- July 3
- An airstrike by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army hits the Tajoura Detention Center outside Tripoli, Libya, while hundreds of people are inside the facility, killing at least 53 of them and injuring 130 others. [1368]
- July 4
- British naval forces impound an Iranian oil tanker passing Gibraltar, allegedly bound for Syria. [1522.37]
- July 5
- Head of BMW, Harald Krüger, announces he will step down. [1521.63]
- July 6
- Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fires Murat Cetinkaya, head of the central bank. [1521.69]
- July 7
- African Continental Free Trade Area is launched, with 54 members. [1380.7]
- Germany's Deutsche Bank announces it is abandoning global stock trading. [1380.11]
- General elections in Italy. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of New Democracy, is new prime minister. [1521.50]
- July 9
- Mexico finance minister Carlos Urzúa resigns. [1521.31]
- July 10
- The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum. [1368]
- July 12
- A car bomb and a gun attack kill at least 26 people, including two prominent journalists and nine foreigners, in Kismayo, Somalia. Islamist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility. [1368]
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- Turkey acquires Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system. [1522.42]
- July 13
- Hurricane Barry strikes the Gulf Coast, killing one and causing over US$500 million in damages. [1368]
- July 16
- The European Parliament elects Ursula von der Leyen as the new President of the European Commission. [1368]
- July 17
- Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, which became the biggest supplier of drugs to the U.S., is sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. [1368]
- The World Health Organization declares the Kivu Ebola epidemic to be a public health emergency of international concern. [1368]
- July 18
- 36 people are killed and more than 30 others injured after an arson attack at an animation company in Kyoto, Japan. [1368]
- July 19
- The Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. [1368] [1522.37]
- Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigns. [1522.42]
- July 21
- General elections in Ukraine. Servant of the People party under Volodymyr Zelensky wins presidency with 43 percent of vote and 254 of 424 members of parliament, to 13 percent for For Life, 8 percent for Petro Poroshenko, 8 percent for Yulia Tymoshenko, and 5 percent for Svyartoslav Vakarchuk. [1522.41]
- A mob of over 100 suspected triad members dressed in white and armed with batons attack commuters indiscriminately at MTR Yuen Long station in Hong Kong, injuring 45. [1368]
- July 24
- Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May. [1368]
- July 26
- (to August 11) The 2019 Pan American Games are held in Lima, Peru. [1368]
- July 30
- India bans triple talaq (Islamic divorce). [1368]
- August 1
- Danish polar research institution Polar Portal reports a large spike in Greenland ice loss, with 11 billion tons melted in one day and 197 gigatonnes during the month of July. [1368]
- August 2
- The United States officially withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty established with Russia in 1987. [1368]
- Japan announces the removal of South Korea from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on August 28. [1368]
- August 3
- A mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States, leaves 23 people dead and 23 others injured. [1368]
- August 4
- Ten people, including the perpetrator, are killed and 27 others injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, United States. [1368]
- A car crashes into three other cars causing an explosion outside the National Cancer Institute Egypt in Cairo, Egypt, killing at least 20 people and injuring 47 others. [1368]
- August 5
- India revokes the part of its constitution that gives Indian-administered Kashmir special status. [1368]
- Hong Kong is hit by its first general strike since 1967. [1368]
- August 7
- The Singapore Convention on Mediation, also known as the UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, comes into effect with 46 countries ratifying it. States that have ratified the treaty will have to ensure that international commercial settlement agreements are enforced by their courts. [1368]
- August 10
- A fuel tanker truck explodes in Morogoro, Tanzania, killing at least 89 people and injuring dozens more. [1368]
- 32 are killed and 1,000,000 evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. [1368]
- (to August 25) A number of forest fires break out in the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote. The fires on the island of Gran Canaria are the most severe, resulting in the loss of large areas of the island's forests and leading to the evacuation of thousands of residents from a number of towns and villages. [1368]
- August 11
- At least 114 people, including 57 in Kerala, 30 in Karnataka and 27 in Maharashtra, are reported to have died in monsoon-related floods in India. At least 227 die across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. [1368]
- August 12
- Hong Kong International Airport is closed due to protests. [1368]
- South Korea announces the removal of Japan from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on September 18. [1368]
- August 14
- The Dow Jones plunges more than 500 points, due to concerns over the yield curve inversion. [1368]
- August 15
- The European Central Bank shuts down PNB Banka after ruling it had become insolvent; this bank, previously called Norvik Banka, was Latvia's sixth-largest lender. [1368]
- August 21
- Giuseppe Conte offers his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy in order to avoid a no-confidence motion. [1368]
- September 1
- Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on the Bahamas, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph. 43 deaths are reported. [1368]
- September 2
- 34 people are killed following a fire and subsequent sinking of a dive boat near Santa Cruz Island, California, United States. It is the worst maritime disaster in California in more than 150 years. [1368]
- Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari sets herself on fire after being arrested for attending a soccer game in Iran. She dies a week later. [1368]
- September 4
- Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces the official withdrawal of the controversial Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019, and setting up of an independent study to probe social and economic inequality within the territory. [1368]
- September 6
- Chandrayaan-2, India's second lunar probe, in lunar orbit, deploys lander Vikram which crashes into the surface of the moon. [1368]
- September 10
- The Parliament of the United Kingdom is prorogued amid unprecedented protests from opposition MPs. [1368]
- September 11
- Astronomers announce the detection of water in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b, the first such discovery for an exoplanet in the habitable zone around a star. [1368]
- September 14
- Two Saudi Aramco oil refineries in Abqaiq and Khurais, Saudi Arabia, are attacked by drones, resulting in fires. Houthi militants claim responsibility, saying that they used ten drones for the attack. [1368]
- September 16
- A gas explosion in Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia sets off a fire in a bioweapons plant that houses viruses including smallpox, ebola and anthrax. [1368]
- September 20
- (to November 2) The 2019 Rugby Union World Cup is held in Japan; the South Africa Springboks defeat the England national rugby union team 32-12. [1368]
- September 21
- U.S. President Donald Trump approves deployment of several hundred troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates following the September 14 attack on Saudi oil refineries. [1368]
- September 23
- One of the largest and oldest travel firms, Thomas Cook, goes bankrupt, stranding 600,000 tourists worldwide. [1368]
- Russia formally adopts the Paris climate agreement. [1368]
- September 24
- U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announces the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. [1368] [1373.11]
- September 26
- Death of Jacques Chirac at age 86; 84th Prime Minister and 22nd President of France (born 1932). [1368] [1372.82]
- October 1
- The Nanfang'ao Bridge, the only steel single-arch bridge in Taiwan, collapses, killing six people and injuring more than twenty others. [1368]
- October 2
- 25 soldiers are killed and 60 missing following attacks on two army camps in Boulkessi and Mondoro, Mali. [1368]
- October 3
- Islamist Mickaël Harpon from Martinique stabs five officers at the central police headquarters in Paris, France, killing four of them. The attacker, shot dead by other officers, was an administrative intelligence employee at the station. [1368] [1614.55]
- October 4
- Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the Chief Executive in Council invokes the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, banning the face mask in public gatherings with immediate effect. [1368]
- October 6
- US President Donald Trump orders US troops out of north-eastern Syria. [1603.21]
- General election in Portugal. Socialist party with prime minister António Costa receives 36% of votes and 106 seats in parliament. [1614.55]
- October 8
- The Government of Ecuador, headed by President Lenín Moreno, moves to Guayaquil as the Carondelet Palace in Quito is overtaken by protesters. [1368]
- October 9
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey announces a military invasion of north-eastern Syria, targeting the SDF and other Kurdish militias. [1368] [1603.21] [1614.49]
- October 10
- Swedish Academy awards Nobel Prize in literature for 2018 to Olga Tokarczuk of Poland, and for 2019 to Peter Handke of Austria. [1603.51]
- October 12
- Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, the biggest storm to hit the region in decades, with over seven million people urged to evacuate. [1368]
- October 13
- Poland parliament elections. Law and Justice party wins 235 of 460 seats. [1603.51]
- Turkey parliament election: new president is Kais Saied. [1603.48]
- October 14
- The Supreme Court of Spain sentences nine Catalan independence movement leaders to 9 to 13 years of prison for sedition and misuse of public funds. [1368]
- October 17
- In Culiacón, Mexico, 30 government soldiers capture Ovidio Guzmán López, son of "El Chapo". But organized crime family business re-inforcements arrive and overwhelm government forces. López is released. 14 people are killed. [1604.30]
- October 19
- An estimated one million people march through London in a protest organised by People's Vote, to demand a second referendum on Brexit. [1368]
- October 21
- Thailand king Maha Vajiralongkorn strips all titles and honors from official mistress royal noble consort Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, for "ingratitude, misbehaviour, and disloyalty". [1604.34]
- October 23
- The bodies of 39 people are found in a truck container in Essex, England. A 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland is arrested on suspicion of murder. [1368] [1604.52]
- October 24
- General election in Canada. Liberal party wins 157 seats in parliament with prime minister Justin Trudeau, Conservatives get 121 seats, Bloc Québécois gets 32, New Democrats get 24. [1604.29]
- October 25
- Tourists visit the summit of Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) for the last time, as a ban on climbing the famous rock in Australia's Northern Territory comes into effect. [1368]
- October 26
- Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi AKA Ibrahim Awad by suicide bomb at age 48; leader of Islamic State. [1548.82]
- October 27
- U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a U.S. special forces operation. It was reported that al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest after being chased into a tunnel. [1368]
- Presidential election in Argentina won by Alberto Fernández with 48 percent of votes, to incumbent Mauricio Macri with 40 percent. [1548.30]
- October 29
- Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon resigns. [1548.41]
- October 30
- An earthquake of 6.6 Mw rocks the Philippine island of Mindanao. [1368]
- Social media website Twitter bans all political advertising worldwide. [1368]
- October 31
- Heavy rain and flooding leave 3 dead and 200,000 people homeless in Beledweyne, Somalia. [1368]
- A fire destroys much of the 500-year-old Japanese Shuri Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1368]
- A train catches fire near Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan. The blaze, sparked by gas used by passengers cooking on board, kills at least 74 people. [1368]
- November 4
- The United States formally begins process to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. [1368]
- Nine Americans are killed when Mexican gang members open fire on their vehicles while driving to a wedding about 110 kilometres (70 mi) south of the Mexico-United States border. [1368]
- November 6
- At least 37 people are killed and 60 others injured when gunmen attack a Canadian gold mining company convoy on a road in Burkina Faso. [1368]
- French helicopter crash in Mali kills 13 French soldiers. [1564.51]
- November 7
- The International Criminal Court sentences former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity. [1368]
- November 9
- The Supreme Court of India awards a holy site in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh to Hindus, rejecting a Muslim claim. [1368]
- Cyclone Bulbul kills seven in West Bengal, India and seven in Bangladesh. 2,000,000 people are evacuated. [1368]
- November 10
- Bolivia's President Evo Morales resigns and flees to Mexico. [1547.14]
- November 11
- A transit of Mercury occurs. [1368]
- November 12
- Disney launches the Disney+ video streaming service in the US, Canada, and the Netherlands. Cost is $6.99 per month. (10 million people sign up on first day.) [1547.60]
- November 13
- In London, England, would-be thieves attempt to steal two Rembrandt paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, but are stopped by police. [1570.73]
- November 14
- Italy declares a state of emergency in Venice following record flooding. [1368]
- November 19
- General election in Spain: Socialists 120, People's Party 89, Vox 52, Podemos 35, Ciudadanos 10, others 10. [1547.48]
- Google enters the video game market with the launch of Stadia. [1368]
- November 21
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. [1368]
- November 23
- The last known Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia dies. [1368]
- An independence referendum begins in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Voters overwhelmingly choose independence. [1368]
- November 24
- A plane crashes shortly after takeoff in a densely populated area of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all 19 people on board and at least 10 more on the ground. [1368]
- November 25
- In Dresden, Germany, thieves break into the Green Vault museum's jewel room and steal about 100 pieces, worth millions of euros. [1570.73]
- November 26
- 51 people are killed and around 2,000 others injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Albania. The earthquake is the strongest to hit Albania in more than 40 years. [1368]
- November 27
- The U.S. Government passes the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. [1368]
- November 30
- 22 people (two civilians, four police officers and 16 drug dealers) are killed in a shootout in Villa Unión, Coahuila, Mexico, the largest such crime in the country's history. [1368]
- (to December 11) The 2019 Southeast Asian Games are held in the Philippines. [1368]
- December 1
- Port Everglades, Florida, sets a new world record for number of ship passengers in and out of the port in a single day: 55,964. [339]
- Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of Malta announces his resignation. [1564.51]
- December 2
- Typhoon Kammuri hits the Philippines, causing the evacuation of 200,000 people. [1368]
- (to December 13) The 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place in Madrid, Spain. [1368]
- December 3
- Google founders Serget Brin and Larry Page steo down as president and chief executive, respectively, of Alphabet. [1564.64]
- December 8
- A fire at a factory in Delhi, India, kills 43 people and injures at least 50 others. [1368]
- December 9
- A volcano erupts on White Island in New Zealand, killing 20 people and injuring 27 others. [1368]
- A Chilean military transport aircraft crashes while en route to Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva in Antarctica, killing all 38 people on board. [1368]
- The World Anti-Doping Agency votes unanimously to ban Russia from major international sport events for four years for doping offences, meaning it will be excluded from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. [1368] [1600.45]
- December 10
- Sanna Marin, at the age of 34, becomes the world's youngest serving prime minister after being selected to lead Finland's Social Democratic Party. [1368]
- December 17
- Shandong, China's first fully domestically-built aircraft carrier, enters naval service. [1368]
- December 18
- The U.S. House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Trump, making him the third president to be impeached in the nation's history. [1368]
- The CHEOPS space telescope, whose mission is to study the formation of extrasolar planets and determine their precise radius, likely density and internal structure, is launched. [1368]
- December 19
- Libya's Government of National Accord activates a cooperation accord with Turkey, allowing for a potential Turkish military intervention in the Second Libyan Civil War. [1368]
- A locust plague devastates 173,000 acres (70,000 hectares) of crop and grazing land in Ethiopia and Somalia. [1368]
- December 20
- The United States founds the United States Space Force, a branch of the United States Air Force, dedicated to space warfare. [1368] [1459.28]
- December 23
- 28 people are killed and 13 others injured after a bus plunges into a ravine on a winding road in South Sumatra. [1368]
- December 28
- A truck bomb attributed to al-Shabaab kills at least 78 and wounds 125 in Mogadishu, Somalia. [1368]
- December 31
- The People's Republic of China informs the World Health Organization of an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the ninth most populous Chinese city. [1368] [1639.33]
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