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2019 Spanish local elections

2019 Spanish municipal elections (Elecciones municipales de España de 2019), held 26 May 2019 in 8,114 municipalities: PSOE won 22,329 of 67,121 councillors (29.26%), PP took Madrid city hall with Cs and VOX support, ending the municipalist 'cities of change' era.

2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings

The 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings were coordinated Islamic State-inspired suicide attacks on 21 April 2019 by National Thowheeth Jama'ath and JMI against three churches and three hotels, killing over 260 people despite ignored foreign intelligence warnings, leading to commissions, Supreme Court compensation orders, and later convictions.

2019 Sri Lankan presidential election

The 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election, also called the eighth presidential election, held 16 November 2019; Gotabaya Rajapaksa won 52.25% over Sajith Premadasa after the Easter Sunday attacks, first poll with no sitting president, PM, or opposition leader contesting.

2019 Stanley Cup Finals

2019 Stanley Cup Finals: the St. Louis Blues beat the Boston Bruins 4-3, winning Game 7 4-1 on June 12, 2019 for their first Cup, ending a 52-year drought; O'Reilly won the Conn Smythe.

2019 Stanley Cup playoffs

The 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs were the NHL postseason won by the St. Louis Blues, who beat the Boston Bruins in seven games for their first championship.

2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting

May 7, 2019 school shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a Colorado K-12 charter school; students Devon Erickson and Alec McKinney killed Kendrick Castillo and wounded eight; trials, lawsuits, and memorials followed.

2019 Summer Universiade

2019 Summer Universiade (Napoli 2019, 30th Summer Universiade), FISU student games in Naples, Italy, 3-14 July 2019; cruise-ship village, 5,971 athletes from 112 countries, Japan and Russia joint top with Japan winning 33 golds.

2019 Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute

The 2019 Supreme Court of India verdict (9 November 2019) on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case: a unanimous five-judge bench led by CJI Ranjan Gogoi awarded 2.77 acres in Ayodhya for a Ram temple and 5 acres at Dhannipur for a mosque; the temple was consecrated in January 2024 while the mosque remains unbuilt.

2019 Swiss federal election

2019 Swiss federal election (20 October 2019): "green wave" election in which the Greens rose to 13.2% and 28 National Council seats and the GLP to 7.8%, while the SVP, SP, FDP and CVP all lost ground; turnout 45.1%, government unchanged.

2019 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

2019 term opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court: decisions of October Term 2019 (Oct 7, 2019-Oct 4, 2020), including Bostock, McGirt, Ramos, Trump v. Vance, and Seila Law, decided amid COVID-19 remote arguments.

2019 Thai general election

The 2019 Thai general election, held 24 March 2019 under the military-drafted 2017 Constitution, was Thailand's first election since 2011. Palang Pracharat led the vote, Pheu Thai won most seats, and junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha stayed prime minister via a 19-party coalition and the appointed 250-seat Senate.

2019 Tour de France

2019 Tour de France, 106th edition, 6–28 July 2019, Brussels to Paris. Egan Bernal (Team Ineos) became the first Colombian winner, beating teammate Geraint Thomas by 1:11 after a storm-shortened stage 19.

2019 Trump–Zelenskyy phone call

July 25, 2019 call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which Trump requested investigations of the Bidens, Crowdstrike, and the 2016 election, triggering a whistleblower complaint and Trump's first impeachment.

2019 Tunisian presidential election

The 2019 Tunisian presidential election, also called Tunisia's early presidential election, was a two-round vote (September 15 and October 13, 2019) triggered by President Essebsi's death, won by independent Kais Saied with about 73% over jailed media magnate Nabil Karoui.

2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria

Operation Peace Spring: Turkey's 9 October 2019 cross-border offensive with the Syrian National Army against the Kurdish-led SDF in north-east Syria, ending in US and Russian-Turkish ceasefires, mass displacement, and disputed legality.

2019 UEFA Champions League final

2019 UEFA Champions League final: Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 on 1 June 2019 at Madrid's Estadio Metropolitano, Salah penalty and Origi goal, winning a sixth European Cup.

2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship

The 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was an under-17 football tournament held in Ireland, won by the Netherlands, who beat Italy 4-2 in the final.

2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, co-hosted by Italy and San Marino, 16-30 June 2019; Spain beat Germany 2-1 in the Udine final for a record-equalling fifth title, with Waldschmidt top scorer on 7 goals.

2019 UEFA Nations League Finals

2019 UEFA Nations League Finals: inaugural knockout finals, 5-9 June 2019 in Portugal (Porto, Guimarães). Portugal beat Netherlands 1-0 (Guedes) to win the first title; England took third on penalties.

2019 UEFA Regions' Cup

2019 UEFA Regions' Cup, 11th edition of UEFA's amateur regional championship, held 18-26 June 2019 in Bavaria, Germany; Dolnośląski Region of Poland beat hosts Bavaria 3-2 in the Burghausen final for a record-equalling second title.

2019 UEFA Super Cup

2019 UEFA Super Cup: Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-2 (5-4 penalties) on 14 August 2019 at Beşiktaş Park, Istanbul, in the first all-English Super Cup, refereed by Stéphanie Frappart; Liverpool's fourth title.

2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

The 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship was held in Scotland and won by France, who beat Germany 2-1 in the final at Paisley for their fifth title.

2019 Uganda floods

The 2019 Uganda floods were floods and landslides that struck eastern and western Uganda in May and June and again from October to December, killing 38 people.

2019 UK Championship

The 2019 UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament at the Barbican Centre in York, won by China's Ding Junhui, who beat Stephen Maguire 10–6 in the final.

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election

Snap election to Ukraine's 450-seat Verkhovna Rada on 21 July 2019, after Zelensky's decree No. 303/2019 dissolved parliament. Servant of the People won 254 of 424 seats, the first single-party majority in independent Ukraine.

2019 Ukrainian presidential election

The 2019 Ukrainian presidential election, held in two rounds on 31 March and 21 April 2019, elected comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy over incumbent Petro Poroshenko with 73.22 percent.

2019 United Kingdom general election

2019 UK general election, held 12 December 2019, first December election since 1923. Boris Johnson's Conservatives won 365 seats (43.6%) on "Get Brexit Done"; Labour fell to 202 seats (32.1%), its worst result since 1935.

2019 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

The 2019 UK general election in Scotland (12 December 2019): SNP won 48 of 59 seats on 45.0% vote, reversing 2017 losses; Conservatives took 6 seats, Labour 1, Liberal Democrats 4; turnout 68.1%, highest of any UK country; result framed as independence referendum mandate.

2019 United Kingdom local elections

The 2019 United Kingdom local elections were held on 2 May 2019 across 248 English councils and all 11 Northern Ireland councils, with both major parties losing hundreds of seats.

2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP25, was a UN climate summit held in Madrid, Spain, in December 2019 under Chile's presidency, chaired by Carolina Schmidt.