Jiankui affair 月，“嫦娥四号”和“玉兔二号”成功发射升空，此后成功着陆月球，是人类探测器首访月球背面。ZH Harbin hotel fire 月19日-21日，山东寿光市出现洪灾灾害，13人死亡、3人失踪。ZH 月5日-20日，在第十三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上，习近平连任中华人民共和国主席，李克强连任中华人民共和国国务院总理。会议对《八二宪法》进行了第五次修改，《宪法修正案》废除国家主席任期限制，并收录了“习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想”、胡锦涛提出的“科学发展观”等内容。ZH 月底，知名媒体人崔永元爆料“陕西千亿矿权案”中二审案卷丢失，引发巨大争议，该事件最终以最高法院法官王林清在央视新闻上“电视认罪”而结束。ZH 月，中国大陆爆发非洲猪瘟疫情。ZH 月24日，港珠澳大桥建成通车。ZH 月31日，新疆射月沟水库溃坝事件，造成20人遇难、8人失踪。ZH 中華民國直轄市長及縣市長選舉ZH 20162016 southern Taiwan earthquake 2016月16日，亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行）在北京开业。 2016月15日，“天宫二号”空间站发射升空，后于2019年7月结束任务、受控离轨。 2016月25日，500米口径球面射电望远镜在贵州建成启用。 2016月17日，“神舟十一号”载人飞船搭载景海鹏、陈冬两位航天员成功发射升空，与天宫二号对接，并于11月18日返回地球。 2016月16日，量子科学实验卫星（“墨子号”）顺利升空。 2016月4日，原中共中央统战部部长、中共中央办公厅主任令计划因受贿罪、非法获取国家秘密罪、滥用职权罪被判处无期徒刑。 2016January — presidential election; with 56.3% of the vote, DPP candidate Tsai Ing-wen defeats KMT candidate Eric Chu. 2016月25日，原中央军委副主席郭伯雄因受贿罪一审被判处无期徒刑，褫夺中国人民解放军上将军衔。 20162016 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections 2016月30日-7月8日，长江中下游沿江地区及江淮、西南地区东部等地因持续强降雨引发严重水灾，164人死亡，26人失踪；安徽和湖北两省受灾最为严重。 2016月，广东大亚湾核反应堆中微子实验国际合作团队获得2016年度“基础物理学突破奖”。 2016月23日，江苏盐城龙卷风造成99人丧生、846人受伤。 2016月，原西藏自治区党委书记陈全国调任新疆维吾尔自治区委员会书记，新疆开始大规模修建针对穆斯林等少数民族的“新疆再教育营”，在世界范围内引发巨大争议。 2016月，河北邢台特大洪灾造成130人死亡、110人失踪，受灾人口达904万。 2016月4-5日，杭州举办“G20峰会”。 2016月，计划生育“两孩政策”正式施行。 2017月18日-24日，中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会在北京召开，习近平在10月25日召开的中共十九届一中全会上连任中共中央总书记，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括李克强、栗战书、汪洋、王沪宁、赵乐际、韩正（参见：中国共产党第十九届中央委员会）。 20172017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake 2017月1日，“雄安新区”成立。 20172017 Milin earthquake 20172017 National People's Congress election in Hong Kong 2017月29日，原政治局委员孙政才被开除党籍和公职移交司法机关。 2017月，时任美国总统唐纳德·特朗普访华，与中国国家主席习近平会面。 20173月17日高雄三民區下水道火警事故。815全臺大停電。 2017月8日，四川九寨沟地震导致至少25人死亡、数百人受伤。 2019December — First case of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan leading into the subsequent pandemic. 2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행 20192019 Yuen Long attack 20192019 Hualien earthquake 20192019 Prince Edward station attack 20192019 Sichuan earthquake 2019Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus conflict 2019Siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong 20192020 COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China 20192019 Zigong earthquake 2019月起，香港爆发长期大规模“反对逃犯条例修订草案运动”。 2019月，湖北省武汉爆发新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情（COVID-19），疫情逐步向全国和其他国家扩散，2020年3月11日世界卫生组织宣布该疫情为“全球大流行（Pandemic）”。 2019月17日，中国第二艘航空母舰“山东号”正式交付使用。 2019嫦娥四号在月球背面的冯·卡门撞击坑内软着陆。香港反對逃犯條例修訂草案運動。中華民國同性婚姻合法化。武汉新冠疫情爆发。 2019月22日，前中华人民共和国国务院总理、前全国人大常委会委员长李鹏逝世。 2019月，江苏天嘉宜化工厂爆炸事故造成78人死亡。 2019October — 70th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China military parade held in Tiananmen Square 2019May — Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Taiwan. 2019月30日，首批國產特斯拉車輛在特斯拉上海工廠交付。 2019月，《告台湾同胞书》发表40周年纪念会在北京人民大会堂举行，中共中央总书记习近平出席纪念会并提出“习五条”。 2020月30日，《中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法》颁布。 2020마카오의 코로나19 범유행 2020홍콩의 코로나19 범유행 2020中国南方水灾：5月下旬起在长江中下游地区、淮河流域、西南、华南及东南沿海等地因持续强降水引发的严重洪灾；6月初开始，中国中央气象台发布连续40天（6月2日－7月11日）暴雨预警，多省发生暴洪、城区内涝、渍灾。官方数据显示至少有6346万人次受灾，直接财产损失超过1789亿元人民币。 2020月17日，“嫦娥五号”月球探测器在月球表面取样后成功返航。 2020COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai 2020Hong Kong 12 2020티베트 자치구의 코로나19 범유행 2020Xiao Zhan incident 2020月2日，蚂蚁集团有关人员马云等人被约谈，次日晚间上海证券交易所宣布蚂蚁金服暂缓上市。 2020COVID-19 pandemic in Sichuan 2020COVID-19 pandemic in Guangdong 2020COVID-19 pandemic in Henan 20202020 Kashgar earthquake 2020月，知名房地产企业家任志强被查，此后被判处有期徒刑18年。 2020月27日，中国关闭美国驻成都总领事馆，作为对美国关闭中国驻休斯敦总领事馆的反制措施。 2020月28日，《中华人民共和国民法典》颁布。 2020月，中国政府在内蒙古自治区强行推行普通话教学，引发大规模争议和冲突。 2020January — Tsai Ing-wen re-elected as ROC President continuing deterioration of relations with the PRC. 2020中國大陸各地因疫情進入封閉管理狀態。蔡英文连任中华民国总统。《中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法》颁布。中国南方水灾。李登輝逝。嫦娥五号从月面带回岩石和土壤。 2020月31日，北斗三号导航系统正式启用。 2020月2日，关于发生在武汉的肺炎疫情，包括李文亮医生在内的8名“散布谣言者”被“依法查处”。 2020月5日起，中印边境冲突造成双方人员伤亡。 2020月28日起，外国人永久居留管理条例争议在中国的互联网爆发，相关话题点击量在微博上达46亿（截至3月4日）。 2020月23日，“武汉封城”，此前已有至少500万人从武汉逃离至各地。 2020June — Hong Kong national security law passed. 2020月4日，重庆永川吊水洞矿难，造成23人死亡。	2018 Osaka earthquake December — Since the founder of International Whaling Commission in 1946, Japan announced that IWC had failed its duty to promote sustainable hunting, which is one of its stated goals, Japan is withdrawing its membership and will resume commercial hunting in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone from July 2019, but will cease whaling activities in the Antarctic Ocean. August — According to Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism official confirmed report, nine people died when a Bell 412EP helicopter crashed into the forest site in Nakanojō, Gunma Prefecture. March — According to the Japan Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, an official report confirmed the Kumano cherry tree (Kumanozakura) as a new species Cherry tree (Sakura). The tree was discovered widely throughout the Kii Peninsula. The last new type of Sakura tree found in Japan was in 1915. 한일 해상 군사 분쟁 시마네현 서부 지진 October — Toyosu Market has opened as the largest wholesale fish market in the world. It replaced the old Tsukiji fish market. April — Japan activated the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, its first marine unit since World War II. They're trained to counter invaders from occupying Japanese islands. July to 26 August — East Asia heat wave kills least 116 people, due to heat-related causes, and at least 22,000 more suffer from heat strokes. September — A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit Hokkaido created a region-wide power outage, because of damage to a thermal power station in the hard-hit town, Atsuma. According to a Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official report, 41 people were killed and 692 people were wounded. March — Japanese government has official confirmed that Japanese Ministry of Finance rewrote 14 decision documents in accordance with the response about a cooperative school in Osaka Prefecture to the National Assembly in 2017. December — Japan executes two more prisoners, bringing 2018 executions to 15 taking annual total to highest since 2008. June to 9 July — Heavy floods was started in western areas of Japan, most in Hiroshima Prefecture, which has been hit by torrential rain. As of 20 July, 225 people were killed, another 13 were declared missing, and 1.5 million people were displaced. 2016to 27 May — The 42nd G7 summit is held on Kashiko Island. 2016July — Yuriko Koike won the Tokyo gubernatorial election and was elected the 9th Governor of Tokyo Metropolis. 20162016 Tottori earthquake 2016July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the House of Councillors election for the second time. 20162016 Okinawa prefectural election 2016우치우라만 지진 2016to 16 April — A series of major earthquakes strikes Kumamoto Prefecture, killing 277 people and injuring 2,809. 2016January — The Supreme Court rejects the appeal of former Aum Shinrikyo founder and leader Shoko Asahara, and his sentence of 9 years in prison is confirmed. 2017November — Emperor Akihito announces that he intends to retire and the end of Heisei period on April 30, 2019. 2017October — Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. 20172017 Tokyo prefectural election 2017October — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the third time. 2017가나가와현 토막 살인 사건 2017Kemono Friends Tatsuki firing controversy 2017June — According to National Police Agency confirmed report, eight person arrested for violating customs law, who brought the equivalent of about 200 kg of gold, about 8.2 million US dollars to the fishing port without permission in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture. 2019코로나19 범유행 2019July — Japan announces tightening of high-tech exports to South Korea, effective on 4 July, thus begin the trade dispute between the two countries from July 2019 to March 2023. 2019Kyoto Animation arson attack 2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행 2019Naruhito, accession 2019September to 2 November — 2019 Rugby World Cup begins in Japan. 2019May 2019 to 1 January 2020 — The 2019 Emperor's Cup begins. 20192019 Yamagata earthquake 2019July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wins the House of Councillors election for the third time. 2019구마모토 지진 2019Cherry blossom scandal 20192019 Hokkaido prefectural election 20192019 Kanagawa prefectural election 2019일본 보궐선거 2019(令和元年) 2019November — The oldest living former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone died of natural causes at aged 101. 2019July — The tourist boom in Japan reach unprecedented scale, with a number of yearly visitors counting in millions - 19.73 in 2015, 23.97 in 2016, 28.6 in 2017, and 31.19 million foreign visitors in 2018. 2019April — Emperor Akihito is abdicated, becoming the first Japanese emperor to do so since 1817. Prince Naruhito succeeds his father as the Emperor of Japan, which marks the start of Reiwa period. 2019August — Japan announces the removal of South Korea from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on 28 August 2019. 20202020 Summer Olympics 2020일본의 코로나19 범유행 2020도쿄도의 코로나19 범유행 2020April to 29 May — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared the first state of emergency over COVID-19 spreading. 2020August — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned due to his health reasons, such as ulcerative colitis, and he was replaced by his successor Yoshihide Suga at one month later. 2020January — According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare official report, Japan has confirmed the first case of novel coronavirus. It was marked the second exported case of COVID-19 pandemic (After Thailand) and the first reported in Japan. The patient was discharged from the hospital and Japanese government scaled up a whole-of-government coordination mechanism. 2020東京五輪・パラ 2020March — 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics has been postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.	Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore. In the 2018 United States elections, the Democrats retake the House while the Republicans keep the Senate. 미국 우편 폭탄 미수 사건 March for Our Lives 2018 Hawaii earthquake Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants Stephen Hillenburg and Creative leader of Marvel Comics Stan Lee both die in November. United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal 하와이 미사일 경보 2018 Anchorage earthquake 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake October 27, 2018 - A gunman opens fire on the Tree of Life congregation in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting killing 11 and wounding 6. 2018 Women's March Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse November 30, 2018 – Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred. Southern California mudflows 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election The entire West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is impeached. 2016January 6 United States Capitol attack 2016올랜도 나이트클럽 총기 난사 사건 2016U.S. presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president. 2016Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge 20162016 Ohio State University attack 20162016 Old Iliamna earthquake 2016Omar Mateen kills 49 people and injures 53 members of the LGBT community at the Pulse nightclub. 20162016 Oklahoma earthquake 20162016 United States presidential election in New Jersey 2016Obama's America (2012) 2016election 201636 people are killed in the Oakland Warehouse Fire. 2017라스베이거스 스트립 총기 난사 사건 2017Relations between the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the country tested missiles in various places. 2017Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20172017 Women's March 20172017 New York City truck attack 2017Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands. 2017United States and the Paris Agreement 2017October 1, 2017 – A gunman opens fire at a Las Vegas Strip concert, killing 60 people and injuring 867. This was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. 2017Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in the United States, flooding broad swaths of Texas and Louisiana and causing tens of billions of dollars of damage, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. 2017Fort Lauderdale airport shooting. 2017Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power. 2017Film producer Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexual harassment in a New York Times expose, marking the beginning of the Me Too movement. 20172017 New York City Subway bombing 2017Oroville Dam crisis 2017February 14, 2018 – A gunman kills 17 people and injures 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. 2017A white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia leads to three deaths and to the discussion about racism in modern American society. The term alt-right receives renewed popular consciousness. 2017Vote Count 2017January 20, 2017 – Trump becomes the 45th president, Pence becomes the 48th vice president. Trump is the first person without prior military or government service to hold the office. 2017Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation. 2017November 5, 2017 – A gunman kills 26 people and wounds 22 others at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before killing himself. This was the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history and the deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history. 2017state visit to China 2019코로나19 범유행 2019Twelve-Day War 2019April 11, 2020 – The U.S. becomes the country with the highest number of reported COVID-19 deaths: over 20,000, overtaking Italy. 2019February 28, 2025 – Donald Trump and JD Vance get into an argument with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House over U.S. support for Ukraine. This occurs after the U.S. sided with Russia in a United Nations resolution that condemned Russian aggression against Ukraine. 2019February 1, 2025 – The United States enters a trade war with Canada and Mexico after Donald Trump signed tariffs on the two nations as well as China. Mexico and Canada claims this action violates the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. 2019February 28, 2026 – The U.S. and Israel launch strikes on Iran, killing Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and starting a war against Iran. 2019January 3, 2026 – The U.S. Armed Forces launches strikes on Venezuela and captures Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. 2019January 18, 2025 – Social media company TikTok, which has 170 million users in the United States, goes offline in the United States before a law banning the platform would take effect. TikTok services were restored the next day. 2019September 1, 2025 – The U.S. Navy begins military strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, killing at least 87 in what has been described as extrajudicial killings that violate international law. 2019April 16, 2020 – It is revealed that nearly 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment within a single month due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. 2019February 29, 2020 – The Trump administration and the Taliban sign a conditional peace agreement in Doha, Qatar as part of a process to end the War in Afghanistan. 2019June 11, 2026 – The 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, opens. 2019November 7, 2020 – Four days after election day, Joe Biden is elected president; Kamala Harris is elected vice president. 2019March 15, 2025 – Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national residing in Maryland, is unlawfully deported by the Trump administration via an "administrative error." Garcia was imprisoned without trial at the Terrorism Confinement Center maximum security prison in El Salvador. Despite court orders to "facilitate and effectuate" his return, the Trump administration and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele initially refused to do so. Garcia was returned to the United States in June to face criminal charges. 2019October 13, 2021 – Star Trek actor William Shatner becomes the oldest person to go into space, at age 90, on board the Blue Origin NS-18, launched from Texas. 20192019 Trump–Ukraine scandal 2019March 11, 2020 – The World Health Organization officially declares COVID-19 a global pandemic. 2019February 5, 2026 – New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia, officially expires. 2019March 15, 2025 – Over 53 people are killed after the U.S. military launched large-scale air and naval attacks against Houthis in Yemen. 2019June 12, 2026 – Elon Musk becomes the first US-dollar trillionaire in U.S. and world history. 2019May 8, 2025 – Following the 2025 papal conclave, Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) of Chicago, Illinois, became the first pope born in the United States. 2019UPS Airlines Flight 2976 2019April 1, 2026 – Artemis II is launched by NASA, becoming the first crewed mission past low Earth orbit since the Apollo program. 2019Med Jets Flight 056 2019April 8, 2020 – Senator Bernie Sanders suspends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee. 2019March 26, 2020 – The Trump administration indicts Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's government of drug trafficking and narcoterrorism and offers a $15 million reward for information leading to Maduro's arrest. 2019October 2, 2020 – President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are diagnosed with COVID-19. The former is taken to Walter Reed hospital. 2019January 26, 2020 – Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter, Gianna, and 7 others, perish in a helicopter crash. 2019리지크레스트 지진 2019March 26, 2019 – Vice President Mike Pence orders NASA to fly Americans to the Moon within the next five years, using either government or private carriers. 2019January 29, 2025 – American Eagle Flight 5342 collides with a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. near Reagan National Airport, killing all people on both aircraft, including U.S. Figure Skating athletes. It was the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly a quarter century. 2019June 17, 2021 – Juneteenth National Independence Day Act is passed, making Juneteenth a federal holiday. 2019February 22, 2019 – Singer R. Kelly charged with ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for incidents dating back as far as the year 1998. 2019October 3, 2023 – McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be removed from office. 2019November 19, 2025 – The Epstein Files Transparency Act is signed into law by President Trump, which requires that all files relating to Jeffrey Epstein be released. 2019August 10, 2019 – Financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell under mysterious circumstances. It was declared a suicide by hanging, although the ruling is widely disputed. 2019August 3, 2019 – 23 people are killed and another 23 are injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. 2019September 10, 2025 – Conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk is assassinated at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. 2019August 28, 2020 – Actor Chadwick Boseman dies from colon cancer. 2019September 18, 2020 – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies. 2019American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 2019August 12, 2019 – An anonymous whistleblower filed a complaint against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, claiming that the two sought foreign intervention in the 2020 presidential election. This complaint would lead to an investigation into the Trump-Ukraine scandal. 2019March 31, 2025 – Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey delivered a 25 hour long speech in the U.S. Senate to protest the policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It surpassed Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to become the longest speech in Senate history. 2019May 25, 2020 – George Floyd, an African-American man living in Minneapolis, dies by asphyxiation after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes. This occurred during an arrest in which Floyd was suspected of using a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. Chauvin was arrested for murder and multiple demonstrations against police brutality occurred globally. 2019May 24, 2022 – A school shooting in Uvalde, Texas kills 19 students and two teachers. 2019October 25, 2023 – Mike Johnson elected Speaker. 2019April 15, 2021 – Nine people are killed, including the shooter, and seven injured, in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. 2019August 10, 2021 – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces he will resign effective August 24 after an inquiry found he sexually harassed multiple women. 2019July 26, 2019 – The Supreme Court rules in a 5–4 vote to give President Trump $2.5 billion to fund the Mexico–United States border wall. 2019May 2, 2026 – American low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines ceases operations after entering Chapter 11 bankrupcy. 2019Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 2019December 29, 2021 – British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is convicted in a federal court on five of six charges relating to her recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. 2019April 15, 2020 – Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer faces two federal lawsuits accusing her of violating constitutional rights during the state's containment efforts. Thousands of people attend a protest in Lansing as anti-lockdown sentiment spreads. 2019November 4, 2025 – The November 2025 United States elections result in what has been described as "blue wave" for the Democrats, with them winning gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. In New York City, Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins the city's mayoral race and the Democrats win several downballot races in Georgia and Pennsylvania. The Democrats also pass Proposition 50 in California, which will allow them to redistrict the state's congressional districts. 2019July 7–11, 2024 – Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas, causing at least $6 billion (2024 USD) in damage to the state, before continuing across the central United States, where it produced a large and significant tornado outbreak consisting of 68 tornadoes. At least 48 deaths occurred in the United States as a result of Beryl. 2019CARES Act 2019April 30, 2020 – Armed protesters enter the Michigan State Capitol building to demand an end to lockdown measures. 2019District of Columbia Home Rule Act 2019June 24, 2022 – Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court. 2019January 20, 2025 – Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, and JD Vance becomes the 50th Vice President of the United States. Trump signs a number of executive orders which withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords, established the Department of Government Efficiency, pardoned January 6th defendants, delayed the TikTok ban, and attempted to end birthright citizenship, among other things. 2019January 3, 2020 – President Donald Trump approves the targeted killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad, Iraq. 2019February 13, 2021 – Donald Trump is acquitted by the Senate in his second impeachment trial. Seven Republicans joined Democrats in voting to convict Trump. 2019July 21, 2024 – Incumbent President Joe Biden withdraws from the 2024 United States presidential election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democratic nominee. 2019July 3, 2025 – The United States Congress narrowly passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. President Trump signs it into law the next day. 2019June 14, 2025 – Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman and her spouse are assassinated in what law-enforcement believe is an anti-abortion motivated attack. Another legislator, John Hoffman and his spouse, were also targeted, but survived. 2019April 14, 2020 – President Trump announces that he will suspend U.S. funding of the World Health Organization (WHO) pending an investigation into its early response to the outbreak. 2019December 29, 2024 – Jimmy Carter, president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, dies at the age of 100 in Plains, Georgia. He was the only centenarian president. 2019December 19, 2025 – Portions of the Epstein Files are released by the U.S. Department of Justice as a result of the deadline set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The release has been highly criticized for heavy redactions and multiple unreleased documents. 2019February 24, 2020 – Former film producer Harvey Weinstein is found guilty of rape. 20192019 Women's March 2019May 15, 2020 – The Trump administration formally announces Operation Warp Speed, a public–private partnership for accelerating the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. 2019November 17, 2021 – The U.S. House of Representatives votes 223–207 to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R–AZ) after he posted a photo-shopped anime clip of him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–NY) and threatening President Biden, making him the first lawmaker to be censured since Charlie Rangel in 2010. 20192019 Virginia House of Delegates election 2019March 11, 2025 – Information regarding military operations in Yemen were leaked after Jeffrey Goldberg, an editor from The Atlantic, was accidentally added into a Signal group chat with senior government officials. 2019November 26, 2025 – Two members of the West Virginia National Guard, who were deployed to Washington, D.C., were shot near Farragut West Station. 2019February 20, 2026 – The Supreme Court's ruling in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump vacates many of the tariffs implemented by Donald Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which are quickly replaced with new tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. 2019May 21, 2025 – 2 Israeli embassy staff members are shot and killed outside the Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. 2019March 31, 2021 – Four people are killed and two others, including the suspect, are injured in a shooting at an office building in Orange, California. 2019December 4, 2024 – Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthCare, was shot and killed outside the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. Alleged killer Luigi Mangione was arrested five days later in Altoona, Pennsylvania and was charged with the murder of Thompson. 2019January 21, 2020 – The first patient in the United States is diagnosed with coronavirus. 2019May 26, 2021 – A mass shooting occurs at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority rail yard in San Jose, California, leaving ten people dead, including the gunman, who committed suicide. 2019February 14, 2026 – A partial government shutdown, impacting the Department of Homeland Security, begins. The shutdown sees major disruptions at U.S. airports. 2019February 22, 2025 – A mass shooting and hostage situation occurs at the UPMC Memorial Hospital in Shiloh, Pennsylvania. Two people, the shooter and a police officer, were killed and five were injured. 2019May 27, 2020 – The official nationwide COVID-19 death toll surpasses 100,000—more Americans than were killed in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined, and approaching that of the First World War, when more than 116,000 Americans died in combat. 2019April 27, 2020 – The US Pentagon releases three UFO videos. 2019April 1, 2025 – Susan M. Crawford defeated Brad Schimel in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, which became the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history. 2019January 6 defendants 2019May 9, 2021 – Seven people are shot dead at a birthday party in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 2019April 2, 2025 – Donald Trump announced a 10% universal import duty on all goods brought into the U.S. and even higher rates for certain trading partners as a part of his protectionist tariff policies. 2019December 14, 2020 – The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are given out in the United States. 2019April 4, 2019 – The 1973 War Powers Act Resolution is invoked for the first time when the House of Representatives votes 247–175 to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia in its intervention in the Yemeni Civil War. 2019February 15 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces that Congress will establish a 9/11-styled commission to investigate the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol. 2019March 7, 2021 – Floods in Hawaii leave one missing, destroy six homes, force evacuations, and leave 1,300 without electricity. 2019November 30, 2021 – Four students are killed and seven other people are injured in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan. 2019April 2, 2021 – The Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. is placed under lockdown after a suspect rams a car into a barricade on Constitution Avenue and exits the vehicle holding a knife. Two police officers are injured in the attack and taken to a hospital, where one dies from his injuries. The suspect is killed by Capitol Police. 2019January 25, 2019 – The second-longest government shutdown in American history, which lasted from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019 (35 days), officially ends. 2019Mexican drug boss/lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found guilty on all ten counts at a drug-trafficking trial in New York. 2019July 7, 2025 – The U.S. Department of Justice releases a memo claiming that the Epstein files do not exist, creating division among the Trump's political base. 2019July 13, 2024 – While campaigning for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, former President of the United States Donald Trump is injured in an assassination attempt at a rally he held near Butler, Pennsylvania. 2019June 8, 2019 – President Trump reaches an agreement with Mexico to avoid tariffs. 2019August 4, 2019 – A gunman opens fire on a bar in Dayton, Ohio. He kills nine people and injures another 27. 2019January 19, 2026 – A sewage spill releases over 240 million gallons of untreated wastewater into the Potomac River in one of the largest sewage spills in U.S. history. 2019February 13–17 – A major winter storm kills 58 people in the United States (and 12 in Mexico) and causes over 9,724,000 power outages across 13 states in the Midwest and Southwest, with Southwest Power Pool declaring an "energy emergency". 2019January 22, 2026 – The United States officially withdraws from the World Health Organization. 2019The Supreme Court case Bucklew V. Precythe rules 5 to 4 that inmates on death row are not guaranteed "painless executions" under the Constitution. 2019June 14, 2019 – One person dies and two more are injured after a gunman entered a Costco in Southern California. 2019September 24, 2019 – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the House of Representatives would begin an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. 2019July 28, 2025 – 3 people are killed and 7 injured in mass shooting at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. Later in the day, a separate mass shooting in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City kills 4 and injures 1. 2019December 18, 2019 – The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors. 2019April 17, 2025 – A shooting at Florida State University kills 2 and injures 6. 2019March 3, 2020 – Super Tuesday 2020 takes place. 2019October 8, 2020 – The FBI announces that thirteen men have been arrested for plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer. 2019May 31, 2019 – A city employee for Virginia Beach enters a municipal building with a gun and kills 12 people. 2019April 27, 2019 – A gunman kills one and injures three in a California synagogue. The suspect is white supremacist John Timothy Earnest, who was 19 years old at the time. 2019March 22, 2021 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at a King Soopers location in Boulder, Colorado. This is the second mass shooting with at least 8 dead in a week. 2019January 16, 2020 – The first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins in the U.S. Senate. 2019February 27, 2019 – 2019 North Korea – United States Hanoi Summit held in Vietnam. It is the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. 2019October 1, 2025 – The U.S. Federal Government enters a shutdown after Congress failed to pass appropriations legislation. On November 5th, it became the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Eight senate Democrats joined Republicans in passing an agreement to end the shutdown on November 9th, and the House voted to end the shutdown on November 12th. 2019August 27, 2025 – A shooting at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis, Minnesota leaves three dead and twenty-three injured. 2019January 1, 2025 – A truck attack kills 15 people in New Orleans, Louisiana. A separate incident occurred on the same day in Paradise, Nevada after a Cybertruck exploded at the entrance of Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, killing the perpetrator. 2019November 3, 2020 – U.S. presidential election, 2020 2019February 26, 2020 – 6 people are killed in a mass shooting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before the perpetrator killed himself. 2019June 24, 2021 – A condominium in Miami collapses, killing ninety-eight people and injuring eleven others. 2019April 25, 2026 – A shooting occurs at the 2026 White House Correspondent's Dinner. One officer was shot in the bullet-resistant vest while President Trump was left unharmed. 2019March 16, 2020 – The Dow Jones falls by −2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second largest percentage drop ever at −12.93%, a larger crash than the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Most schools are also closed by this date. 2019October 10, 2020 – Lee Keltner, a navy veteran and custom western hat maker, was shot following a "patriot rally" in Denver. 2019June 9, 2019 – A construction crane falls on an apartment complex in Dallas, killing 1 person and injuring 6. 2019October 31, 2020 - Most protest-related deaths this year involved shootings, with many incidents stemming from confrontations at protests that escalated fatally when at least one participant was armed. 2019April 21, 2020 – Oil prices reach a record low, falling into negative values, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war. 2019July 13–16, 2024 – An intense sequence of severe weather outbreaks affected much of the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, producing two significant derechoes that each had wind gusts exceeding 100 mph (160 km/h), as well as multiple tornado outbreaks that produced a combined 90 tornadoes. 2019January 6, 2021 – Trump-supporting rioters storm the United States Capitol, forcing Congress to evacuate and interrupting the Electoral College vote count that certified Joe Biden's victory. 2019All the works published in 1923 except for sound recordings (2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States. 2019August 20, 2025 – The Texas State House passes a new congressional map which gives Republicans an advantage in the 2026 United States House of Representatives elections. This action initiated a wave of redistricting by both parties in several states to give themselves an advantage in the 2026 midterms through gerrymandering. 2019August 30, 2021 – The United States withdraws its remaining troops from Afghanistan, ending its 20-year involvement in the War in Afghanistan. 2019November 12, 2025 – The last Penny is minted by the Philadelphia Mint after more than two centuries of circulation. 2019March 13, 2020 – President Trump declares a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, freeing up $50 billion in disaster relief funds. 2019January 20, 2021 – Biden becomes the 46th president and Harris becomes the 49th vice president. Harris is the first woman to hold her office. 2019December 10, 2021 – A late season tornado outbreak occurs in the Southern and Midwestern United States, causing major damage and killing at least 94 people. 2019March 16, 2021 – A spa shooting in Atlanta leaves 8 dead; 6 of the victims were of Asian descent. 2019October 10, 2025 – An explosion at a munitions factory in Humphreys County, Tennessee kills 16. 2019May 21, 2026 – 50,000 people are placed in an evacuation order after a chemical leak occurs in Orange County, California. 2019January 1, 2019 – Washington bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle. 2019April 7, 2021 – Six people are killed by gunshots at a house in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The shooter, former NFL cornerback Phillip Adams, later committed suicide. 2019May 15, 2025 – 27 people are killed in a tornado outbreak that impacted the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. 2019February 1, 2019 – President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. 2019January 13, 2021 – Trump becomes the only president to be impeached for a second time. Ten Republicans join all Senate Democrats in voting to impeach Trump. 2019March 24, 2020 – The U.S. box office records zero revenue for the first time ever. 2019November 5, 2021 – A crowd crush during a Travis Scott concert at the Astroworld Festival in Houston kills ten people and injures more than 300. 2019February 5, 2020 – The majority of the United States Senate votes to acquit President Trump of charges related to the Trump-Ukraine scandal. 2019July 4–7, 2025 – Floods in the Texas Hill Country of Central Texas kill over 100. 2019state visit to the United Kingdom 2019March 5, 2020 – The U.S. Senate approves an $8.3 billion federal emergency aid package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2019January 30, 2019 – Large portions of the United States are hit with a polar vortex. The city of Chicago once again hit a record low: 27 degrees below zero. It occurred for fifty-two straight hours. 2019March 26, 2024 – The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland collapses, killing 6 construction workers. 2019June 29, 2025 – Two firefighters are killed in an ambush while responding to a brush fire in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. 20192019 Presidents Day protest 2019Families First Coronavirus Response Act 2019Trump–Zelenskyy phone call 2020Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement 20202020 United States presidential election in Louisiana 2020COVID-19 pandemic in Wyoming 20202020 United States presidential election in Minnesota 20202020 United States presidential election in Michigan 20202020 United States presidential election in Mississippi 20202020 United States presidential election in Maryland 20202020 United States presidential election in Massachusetts 2020COVID-19 pandemic in Utah 2020Orange Skies Day 2020campaign 20202020 Women's March 2020Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration

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201612월 3일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵소추안 발의
20162016 Gyeongju earthquake
20169월 9일 북한 5차 핵실험
20169 December. President Park Geun-hye is impeached.
201610월 24일 JTBC의 태블릿 PC보도 후 대한민국 최악의 국정농단사태 발생, 박근혜 - 최순실 게이트
20161월 6일 북한 4차 핵실험
20175월 10일 문재인 대통령 취임, 문재인 정부 출범
20172017 Pohang earthquake
20173월 10일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵
20176월 18일 강경화 최초 여성 외교부 장관 임명
20175월 12일 국정교과서 폐지
20175월 31일 이낙연 국무총리로 취임
20175월 14일 북한 탄도미사일로 추정되는 미사일 발사
2017March. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision, removing Park from office.
2019코로나19 범유행
2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행
2019북미정상회담(베트남 개최)
201921 May. The South Korean film Parasite premieres at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and becomes the first Korean film to win the top prize. At the 2020 Academy Awards, it becomes the first Korean film to receive any recognition from the academy, and the first non–English language film to win Best Picture.
2020대한민국의 코로나19 범유행
20201월 20일 코로나19 사태 발생

China–United States trade war
March — Xi Jinping removed the term limits of the Presidency.
2018 Hualien earthquake
He Jiankui affair
月，“嫦娥四号”和“玉兔二号”成功发射升空，此后成功着陆月球，是人类探测器首访月球背面。ZH
Harbin hotel fire
月19日-21日，山东寿光市出现洪灾灾害，13人死亡、3人失踪。ZH
月5日-20日，在第十三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上，习近平连任中华人民共和国主席，李克强连任中华人民共和国国务院总理。会议对《八二宪法》进行了第五次修改，《宪法修正案》废除国家主席任期限制，并收录了“习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想”、胡锦涛提出的“科学发展观”等内容。ZH
月底，知名媒体人崔永元爆料“陕西千亿矿权案”中二审案卷丢失，引发巨大争议，该事件最终以最高法院法官王林清在央视新闻上“电视认罪”而结束。ZH
月，中国大陆爆发非洲猪瘟疫情。ZH
月24日，港珠澳大桥建成通车。ZH
月31日，新疆射月沟水库溃坝事件，造成20人遇难、8人失踪。ZH
中華民國直轄市長及縣市長選舉ZH

20162016 southern Taiwan earthquake
2016月16日，亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行）在北京开业。
2016月15日，“天宫二号”空间站发射升空，后于2019年7月结束任务、受控离轨。
2016月25日，500米口径球面射电望远镜在贵州建成启用。
2016月17日，“神舟十一号”载人飞船搭载景海鹏、陈冬两位航天员成功发射升空，与天宫二号对接，并于11月18日返回地球。
2016月16日，量子科学实验卫星（“墨子号”）顺利升空。
2016月4日，原中共中央统战部部长、中共中央办公厅主任令计划因受贿罪、非法获取国家秘密罪、滥用职权罪被判处无期徒刑。
2016January — presidential election; with 56.3% of the vote, DPP candidate Tsai Ing-wen defeats KMT candidate Eric Chu.
2016月25日，原中央军委副主席郭伯雄因受贿罪一审被判处无期徒刑，褫夺中国人民解放军上将军衔。
20162016 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections
2016月30日-7月8日，长江中下游沿江地区及江淮、西南地区东部等地因持续强降雨引发严重水灾，164人死亡，26人失踪；安徽和湖北两省受灾最为严重。
2016月，广东大亚湾核反应堆中微子实验国际合作团队获得2016年度“基础物理学突破奖”。
2016月23日，江苏盐城龙卷风造成99人丧生、846人受伤。
2016月，原西藏自治区党委书记陈全国调任新疆维吾尔自治区委员会书记，新疆开始大规模修建针对穆斯林等少数民族的“新疆再教育营”，在世界范围内引发巨大争议。
2016月，河北邢台特大洪灾造成130人死亡、110人失踪，受灾人口达904万。
2016月4-5日，杭州举办“G20峰会”。
2016月，计划生育“两孩政策”正式施行。
2017月18日-24日，中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会在北京召开，习近平在10月25日召开的中共十九届一中全会上连任中共中央总书记，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括李克强、栗战书、汪洋、王沪宁、赵乐际、韩正（参见：中国共产党第十九届中央委员会）。
20172017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake
2017月1日，“雄安新区”成立。
20172017 Milin earthquake
20172017 National People's Congress election in Hong Kong
2017月29日，原政治局委员孙政才被开除党籍和公职移交司法机关。
2017月，时任美国总统唐纳德·特朗普访华，与中国国家主席习近平会面。
20173月17日高雄三民區下水道火警事故。815全臺大停電。
2017月8日，四川九寨沟地震导致至少25人死亡、数百人受伤。
2019December — First case of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan leading into the subsequent pandemic.
2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행
20192019 Yuen Long attack
20192019 Hualien earthquake
20192019 Prince Edward station attack
20192019 Sichuan earthquake
2019Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus conflict
2019Siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
20192020 COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China
20192019 Zigong earthquake
2019月起，香港爆发长期大规模“反对逃犯条例修订草案运动”。
2019月，湖北省武汉爆发新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情（COVID-19），疫情逐步向全国和其他国家扩散，2020年3月11日世界卫生组织宣布该疫情为“全球大流行（Pandemic）”。
2019月17日，中国第二艘航空母舰“山东号”正式交付使用。
2019嫦娥四号在月球背面的冯·卡门撞击坑内软着陆。香港反對逃犯條例修訂草案運動。中華民國同性婚姻合法化。武汉新冠疫情爆发。
2019月22日，前中华人民共和国国务院总理、前全国人大常委会委员长李鹏逝世。
2019月，江苏天嘉宜化工厂爆炸事故造成78人死亡。
2019October — 70th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China military parade held in Tiananmen Square
2019May — Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Taiwan.
2019月30日，首批國產特斯拉車輛在特斯拉上海工廠交付。
2019月，《告台湾同胞书》发表40周年纪念会在北京人民大会堂举行，中共中央总书记习近平出席纪念会并提出“习五条”。
2020月30日，《中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法》颁布。
2020마카오의 코로나19 범유행
2020홍콩의 코로나19 범유행
2020中国南方水灾：5月下旬起在长江中下游地区、淮河流域、西南、华南及东南沿海等地因持续强降水引发的严重洪灾；6月初开始，中国中央气象台发布连续40天（6月2日－7月11日）暴雨预警，多省发生暴洪、城区内涝、渍灾。官方数据显示至少有6346万人次受灾，直接财产损失超过1789亿元人民币。
2020月17日，“嫦娥五号”月球探测器在月球表面取样后成功返航。
2020COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
2020Hong Kong 12
2020티베트 자치구의 코로나19 범유행
2020Xiao Zhan incident
2020月2日，蚂蚁集团有关人员马云等人被约谈，次日晚间上海证券交易所宣布蚂蚁金服暂缓上市。
2020COVID-19 pandemic in Sichuan
2020COVID-19 pandemic in Guangdong
2020COVID-19 pandemic in Henan
20202020 Kashgar earthquake
2020月，知名房地产企业家任志强被查，此后被判处有期徒刑18年。
2020月27日，中国关闭美国驻成都总领事馆，作为对美国关闭中国驻休斯敦总领事馆的反制措施。
2020月28日，《中华人民共和国民法典》颁布。
2020月，中国政府在内蒙古自治区强行推行普通话教学，引发大规模争议和冲突。
2020January — Tsai Ing-wen re-elected as ROC President continuing deterioration of relations with the PRC.
2020中國大陸各地因疫情進入封閉管理狀態。蔡英文连任中华民国总统。《中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法》颁布。中国南方水灾。李登輝逝。嫦娥五号从月面带回岩石和土壤。
2020月31日，北斗三号导航系统正式启用。
2020月2日，关于发生在武汉的肺炎疫情，包括李文亮医生在内的8名“散布谣言者”被“依法查处”。
2020月5日起，中印边境冲突造成双方人员伤亡。
2020月28日起，外国人永久居留管理条例争议在中国的互联网爆发，相关话题点击量在微博上达46亿（截至3月4日）。
2020月23日，“武汉封城”，此前已有至少500万人从武汉逃离至各地。
2020June — Hong Kong national security law passed.
2020月4日，重庆永川吊水洞矿难，造成23人死亡。

2018 Osaka earthquake
December — Since the founder of International Whaling Commission in 1946, Japan announced that IWC had failed its duty to promote sustainable hunting, which is one of its stated goals, Japan is withdrawing its membership and will resume commercial hunting in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone from July 2019, but will cease whaling activities in the Antarctic Ocean.
August — According to Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism official confirmed report, nine people died when a Bell 412EP helicopter crashed into the forest site in Nakanojō, Gunma Prefecture.
March — According to the Japan Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, an official report confirmed the Kumano cherry tree (Kumanozakura) as a new species Cherry tree (Sakura). The tree was discovered widely throughout the Kii Peninsula. The last new type of Sakura tree found in Japan was in 1915.
한일 해상 군사 분쟁
시마네현 서부 지진
October — Toyosu Market has opened as the largest wholesale fish market in the world. It replaced the old Tsukiji fish market.
April — Japan activated the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, its first marine unit since World War II. They're trained to counter invaders from occupying Japanese islands.
July to 26 August — East Asia heat wave kills least 116 people, due to heat-related causes, and at least 22,000 more suffer from heat strokes.
September — A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit Hokkaido created a region-wide power outage, because of damage to a thermal power station in the hard-hit town, Atsuma. According to a Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official report, 41 people were killed and 692 people were wounded.
March — Japanese government has official confirmed that Japanese Ministry of Finance rewrote 14 decision documents in accordance with the response about a cooperative school in Osaka Prefecture to the National Assembly in 2017.
December — Japan executes two more prisoners, bringing 2018 executions to 15 taking annual total to highest since 2008.
June to 9 July — Heavy floods was started in western areas of Japan, most in Hiroshima Prefecture, which has been hit by torrential rain. As of 20 July, 225 people were killed, another 13 were declared missing, and 1.5 million people were displaced.

2016to 27 May — The 42nd G7 summit is held on Kashiko Island.
2016July — Yuriko Koike won the Tokyo gubernatorial election and was elected the 9th Governor of Tokyo Metropolis.
20162016 Tottori earthquake
2016July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the House of Councillors election for the second time.
20162016 Okinawa prefectural election
2016우치우라만 지진
2016to 16 April — A series of major earthquakes strikes Kumamoto Prefecture, killing 277 people and injuring 2,809.
2016January — The Supreme Court rejects the appeal of former Aum Shinrikyo founder and leader Shoko Asahara, and his sentence of 9 years in prison is confirmed.
2017November — Emperor Akihito announces that he intends to retire and the end of Heisei period on April 30, 2019.
2017October — Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.
20172017 Tokyo prefectural election
2017October — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the third time.
2017가나가와현 토막 살인 사건
2017Kemono Friends Tatsuki firing controversy
2017June — According to National Police Agency confirmed report, eight person arrested for violating customs law, who brought the equivalent of about 200 kg of gold, about 8.2 million US dollars to the fishing port without permission in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture.
2019코로나19 범유행
2019July — Japan announces tightening of high-tech exports to South Korea, effective on 4 July, thus begin the trade dispute between the two countries from July 2019 to March 2023.
2019Kyoto Animation arson attack
2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행
2019Naruhito, accession
2019September to 2 November — 2019 Rugby World Cup begins in Japan.
2019May 2019 to 1 January 2020 — The 2019 Emperor's Cup begins.
20192019 Yamagata earthquake
2019July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wins the House of Councillors election for the third time.
2019구마모토 지진
2019Cherry blossom scandal
20192019 Hokkaido prefectural election
20192019 Kanagawa prefectural election
2019일본 보궐선거
2019(令和元年)
2019November — The oldest living former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone died of natural causes at aged 101.
2019July — The tourist boom in Japan reach unprecedented scale, with a number of yearly visitors counting in millions - 19.73 in 2015, 23.97 in 2016, 28.6 in 2017, and 31.19 million foreign visitors in 2018.
2019April — Emperor Akihito is abdicated, becoming the first Japanese emperor to do so since 1817. Prince Naruhito succeeds his father as the Emperor of Japan, which marks the start of Reiwa period.
2019August — Japan announces the removal of South Korea from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on 28 August 2019.
20202020 Summer Olympics
2020일본의 코로나19 범유행
2020도쿄도의 코로나19 범유행
2020April to 29 May — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared the first state of emergency over COVID-19 spreading.
2020August — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned due to his health reasons, such as ulcerative colitis, and he was replaced by his successor Yoshihide Suga at one month later.
2020January — According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare official report, Japan has confirmed the first case of novel coronavirus. It was marked the second exported case of COVID-19 pandemic (After Thailand) and the first reported in Japan. The patient was discharged from the hospital and Japanese government scaled up a whole-of-government coordination mechanism.
2020東京五輪・パラ
2020March — 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics has been postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
In the 2018 United States elections, the Democrats retake the House while the Republicans keep the Senate.
미국 우편 폭탄 미수 사건
March for Our Lives
2018 Hawaii earthquake
Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants Stephen Hillenburg and Creative leader of Marvel Comics Stan Lee both die in November.
United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal
하와이 미사일 경보
2018 Anchorage earthquake
2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake
October 27, 2018 - A gunman opens fire on the Tree of Life congregation in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting killing 11 and wounding 6.
2018 Women's March
Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse
November 30, 2018 – Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred.
Southern California mudflows
2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election
The entire West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is impeached.

2016January 6 United States Capitol attack
2016올랜도 나이트클럽 총기 난사 사건
2016U.S. presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president.
2016Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
20162016 Ohio State University attack
20162016 Old Iliamna earthquake
2016Omar Mateen kills 49 people and injures 53 members of the LGBT community at the Pulse nightclub.
20162016 Oklahoma earthquake
20162016 United States presidential election in New Jersey
2016Obama's America (2012)
2016election
201636 people are killed in the Oakland Warehouse Fire.
2017라스베이거스 스트립 총기 난사 사건
2017Relations between the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the country tested missiles in various places.
2017Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
20172017 Women's March
20172017 New York City truck attack
2017Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands.
2017United States and the Paris Agreement
2017October 1, 2017 – A gunman opens fire at a Las Vegas Strip concert, killing 60 people and injuring 867. This was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
2017Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in the United States, flooding broad swaths of Texas and Louisiana and causing tens of billions of dollars of damage, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
2017Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.
2017Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power.
2017Film producer Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexual harassment in a New York Times expose, marking the beginning of the Me Too movement.
20172017 New York City Subway bombing
2017Oroville Dam crisis
2017February 14, 2018 – A gunman kills 17 people and injures 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
2017A white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia leads to three deaths and to the discussion about racism in modern American society. The term alt-right receives renewed popular consciousness.
2017Vote Count
2017January 20, 2017 – Trump becomes the 45th president, Pence becomes the 48th vice president. Trump is the first person without prior military or government service to hold the office.
2017Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation.
2017November 5, 2017 – A gunman kills 26 people and wounds 22 others at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before killing himself. This was the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history and the deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history.
2017state visit to China
2019코로나19 범유행
2019Twelve-Day War
2019April 11, 2020 – The U.S. becomes the country with the highest number of reported COVID-19 deaths: over 20,000, overtaking Italy.
2019February 28, 2025 – Donald Trump and JD Vance get into an argument with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House over U.S. support for Ukraine. This occurs after the U.S. sided with Russia in a United Nations resolution that condemned Russian aggression against Ukraine.
2019February 1, 2025 – The United States enters a trade war with Canada and Mexico after Donald Trump signed tariffs on the two nations as well as China. Mexico and Canada claims this action violates the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement.
2019February 28, 2026 – The U.S. and Israel launch strikes on Iran, killing Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and starting a war against Iran.
2019January 3, 2026 – The U.S. Armed Forces launches strikes on Venezuela and captures Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.
2019January 18, 2025 – Social media company TikTok, which has 170 million users in the United States, goes offline in the United States before a law banning the platform would take effect. TikTok services were restored the next day.
2019September 1, 2025 – The U.S. Navy begins military strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, killing at least 87 in what has been described as extrajudicial killings that violate international law.
2019April 16, 2020 – It is revealed that nearly 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment within a single month due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression.
2019February 29, 2020 – The Trump administration and the Taliban sign a conditional peace agreement in Doha, Qatar as part of a process to end the War in Afghanistan.
2019June 11, 2026 – The 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, opens.
2019November 7, 2020 – Four days after election day, Joe Biden is elected president; Kamala Harris is elected vice president.
2019March 15, 2025 – Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national residing in Maryland, is unlawfully deported by the Trump administration via an "administrative error." Garcia was imprisoned without trial at the Terrorism Confinement Center maximum security prison in El Salvador. Despite court orders to "facilitate and effectuate" his return, the Trump administration and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele initially refused to do so. Garcia was returned to the United States in June to face criminal charges.
2019October 13, 2021 – Star Trek actor William Shatner becomes the oldest person to go into space, at age 90, on board the Blue Origin NS-18, launched from Texas.
20192019 Trump–Ukraine scandal
2019March 11, 2020 – The World Health Organization officially declares COVID-19 a global pandemic.
2019February 5, 2026 – New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia, officially expires.
2019March 15, 2025 – Over 53 people are killed after the U.S. military launched large-scale air and naval attacks against Houthis in Yemen.
2019June 12, 2026 – Elon Musk becomes the first US-dollar trillionaire in U.S. and world history.
2019May 8, 2025 – Following the 2025 papal conclave, Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) of Chicago, Illinois, became the first pope born in the United States.
2019UPS Airlines Flight 2976
2019April 1, 2026 – Artemis II is launched by NASA, becoming the first crewed mission past low Earth orbit since the Apollo program.
2019Med Jets Flight 056
2019April 8, 2020 – Senator Bernie Sanders suspends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee.
2019March 26, 2020 – The Trump administration indicts Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's government of drug trafficking and narcoterrorism and offers a $15 million reward for information leading to Maduro's arrest.
2019October 2, 2020 – President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are diagnosed with COVID-19. The former is taken to Walter Reed hospital.
2019January 26, 2020 – Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter, Gianna, and 7 others, perish in a helicopter crash.
2019리지크레스트 지진
2019March 26, 2019 – Vice President Mike Pence orders NASA to fly Americans to the Moon within the next five years, using either government or private carriers.
2019January 29, 2025 – American Eagle Flight 5342 collides with a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. near Reagan National Airport, killing all people on both aircraft, including U.S. Figure Skating athletes. It was the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly a quarter century.
2019June 17, 2021 – Juneteenth National Independence Day Act is passed, making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
2019February 22, 2019 – Singer R. Kelly charged with ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for incidents dating back as far as the year 1998.
2019October 3, 2023 – McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be removed from office.
2019November 19, 2025 – The Epstein Files Transparency Act is signed into law by President Trump, which requires that all files relating to Jeffrey Epstein be released.
2019August 10, 2019 – Financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell under mysterious circumstances. It was declared a suicide by hanging, although the ruling is widely disputed.
2019August 3, 2019 – 23 people are killed and another 23 are injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
2019September 10, 2025 – Conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk is assassinated at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
2019August 28, 2020 – Actor Chadwick Boseman dies from colon cancer.
2019September 18, 2020 – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies.
2019American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
2019August 12, 2019 – An anonymous whistleblower filed a complaint against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, claiming that the two sought foreign intervention in the 2020 presidential election. This complaint would lead to an investigation into the Trump-Ukraine scandal.
2019March 31, 2025 – Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey delivered a 25 hour long speech in the U.S. Senate to protest the policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It surpassed Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to become the longest speech in Senate history.
2019May 25, 2020 – George Floyd, an African-American man living in Minneapolis, dies by asphyxiation after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes. This occurred during an arrest in which Floyd was suspected of using a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. Chauvin was arrested for murder and multiple demonstrations against police brutality occurred globally.
2019May 24, 2022 – A school shooting in Uvalde, Texas kills 19 students and two teachers.
2019October 25, 2023 – Mike Johnson elected Speaker.
2019April 15, 2021 – Nine people are killed, including the shooter, and seven injured, in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
2019August 10, 2021 – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces he will resign effective August 24 after an inquiry found he sexually harassed multiple women.
2019July 26, 2019 – The Supreme Court rules in a 5–4 vote to give President Trump $2.5 billion to fund the Mexico–United States border wall.
2019May 2, 2026 – American low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines ceases operations after entering Chapter 11 bankrupcy.
2019Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
2019December 29, 2021 – British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is convicted in a federal court on five of six charges relating to her recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
2019April 15, 2020 – Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer faces two federal lawsuits accusing her of violating constitutional rights during the state's containment efforts. Thousands of people attend a protest in Lansing as anti-lockdown sentiment spreads.
2019November 4, 2025 – The November 2025 United States elections result in what has been described as "blue wave" for the Democrats, with them winning gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. In New York City, Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins the city's mayoral race and the Democrats win several downballot races in Georgia and Pennsylvania. The Democrats also pass Proposition 50 in California, which will allow them to redistrict the state's congressional districts.
2019July 7–11, 2024 – Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas, causing at least $6 billion (2024 USD) in damage to the state, before continuing across the central United States, where it produced a large and significant tornado outbreak consisting of 68 tornadoes. At least 48 deaths occurred in the United States as a result of Beryl.
2019CARES Act
2019April 30, 2020 – Armed protesters enter the Michigan State Capitol building to demand an end to lockdown measures.
2019District of Columbia Home Rule Act
2019June 24, 2022 – Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court.
2019January 20, 2025 – Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, and JD Vance becomes the 50th Vice President of the United States. Trump signs a number of executive orders which withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords, established the Department of Government Efficiency, pardoned January 6th defendants, delayed the TikTok ban, and attempted to end birthright citizenship, among other things.
2019January 3, 2020 – President Donald Trump approves the targeted killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad, Iraq.
2019February 13, 2021 – Donald Trump is acquitted by the Senate in his second impeachment trial. Seven Republicans joined Democrats in voting to convict Trump.
2019July 21, 2024 – Incumbent President Joe Biden withdraws from the 2024 United States presidential election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democratic nominee.
2019July 3, 2025 – The United States Congress narrowly passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. President Trump signs it into law the next day.
2019June 14, 2025 – Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman and her spouse are assassinated in what law-enforcement believe is an anti-abortion motivated attack. Another legislator, John Hoffman and his spouse, were also targeted, but survived.
2019April 14, 2020 – President Trump announces that he will suspend U.S. funding of the World Health Organization (WHO) pending an investigation into its early response to the outbreak.
2019December 29, 2024 – Jimmy Carter, president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, dies at the age of 100 in Plains, Georgia. He was the only centenarian president.
2019December 19, 2025 – Portions of the Epstein Files are released by the U.S. Department of Justice as a result of the deadline set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The release has been highly criticized for heavy redactions and multiple unreleased documents.
2019February 24, 2020 – Former film producer Harvey Weinstein is found guilty of rape.
20192019 Women's March
2019May 15, 2020 – The Trump administration formally announces Operation Warp Speed, a public–private partnership for accelerating the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
2019November 17, 2021 – The U.S. House of Representatives votes 223–207 to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R–AZ) after he posted a photo-shopped anime clip of him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–NY) and threatening President Biden, making him the first lawmaker to be censured since Charlie Rangel in 2010.
20192019 Virginia House of Delegates election
2019March 11, 2025 – Information regarding military operations in Yemen were leaked after Jeffrey Goldberg, an editor from The Atlantic, was accidentally added into a Signal group chat with senior government officials.
2019November 26, 2025 – Two members of the West Virginia National Guard, who were deployed to Washington, D.C., were shot near Farragut West Station.
2019February 20, 2026 – The Supreme Court's ruling in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump vacates many of the tariffs implemented by Donald Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which are quickly replaced with new tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.
2019May 21, 2025 – 2 Israeli embassy staff members are shot and killed outside the Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
2019March 31, 2021 – Four people are killed and two others, including the suspect, are injured in a shooting at an office building in Orange, California.
2019December 4, 2024 – Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthCare, was shot and killed outside the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. Alleged killer Luigi Mangione was arrested five days later in Altoona, Pennsylvania and was charged with the murder of Thompson.
2019January 21, 2020 – The first patient in the United States is diagnosed with coronavirus.
2019May 26, 2021 – A mass shooting occurs at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority rail yard in San Jose, California, leaving ten people dead, including the gunman, who committed suicide.
2019February 14, 2026 – A partial government shutdown, impacting the Department of Homeland Security, begins. The shutdown sees major disruptions at U.S. airports.
2019February 22, 2025 – A mass shooting and hostage situation occurs at the UPMC Memorial Hospital in Shiloh, Pennsylvania. Two people, the shooter and a police officer, were killed and five were injured.
2019May 27, 2020 – The official nationwide COVID-19 death toll surpasses 100,000—more Americans than were killed in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined, and approaching that of the First World War, when more than 116,000 Americans died in combat.
2019April 27, 2020 – The US Pentagon releases three UFO videos.
2019April 1, 2025 – Susan M. Crawford defeated Brad Schimel in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, which became the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history.
2019January 6 defendants
2019May 9, 2021 – Seven people are shot dead at a birthday party in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
2019April 2, 2025 – Donald Trump announced a 10% universal import duty on all goods brought into the U.S. and even higher rates for certain trading partners as a part of his protectionist tariff policies.
2019December 14, 2020 – The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are given out in the United States.
2019April 4, 2019 – The 1973 War Powers Act Resolution is invoked for the first time when the House of Representatives votes 247–175 to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia in its intervention in the Yemeni Civil War.
2019February 15 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces that Congress will establish a 9/11-styled commission to investigate the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol.
2019March 7, 2021 – Floods in Hawaii leave one missing, destroy six homes, force evacuations, and leave 1,300 without electricity.
2019November 30, 2021 – Four students are killed and seven other people are injured in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.
2019April 2, 2021 – The Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. is placed under lockdown after a suspect rams a car into a barricade on Constitution Avenue and exits the vehicle holding a knife. Two police officers are injured in the attack and taken to a hospital, where one dies from his injuries. The suspect is killed by Capitol Police.
2019January 25, 2019 – The second-longest government shutdown in American history, which lasted from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019 (35 days), officially ends.
2019Mexican drug boss/lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found guilty on all ten counts at a drug-trafficking trial in New York.
2019July 7, 2025 – The U.S. Department of Justice releases a memo claiming that the Epstein files do not exist, creating division among the Trump's political base.
2019July 13, 2024 – While campaigning for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, former President of the United States Donald Trump is injured in an assassination attempt at a rally he held near Butler, Pennsylvania.
2019June 8, 2019 – President Trump reaches an agreement with Mexico to avoid tariffs.
2019August 4, 2019 – A gunman opens fire on a bar in Dayton, Ohio. He kills nine people and injures another 27.
2019January 19, 2026 – A sewage spill releases over 240 million gallons of untreated wastewater into the Potomac River in one of the largest sewage spills in U.S. history.
2019February 13–17 – A major winter storm kills 58 people in the United States (and 12 in Mexico) and causes over 9,724,000 power outages across 13 states in the Midwest and Southwest, with Southwest Power Pool declaring an "energy emergency".
2019January 22, 2026 – The United States officially withdraws from the World Health Organization.
2019The Supreme Court case Bucklew V. Precythe rules 5 to 4 that inmates on death row are not guaranteed "painless executions" under the Constitution.
2019June 14, 2019 – One person dies and two more are injured after a gunman entered a Costco in Southern California.
2019September 24, 2019 – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the House of Representatives would begin an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.
2019July 28, 2025 – 3 people are killed and 7 injured in mass shooting at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. Later in the day, a separate mass shooting in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City kills 4 and injures 1.
2019December 18, 2019 – The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.
2019April 17, 2025 – A shooting at Florida State University kills 2 and injures 6.
2019March 3, 2020 – Super Tuesday 2020 takes place.
2019October 8, 2020 – The FBI announces that thirteen men have been arrested for plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer.
2019May 31, 2019 – A city employee for Virginia Beach enters a municipal building with a gun and kills 12 people.
2019April 27, 2019 – A gunman kills one and injures three in a California synagogue. The suspect is white supremacist John Timothy Earnest, who was 19 years old at the time.
2019March 22, 2021 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at a King Soopers location in Boulder, Colorado. This is the second mass shooting with at least 8 dead in a week.
2019January 16, 2020 – The first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins in the U.S. Senate.
2019February 27, 2019 – 2019 North Korea – United States Hanoi Summit held in Vietnam. It is the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
2019October 1, 2025 – The U.S. Federal Government enters a shutdown after Congress failed to pass appropriations legislation. On November 5th, it became the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Eight senate Democrats joined Republicans in passing an agreement to end the shutdown on November 9th, and the House voted to end the shutdown on November 12th.
2019August 27, 2025 – A shooting at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis, Minnesota leaves three dead and twenty-three injured.
2019January 1, 2025 – A truck attack kills 15 people in New Orleans, Louisiana. A separate incident occurred on the same day in Paradise, Nevada after a Cybertruck exploded at the entrance of Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, killing the perpetrator.
2019November 3, 2020 – U.S. presidential election, 2020
2019February 26, 2020 – 6 people are killed in a mass shooting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before the perpetrator killed himself.
2019June 24, 2021 – A condominium in Miami collapses, killing ninety-eight people and injuring eleven others.
2019April 25, 2026 – A shooting occurs at the 2026 White House Correspondent's Dinner. One officer was shot in the bullet-resistant vest while President Trump was left unharmed.
2019March 16, 2020 – The Dow Jones falls by −2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second largest percentage drop ever at −12.93%, a larger crash than the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Most schools are also closed by this date.
2019October 10, 2020 – Lee Keltner, a navy veteran and custom western hat maker, was shot following a "patriot rally" in Denver.
2019June 9, 2019 – A construction crane falls on an apartment complex in Dallas, killing 1 person and injuring 6.
2019October 31, 2020 - Most protest-related deaths this year involved shootings, with many incidents stemming from confrontations at protests that escalated fatally when at least one participant was armed.
2019April 21, 2020 – Oil prices reach a record low, falling into negative values, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war.
2019July 13–16, 2024 – An intense sequence of severe weather outbreaks affected much of the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, producing two significant derechoes that each had wind gusts exceeding 100 mph (160 km/h), as well as multiple tornado outbreaks that produced a combined 90 tornadoes.
2019January 6, 2021 – Trump-supporting rioters storm the United States Capitol, forcing Congress to evacuate and interrupting the Electoral College vote count that certified Joe Biden's victory.
2019All the works published in 1923 except for sound recordings (2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States.
2019August 20, 2025 – The Texas State House passes a new congressional map which gives Republicans an advantage in the 2026 United States House of Representatives elections. This action initiated a wave of redistricting by both parties in several states to give themselves an advantage in the 2026 midterms through gerrymandering.
2019August 30, 2021 – The United States withdraws its remaining troops from Afghanistan, ending its 20-year involvement in the War in Afghanistan.
2019November 12, 2025 – The last Penny is minted by the Philadelphia Mint after more than two centuries of circulation.
2019March 13, 2020 – President Trump declares a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, freeing up $50 billion in disaster relief funds.
2019January 20, 2021 – Biden becomes the 46th president and Harris becomes the 49th vice president. Harris is the first woman to hold her office.
2019December 10, 2021 – A late season tornado outbreak occurs in the Southern and Midwestern United States, causing major damage and killing at least 94 people.
2019March 16, 2021 – A spa shooting in Atlanta leaves 8 dead; 6 of the victims were of Asian descent.
2019October 10, 2025 – An explosion at a munitions factory in Humphreys County, Tennessee kills 16.
2019May 21, 2026 – 50,000 people are placed in an evacuation order after a chemical leak occurs in Orange County, California.
2019January 1, 2019 – Washington bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle.
2019April 7, 2021 – Six people are killed by gunshots at a house in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The shooter, former NFL cornerback Phillip Adams, later committed suicide.
2019May 15, 2025 – 27 people are killed in a tornado outbreak that impacted the Midwestern and Southeastern United States.
2019February 1, 2019 – President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
2019January 13, 2021 – Trump becomes the only president to be impeached for a second time. Ten Republicans join all Senate Democrats in voting to impeach Trump.
2019March 24, 2020 – The U.S. box office records zero revenue for the first time ever.
2019November 5, 2021 – A crowd crush during a Travis Scott concert at the Astroworld Festival in Houston kills ten people and injures more than 300.
2019February 5, 2020 – The majority of the United States Senate votes to acquit President Trump of charges related to the Trump-Ukraine scandal.
2019July 4–7, 2025 – Floods in the Texas Hill Country of Central Texas kill over 100.
2019state visit to the United Kingdom
2019March 5, 2020 – The U.S. Senate approves an $8.3 billion federal emergency aid package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019January 30, 2019 – Large portions of the United States are hit with a polar vortex. The city of Chicago once again hit a record low: 27 degrees below zero. It occurred for fifty-two straight hours.
2019March 26, 2024 – The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland collapses, killing 6 construction workers.
2019June 29, 2025 – Two firefighters are killed in an ambush while responding to a brush fire in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
20192019 Presidents Day protest
2019Families First Coronavirus Response Act
2019Trump–Zelenskyy phone call
2020Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement
20202020 United States presidential election in Louisiana
2020COVID-19 pandemic in Wyoming
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