2017年

2017年 — 韩国: 5월 10일 문재인 대통령 취임, 문재인 정부 출범 / 中国: 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） / 日本: November — Emperor Akihito announces that he intends to retire and the end of Heisei period on April 30, 2019 / 美国: 라스베이거스 스트립 총기 난사 사건

事件45条。正文照录原始年表原文，来源见来源与许可。上下灰色行是前后2年的脉络。

韩国大韩民国 1948–	中国中华人民共和国 1949–	日本平成 1989–2019	美国美国 1776–
5월 10일 문재인 대통령 취임, 문재인 정부 출범KO 2017年浦項地震 3월 10일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵KO 6월 18일 강경화 최초 여성 외교부 장관 임명KO 5월 12일 국정교과서 폐지KO 5월 31일 이낙연 국무총리로 취임KO 5월 14일 북한 탄도미사일로 추정되는 미사일 발사KO March. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision, removing Park from office.EN 2015한·일 일본군 위안부 협상 타결 201511월 김영삼 전 대통령 서거 201612월 3일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵소추안 발의 20162016年慶州地震 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 2018한일 해상 군사 분쟁 20182018年浦項地震 2018북미정상회담(싱가포르 개최) 20182월 9일 평창 동계올림픽 개최 20184월 27일 판문점 선언(판문점 평화의집 개최) 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.	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）。 2017年九寨沟地震月1日，“雄安新区”成立。 2017年米林地震中華人民共和國香港特別行政區第十三屆全國人民代表大會代表選舉月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。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。 3月17日高雄三民區下水道火警事故。815全臺大停電。月8日，四川九寨沟地震导致至少25人死亡、数百人受伤。 20152月4日復興航空235號班機空難。纪念中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年大会。8月12日2015年天津港危化品仓库爆炸事故。11月7日两岸领导人会面。12月20日深圳滑坡事故。 2015月，屠呦呦成为首位获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的中国籍科学家。 2015September — 2015 China Victory Day Parade was held on the Tiananmen Square. 2015바셴하이안 폭발 사고 2015China–Australia Free Trade Agreement 2015月17日，暗物质粒子探测卫星（“悟空”）顺利发射升空。 2015月28日，國家發改委、外交部、商務部聯合發布《推动共建丝绸之路经济带和21世纪海上丝绸之路的愿景与行动》白皮书，並首次提出粵港澳大灣區概念。 2015June — 2015–2016 Chinese stock market turbulence started. 2015Aksu colliery attack 2015月1日起，中国全面停止使用死囚器官作为移植供体来源，公民逝世后自愿器官捐献将成为中华人民共和国器官移植使用的唯一渠道。 2015November — Ma Ying-jeou meets with Xi Jinping, the first Cross-Strait leader meeting. 2015月9日起，大规模抓捕中国的人权律师，中华人民共和国公安当局在多达23个省份大规模逮捕、传唤、刑事拘留、带走、失联、约谈了上百位律师、民间维权人士、上访民众及其亲属的事件，部分人士因此下落不明。 2015月7日，习近平、马英九的两岸领导人会面在新加坡举行，是自1949年政治分立以来，双方最高领导人的首次会晤。 2015月12日，天津港发生严重爆炸事故，至少165人死亡、798人受伤，直接经济损失68.66亿元人民币。 2015月，中国大陆爆发股灾。 2015月20日，深圳山體滑坡事故，造成73死4失踪、逾900人被疏散。 2015月1日，湖北荆州发生“东方之星号客轮翻沉事件”，共442人死亡。 2015月起，南方大洪水，至少319人死亡、81人失踪。 2015月11日，“周永康案”，原中共中央政治局常委、政法委书记周永康在庭审中，因受贿罪、一滥用职权罪、故意泄露国家秘密罪，被判处无期徒刑剥夺政治权利终身、没收财产。 20162016年高雄美濃地震 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年香港選舉委員會界別分組選舉 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。 2018中美贸易战爆发。花莲地震。习近平修改宪法废除领导人连任限制。宜蘭普悠瑪列車出軌。 2018March — Xi Jinping removed the term limits of the Presidency. 20182018年花莲地震 2018基因编辑婴儿事件 2018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。 2018하얼빈 호텔 화재 2018月19日-21日，山东寿光市出现洪灾灾害，13人死亡、3人失踪。 2018第十三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议 2018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。 2018月，中国大陆爆发非洲猪瘟疫情。 2018月24日，港珠澳大桥建成通车。 2018月31日，新疆射月沟水库溃坝事件，造成20人遇难、8人失踪。 2018中華民國直轄市長及縣市長選舉 2019December — First case of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan leading into the subsequent pandemic. 2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행 2019元朗襲擊事件 20192019年花蓮地震 2019太子站襲擊事件 20192019年长宁地震 2019Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus conflict 2019Siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong 20192020 COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China 20192019年自贡地震 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”。	November — Emperor Akihito announces that he intends to retire and the end of Heisei period on April 30, 2019.EN October — Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.EN 2017年东京都议会议员选举 October — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the third time.EN 座間九人殺害事件動物朋友監督替換事件 June — 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.EN 2015July — President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata died of bile duct cancer at the age of 55. 2015February — JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries conduct their first launch of an Information Gathering Satellite with the aid of an H-IIA rocket F-27 from Tanegashima Space Center. 2015April — The Nikkei 225 index reaches 20,006.00 in the first few minutes of trade, passing the 20,000 level for the first time since April 2000. 2015March — Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, has announces that he discovered the Japanese battleship Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by the United States Navy, in the Sibuyan Sea, of the Philippines. 2015March — Hokuriku Shinkansen starts its service between Nagano and Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, cutting travel time between Tokyo and Kanazawa by about 80 minutes to as little as 2 hours and 28 minutes. 2015April — The Government of South Korea lifts the departure ban on a former chief of the Sankei Shimbun's Seoul bureau, who had been barred from leaving the country for eight months following his indictment in October 2014 for defamation of South Korean President Park Geun-hye. The charges were due to an article, posted on a Sankei website, that referred to a rumor in a South Korean publication that Park was seeing a man on the day of the sinking of MV Sewol in April 2014. 2015March — The main keep of Himeji Castle, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site, reopened to the public after a 5-year restoration project. The keep itself is recognized as one of the National Treasures of Japan. 2015April — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Takeshi Onaga, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture for the first time to push ahead with the government plan to relocate a U.S. military base in Futenma to the proposed location around Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, but failed to reach agreement over the relocation. 2015January — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approves a record defence budget with plans to buy surveillance aircraft and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to improve the security of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China. 2015January — Japan–Australia Economic Partnership Agreement enters into force. 2015수상 관저 무인기 추락 사건 2015August — Sendai Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 reactor is the first reactor to be restarted in accordance with the new regulatory requirements established by the Nuclear Regulation Authority following the Fukushima nuclear accident. 2015한·일 일본군 위안부 협상 타결 2015February — Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau (TMPDPSB) arrests Tsutomu Shirosaki, a Japanese Red Army member, for attempted arson associated with a 1986 mortar attack in Indonesia as he arrives at Narita Airport, having been deported from the United States following his January 16 release from prison. 2015January — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration fines Honda a record 70 million dollars for grossly under-reporting fatal accidents and injuries to the government. 2015March — The Supreme Court rejects prosecutors' claims that a 41-year-old man from Osaka Prefecture in Kansai region, who evaded 570 million yen in taxes by failing to declare income from betting on horse races, confirming that money lost betting on horses can, for tax purposes, be considered expenses deductible from winnings.FamilyMart and UNY Group Holdings, the holding company of Circle K Sunkus, reach an agreement to merge in September 2016, forming the second biggest convenience store operator by sales in Japan under a single brand name. 2015February — Prince William made his first official visit to Japan, which included visiting Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, to support the areas that had been affected by the 2011 triple disaster. 2015February — The Supreme Court finalizes the death sentence of Tomohiro Kato, a man who was convicted of killing 7 people and wounding 10 people in an indiscriminate rampage in Akihabara, Tokyo, on 8 June 2008. 2016第42届七国集团会议 2016July — Yuriko Koike won the Tokyo gubernatorial election and was elected the 9th Governor of Tokyo Metropolis. 20162016年鸟取地震 2016July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the House of Councillors election for the second time. 20162016年冲绳县议会议员选举 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. 20182018年大阪地震 2018December — 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. 2018August — 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. 2018March — 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. 2018한일 해상 군사 분쟁 20182018年岛根地震 2018October — Toyosu Market has opened as the largest wholesale fish market in the world. It replaced the old Tsukiji fish market. 2018April — 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. 2018July 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. 2018September — 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. 2018March — 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. 2018December — Japan executes two more prisoners, bringing 2018 executions to 15 taking annual total to highest since 2008. 2018June 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. 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. 2019July — Kyoto Animation arson attack: 36 people were killed in one of the deadliest massacres in post-World War II history of Japan. 2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행 2019德仁即位 2019September to 2 November — 2019 Rugby World Cup begins in Japan. 2019May 2019 to 1 January 2020 — The 2019 Emperor's Cup begins. 20192019年山形地震 2019July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wins the House of Councillors election for the third time. 20192019年熊本地震 2019벚꽃을 보는 모임 문제 2019Hokkaido prefectural election 2019Kanagawa 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.	라스베이거스 스트립 총기 난사 사건EN Relations between the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the country tested missiles in various places.EN 禁止核武器条约 Women's MarchEN 뉴욕 트럭 돌진 테러EN Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands.EN United States and the Paris AgreementEN October 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.EN Hurricane 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.EN Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.EN Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power.EN Film producer Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexual harassment in a New York Times expose, marking the beginning of the Me Too movement.EN New York City Subway bombingEN Oroville Dam crisisEN February 14, 2018 – A gunman kills 17 people and injures 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.EN A 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.EN Vote CountEN January 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.EN Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation.EN November 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.EN state visit to ChinaEN 2015Curtis Culwell Center attack 2015Gold King Mine waste water spill 2015attack on Dallas police 2015Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is convicted and sentenced to death for committing the Boston Marathon bombing. 2015Dylann Roof kills 9 people during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. 2015Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik carried out an attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and seriously injuring 22 others. 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. 2016말레르 국립야생보호구역 점거사건 2016Ohio State University attack 20162016年阿拉斯加地震 2016Omar Mateen kills 49 people and injures 53 members of the LGBT community at the Pulse nightclub. 2016Oklahoma earthquake 2016United States presidential election in New Jersey 2016Obama's America (2012) 2016election 201636 people are killed in the Oakland Warehouse Fire. 2018Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore. 20182018年美國選舉 20182018年美国邮包炸弹袭击未遂事件 2018마치 포 아우어 라이브스 20182018年夏威夷地震 2018Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants Stephen Hillenburg and Creative leader of Marvel Comics Stan Lee both die in November. 2018United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal 2018하와이 미사일 경보 20182018年安克雷奇地震 20182018年阿拉斯加灣地震 2018October 27, 2018 - A gunman opens fire on the Tree of Life congregation in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting killing 11 and wounding 6. 2018Women's March 2018Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse 2018November 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. 2018Southern California mudflows 2018North Carolina's 9th congressional district election 2018The entire West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is impeached. 2019코로나19 범유행 2019十二日战争 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. 2019Trump–Ukraine scandal 2019March 11, 2020 – The World Health Organization officially declares COVID-19 a global pandemic. 2019新削减战略武器条约 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. 2019November 4, 2025 – UPS Airlines Flight 2976 crashes near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least 12. 2019April 1, 2026 – Artemis II is launched by NASA, becoming the first crewed mission past low Earth orbit since the Apollo program. 2019January 31, 2025 – Med Jets Flight 056 crashed in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 7 people including everyone on board and one person on the ground. The flight injured at least 22 people. 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. 20192019年里奇克莱斯特地震 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. 2019March 11, 2021 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is passed. 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. 2019November 15, 2021 – The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is signed into law. 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. 2019March 27, 2020 – President Trump signs the CARES Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2019April 30, 2020 – Armed protesters enter the Michigan State Capitol building to demand an end to lockdown measures. 2019August 11, 2025 – President Trump invokes the District of Columbia Home Rule Act using dubious claims about crime in Washington, D.C. to take over the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the District of Columbia National Guard and federal law enforcement to the District. 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. 2019Women'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. 2019Virginia 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. 2019Presidents Day protest 2019March 18, 2020 – President Trump signs the Families First Coronavirus Response Act into law and announces he will invoke the Defense Production Act to improve U.S. medical resources as well as directing the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) to suspend evictions and foreclosures of federal housing until the end of April. 2019Trump–Zelenskyy phone call

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March. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision, removing Park from office.EN

2015한·일 일본군 위안부 협상 타결
201511월 김영삼 전 대통령 서거
201612월 3일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵소추안 발의
20162016年慶州地震
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
2018한일 해상 군사 분쟁
20182018年浦項地震
2018북미정상회담(싱가포르 개최)
20182월 9일 평창 동계올림픽 개최
20184월 27일 판문점 선언(판문점 평화의집 개최)
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.

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）。
2017年九寨沟地震
月1日，“雄安新区”成立。
2017年米林地震
中華人民共和國香港特別行政區第十三屆全國人民代表大會代表選舉
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。
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。
3月17日高雄三民區下水道火警事故。815全臺大停電。
月8日，四川九寨沟地震导致至少25人死亡、数百人受伤。

20152月4日復興航空235號班機空難。纪念中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年大会。8月12日2015年天津港危化品仓库爆炸事故。11月7日两岸领导人会面。12月20日深圳滑坡事故。
2015月，屠呦呦成为首位获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的中国籍科学家。
2015September — 2015 China Victory Day Parade was held on the Tiananmen Square.
2015바셴하이안 폭발 사고
2015China–Australia Free Trade Agreement
2015月17日，暗物质粒子探测卫星（“悟空”）顺利发射升空。
2015月28日，國家發改委、外交部、商務部聯合發布《推动共建丝绸之路经济带和21世纪海上丝绸之路的愿景与行动》白皮书，並首次提出粵港澳大灣區概念。
2015June — 2015–2016 Chinese stock market turbulence started.
2015Aksu colliery attack
2015月1日起，中国全面停止使用死囚器官作为移植供体来源，公民逝世后自愿器官捐献将成为中华人民共和国器官移植使用的唯一渠道。
2015November — Ma Ying-jeou meets with Xi Jinping, the first Cross-Strait leader meeting.
2015月9日起，大规模抓捕中国的人权律师，中华人民共和国公安当局在多达23个省份大规模逮捕、传唤、刑事拘留、带走、失联、约谈了上百位律师、民间维权人士、上访民众及其亲属的事件，部分人士因此下落不明。
2015月7日，习近平、马英九的两岸领导人会面在新加坡举行，是自1949年政治分立以来，双方最高领导人的首次会晤。
2015月12日，天津港发生严重爆炸事故，至少165人死亡、798人受伤，直接经济损失68.66亿元人民币。
2015月，中国大陆爆发股灾。
2015月20日，深圳山體滑坡事故，造成73死4失踪、逾900人被疏散。
2015月1日，湖北荆州发生“东方之星号客轮翻沉事件”，共442人死亡。
2015月起，南方大洪水，至少319人死亡、81人失踪。
2015月11日，“周永康案”，原中共中央政治局常委、政法委书记周永康在庭审中，因受贿罪、一滥用职权罪、故意泄露国家秘密罪，被判处无期徒刑剥夺政治权利终身、没收财产。
20162016年高雄美濃地震
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年香港選舉委員會界別分組選舉
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。
2018中美贸易战爆发。花莲地震。习近平修改宪法废除领导人连任限制。宜蘭普悠瑪列車出軌。
2018March — Xi Jinping removed the term limits of the Presidency.
20182018年花莲地震
2018基因编辑婴儿事件
2018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。
2018하얼빈 호텔 화재
2018月19日-21日，山东寿光市出现洪灾灾害，13人死亡、3人失踪。
2018第十三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议
2018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。
2018月，中国大陆爆发非洲猪瘟疫情。
2018月24日，港珠澳大桥建成通车。
2018月31日，新疆射月沟水库溃坝事件，造成20人遇难、8人失踪。
2018中華民國直轄市長及縣市長選舉
2019December — First case of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan leading into the subsequent pandemic.
2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행
2019元朗襲擊事件
20192019年花蓮地震
2019太子站襲擊事件
20192019年长宁地震
2019Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus conflict
2019Siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
20192020 COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China
20192019年自贡地震
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”。

November — Emperor Akihito announces that he intends to retire and the end of Heisei period on April 30, 2019.EN
October — Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.EN
2017年东京都议会议员选举
October — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the third time.EN
座間九人殺害事件
動物朋友監督替換事件
June — 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.EN

2015July — President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata died of bile duct cancer at the age of 55.
2015February — JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries conduct their first launch of an Information Gathering Satellite with the aid of an H-IIA rocket F-27 from Tanegashima Space Center.
2015April — The Nikkei 225 index reaches 20,006.00 in the first few minutes of trade, passing the 20,000 level for the first time since April 2000.
2015March — Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, has announces that he discovered the Japanese battleship Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by the United States Navy, in the Sibuyan Sea, of the Philippines.
2015March — Hokuriku Shinkansen starts its service between Nagano and Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, cutting travel time between Tokyo and Kanazawa by about 80 minutes to as little as 2 hours and 28 minutes.
2015April — The Government of South Korea lifts the departure ban on a former chief of the Sankei Shimbun's Seoul bureau, who had been barred from leaving the country for eight months following his indictment in October 2014 for defamation of South Korean President Park Geun-hye. The charges were due to an article, posted on a Sankei website, that referred to a rumor in a South Korean publication that Park was seeing a man on the day of the sinking of MV Sewol in April 2014.
2015March — The main keep of Himeji Castle, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site, reopened to the public after a 5-year restoration project. The keep itself is recognized as one of the National Treasures of Japan.
2015April — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Takeshi Onaga, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture for the first time to push ahead with the government plan to relocate a U.S. military base in Futenma to the proposed location around Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, but failed to reach agreement over the relocation.
2015January — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approves a record defence budget with plans to buy surveillance aircraft and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to improve the security of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China.
2015January — Japan–Australia Economic Partnership Agreement enters into force.
2015수상 관저 무인기 추락 사건
2015August — Sendai Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 reactor is the first reactor to be restarted in accordance with the new regulatory requirements established by the Nuclear Regulation Authority following the Fukushima nuclear accident.
2015한·일 일본군 위안부 협상 타결
2015February — Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau (TMPDPSB) arrests Tsutomu Shirosaki, a Japanese Red Army member, for attempted arson associated with a 1986 mortar attack in Indonesia as he arrives at Narita Airport, having been deported from the United States following his January 16 release from prison.
2015January — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration fines Honda a record 70 million dollars for grossly under-reporting fatal accidents and injuries to the government.
2015March — The Supreme Court rejects prosecutors' claims that a 41-year-old man from Osaka Prefecture in Kansai region, who evaded 570 million yen in taxes by failing to declare income from betting on horse races, confirming that money lost betting on horses can, for tax purposes, be considered expenses deductible from winnings.FamilyMart and UNY Group Holdings, the holding company of Circle K Sunkus, reach an agreement to merge in September 2016, forming the second biggest convenience store operator by sales in Japan under a single brand name.
2015February — Prince William made his first official visit to Japan, which included visiting Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, to support the areas that had been affected by the 2011 triple disaster.
2015February — The Supreme Court finalizes the death sentence of Tomohiro Kato, a man who was convicted of killing 7 people and wounding 10 people in an indiscriminate rampage in Akihabara, Tokyo, on 8 June 2008.
2016第42届七国集团会议
2016July — Yuriko Koike won the Tokyo gubernatorial election and was elected the 9th Governor of Tokyo Metropolis.
20162016年鸟取地震
2016July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the House of Councillors election for the second time.
20162016年冲绳县议会议员选举
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.
20182018年大阪地震
2018December — 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.
2018August — 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.
2018March — 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.
2018한일 해상 군사 분쟁
20182018年岛根地震
2018October — Toyosu Market has opened as the largest wholesale fish market in the world. It replaced the old Tsukiji fish market.
2018April — 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.
2018July 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.
2018September — 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.
2018March — 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.
2018December — Japan executes two more prisoners, bringing 2018 executions to 15 taking annual total to highest since 2008.
2018June 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.
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.
2019July — Kyoto Animation arson attack: 36 people were killed in one of the deadliest massacres in post-World War II history of Japan.
2019아시아의 코로나19 범유행
2019德仁即位
2019September to 2 November — 2019 Rugby World Cup begins in Japan.
2019May 2019 to 1 January 2020 — The 2019 Emperor's Cup begins.
20192019年山形地震
2019July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wins the House of Councillors election for the third time.
20192019年熊本地震
2019벚꽃을 보는 모임 문제
2019Hokkaido prefectural election
2019Kanagawa 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.

라스베이거스 스트립 총기 난사 사건EN
Relations between the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the country tested missiles in various places.EN
禁止核武器条约
Women's MarchEN
뉴욕 트럭 돌진 테러EN
Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands.EN
United States and the Paris AgreementEN
October 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.EN
Hurricane 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.EN
Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.EN
Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power.EN
Film producer Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexual harassment in a New York Times expose, marking the beginning of the Me Too movement.EN
New York City Subway bombingEN
Oroville Dam crisisEN
February 14, 2018 – A gunman kills 17 people and injures 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.EN
A 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.EN
Vote CountEN
January 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.EN
Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation.EN
November 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.EN
state visit to ChinaEN

2015Curtis Culwell Center attack
2015Gold King Mine waste water spill
2015attack on Dallas police
2015Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is convicted and sentenced to death for committing the Boston Marathon bombing.
2015Dylann Roof kills 9 people during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
2015Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik carried out an attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and seriously injuring 22 others.
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.
2016말레르 국립야생보호구역 점거사건
2016Ohio State University attack
20162016年阿拉斯加地震
2016Omar Mateen kills 49 people and injures 53 members of the LGBT community at the Pulse nightclub.
2016Oklahoma earthquake
2016United States presidential election in New Jersey
2016Obama's America (2012)
2016election
201636 people are killed in the Oakland Warehouse Fire.
2018Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
20182018年美國選舉
20182018年美国邮包炸弹袭击未遂事件
2018마치 포 아우어 라이브스
20182018年夏威夷地震
2018Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants Stephen Hillenburg and Creative leader of Marvel Comics Stan Lee both die in November.
2018United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal
2018하와이 미사일 경보
20182018年安克雷奇地震
20182018年阿拉斯加灣地震
2018October 27, 2018 - A gunman opens fire on the Tree of Life congregation in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting killing 11 and wounding 6.
2018Women's March
2018Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse
2018November 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.
2018Southern California mudflows
2018North Carolina's 9th congressional district election
2018The entire West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is impeached.
2019코로나19 범유행
2019十二日战争
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.
2019Trump–Ukraine scandal
2019March 11, 2020 – The World Health Organization officially declares COVID-19 a global pandemic.
2019新削减战略武器条约
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.
2019November 4, 2025 – UPS Airlines Flight 2976 crashes near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least 12.
2019April 1, 2026 – Artemis II is launched by NASA, becoming the first crewed mission past low Earth orbit since the Apollo program.
2019January 31, 2025 – Med Jets Flight 056 crashed in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 7 people including everyone on board and one person on the ground. The flight injured at least 22 people.
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.
20192019年里奇克莱斯特地震
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.
2019March 11, 2021 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is passed.
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.
2019November 15, 2021 – The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is signed into law.
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.
2019March 27, 2020 – President Trump signs the CARES Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019April 30, 2020 – Armed protesters enter the Michigan State Capitol building to demand an end to lockdown measures.
2019August 11, 2025 – President Trump invokes the District of Columbia Home Rule Act using dubious claims about crime in Washington, D.C. to take over the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the District of Columbia National Guard and federal law enforcement to the District.
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.
2019Women'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.
2019Virginia 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.
2019Presidents Day protest
2019March 18, 2020 – President Trump signs the Families First Coronavirus Response Act into law and announces he will invoke the Defense Production Act to improve U.S. medical resources as well as directing the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) to suspend evictions and foreclosures of federal housing until the end of April.
2019Trump–Zelenskyy phone call