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2019
The year 2019: second warmest year on record at 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels; marked by Trump's impeachment, worldwide protests, Brexit resolution under Boris Johnson, and the US women's fourth World Cup title.
2019 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 87th running held 15–16 June, was won by the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid of Buemi, Alonso, and Nakajima.
2019 AFC Asian Cup
2019 AFC Asian Cup, 17th edition held in UAE from 5 January to 1 February 2019, first 24-team Asian Cup. Qatar won its first title, beating Japan 3-1 in the final at Zayed Sports City; Almoez Ali scored a record 9 goals.
2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification
The 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification, run by the Asian Football Confederation from 2015 to 2018, decided the 24 teams at the 2019 Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.
2019 AFC Beach Soccer Championship
The 2019 AFC Beach Soccer Championship, held in Pattaya, Thailand, 7–17 March, was Asia's qualifier for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Paraguay 2019. Japan beat UAE 3-1 on penalties in the final for a third Asian title; Oman took the third berth.
2019 AFC Champions League
2019 AFC Champions League, AFC's Asian club football tournament won by Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal SFC, beating Japan's Urawa Red Diamonds 3-0 on aggregate in the November 2019 two-legged final, Al Hilal's first title since 2000.
2019 AFC Cup
The 2019 AFC Cup was the 16th edition of Asia's second-tier club competition, with 43 clubs from 26 nations; Lebanon's Al Ahed FC won it.
2019 AFL draft
The 2019 AFL draft, held in Melbourne on November 27 and 28, 2019, saw Gold Coast select midfielders Matt Rowell and Noah Anderson with the first two picks.
2019 AFL season
2019 AFL season, the league's 123rd, won by Richmond over GWS Giants by 89 points in the Grand Final; Geelong minor premier, Nat Fyfe Brownlow, Jeremy Cameron Coleman, record 6.95m home-and-away attendance.
2019 Africa Cup of Nations
The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2019), the 32nd edition hosted by Egypt, was the first with 24 teams and the first played in June-July; Algeria beat Senegal in the Cairo final for its second title.
2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification: CAF qualifiers deciding 23 of 24 teams for Egypt 2019, the first 24-team AFCON; Cameroon was stripped as host, with Madagascar, Mauritania, and Burundi debuting.
2019 Alberta general election
The 2019 Alberta general election, held April 16, 2019, saw Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party win a landslide majority of 63 seats, ousting Rachel Notley's NDP.
2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires
2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires: August 2019 fire surge in the Brazilian Amazon, most active since 2010, driven by recent deforestation rather than drought; smoke darkened São Paulo; Bolsonaro deployed troops under the August 23 GLOA decree.
2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election was held on April 11, 2019, to form the 15th assembly. The YSRCP won 151 seats, ending the TDP government.
2019 anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动)
The 2019 anti-extradition bill protests (反对逃犯条例修订草案运动) were mass demonstrations in Hong Kong against a proposed Fugitive Offenders amendment allowing extraditions to mainland China; Carrie Lam withdrew it in September 2019.
2019 Argentine general election
2019 Argentine general election (27 October 2019): Alberto Fernández of Frente de Todos beat incumbent Mauricio Macri 48.1%–40.4%, winning outright after an unpredicted 16-point PASO primary upset; Peronists returned to power with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as vice president.
2019 Ashes series
2019 Ashes series (Specsavers Ashes): five Tests in England, 1 August to 16 September 2019, at Edgbaston, Lord's, Headingley, Old Trafford and The Oval. Series drawn 2-2; Australia retained the Ashes; first series of the inaugural ICC World Test Championship.
2019 Atlantic hurricane season
The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season was an above-normal season with 18 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes, headlined by Hurricane Dorian's devastation of The Bahamas.
2019 ATP Finals
The 2019 ATP Finals, played at The O2 Arena in London, was the year-end men's tennis championship won by Stefanos Tsitsipas, who defeated Dominic Thiem in three sets.
2019 ATP Tour
2019 ATP Tour: men's professional tennis season of 63 tournaments in 31 countries plus four Grand Slams; Nadal year-end No. 1 (fifth time, oldest ever), Djokovic won Australian Open and Wimbledon, Nadal took Roland Garros and US Open, Tsitsipas won the ATP Finals.
2019 Auckland mayoral election
The 2019 Auckland mayoral election (12 October 2019) re-elected independent incumbent Phil Goff with 180,146 final votes over John Tamihere (80,903) under STV, with 35.26% turnout of 1,065,383 electors.
2019 Australian federal election
2019 Australian federal election (18 May 2019): Morrison's Liberal-National Coalition unexpectedly re-elected over Shorten's Labor, 51.5-48.5% two-party preferred, despite all polls predicting a Labor win; key issues were economy, health, climate.
2019 Australian Grand Prix
2019 Australian Grand Prix, Formula 1 season opener at Albert Park, Melbourne, 17 March 2019. Valtteri Bottas won from second on the grid ahead of Hamilton and Verstappen, giving Honda its first podium since 2008.
2019 Australian Open
2019 Australian Open, Melbourne Park, 14-27 January 2019: Djokovic beat Nadal for a record seventh men's title, Osaka won her first AO, attendance record 796,435, 10-point final-set tiebreak and Heat Stress Scale debuted.
2019 Austrian legislative election
2019 Austrian legislative election (Nationalratswahl), snap election of 29 September 2019 after the Ibiza affair; ÖVP won 37.5% and 71 of 183 seats, then formed Austria's first ÖVP-Green coalition in January 2020.
2019 Bærum murder and mosque attack
The 2019 Bærum murder and mosque attack: on 10 August 2019 far-right extremist Philip Manshaus killed his stepsister Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen and attacked the Al-Noor mosque in Bærum, Norway, inspired by Christchurch; sentenced to 21 years, later retried.
2019 Balakot airstrike
The 2019 Balakot airstrike, Operation Bandar, was an Indian Air Force attack on a Jaish-e-Mohammed camp at Balakot, Pakistan, in February 2019, after the Pulwama bombing.
2019 Belfast City Council election
2019 Belfast City Council election, held 2 May 2019, elected 60 councillors by STV across 10 district electoral areas. Sinn Féin stayed largest with 18 seats, DUP 15, Alliance 10; UUP lost five of seven seats while Greens and Alliance gained.
2019 Belgian federal election
The 2019 Belgian federal election (26 May 2019) elected the 150-seat House of Representatives alongside regional and European elections. N-VA stayed largest with 25 seats, Vlaams Belang surged to 18, and the De Croo seven-party Vivaldi government formed only after 494 days.
2019 Billboard Music Awards
The 2019 Billboard Music Awards, held May 1, 2019 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and hosted by Kelly Clarkson on NBC, saw Drake win 12 awards including Top Artist, reaching a record 27 career BBMA wins; Cardi B led nominations with 21.