What is 2019?
{{Year nav|2019}} {{C18 year in topic}} '''2019''' ([[Roman numerals|MMXIX]]) was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 2019th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|2019}}. == Events == * [[January 1]] – All works published in [[1923]], other than sound recordings, entered the [[public domain]] in the [[United States]]. This was the first automatic extension of the public domain in the U.S. since the [[1998]] [[Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act]]. (Works published before 1923 were already in the public domain.) ** [[Jair Bolsonaro]] began his four-year term as [[President of Brazil]]. ** Unmanned space probe ''[[New Horizons]]'' makes a close approach of the [[Kuiper belt]] object (KBO) [[(486958) 2014 MU69|{{mp|2014 MU|69}}]] at 05:33 UTC. ** [[Qatar]] withdrew from [[OPEC]]. ** [[Same-sex marriage]] became legal in [[Austria]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/austria-same-sex-couples-allowed-to-get-married-starting-january-2019/|title=Austria: Same-Sex Couples Allowed to Get Married Starting January 2019|work=[[Library of Congress]]|date=12 December 2017|access-date=28 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125120112/http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/austria-same-sex-couples-allowed-to-get-married-starting-january-2019/|archive-date=25 January 2018}}</ref> * [[January 15]]-[[January 16]] — [[Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack]] * [[January 18]] — A [[pipeline]] [[explosion]] in [[Tlahuelilpan]], [[Mexico]] killed 96 people and 48 are injured. * [[January 19]] – A magnitude 6.7 [[earthquake]] hits [[Coquimbo]], [[Chile]]. Two people were killed, and 200,000 others were left without power. * [[January 27]] — [[2019 Jolo Cathedral bombings]] * [[February 1]] — [[President of the United States]] [[Donald Trump]] said the U.S. will leave the [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]]. * [[February 12]] — The [[North Macedonia|Republic of Macedonia]]