2019
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Events edit
- January 1 - Jair Bolsonaro is elected President of Brazil, succeeding Michel Temer.
- January 10 - Jayme Closs escapes from captivity after 88 days.
- January 22 - Joe Exotic is sentenced to 22 years in prison for attempted murder and felony animal abuse.
- January 24 - Joseph Kabila steps down as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- January 29 - Actor Jussie Smollett claims to have been a victim of an attempted lynching, later revealed to be a racial hoax staged as part of a publicity stunt.
- February 6 - Austin Jones' channel was terminated
- February 13 - Alberto Fujimori's pardon is annulled, forcing him to serve out the remainder of his original 25-year prison sentence.
- February 13 - Rappler co-founder and CEO Maria Ressa was arrested for cyber-libel under the Philippine Anti-Cybercrime Law.
- February 15 - Gary Montez Martin kills six people and injures six others before committing suicide in a mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois.
- March 13 - The Suzano school shooting is carried out at the Professor Raul Brasil State School in the Brazilian municipality of Suzano when Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and Luiz Henrique de Castro shoot and kill 7 people and injure 11 others.
- March 15 - 51 Muslim worshippers are killed in a mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, by alt-right supporter Brenton Tarrant.
- March 21 - Former President of Brazil Michel Temer is arrested on charges of corruption.
- March 23 - ISIL's last remaining territory in Syria is liberated by the Syrian military.
- March 24 - A mosque is set on fire in Escondido, California. No suspect was found, but Poway synagogue shooter John T. Earnest claims to be responsible for the arson.
- April 11 - Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan, is deposed. The National Congress Party is subsequently banned.
- April 21 - A group of Islamic terrorists stages a series of bombings across Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 259 people.
- April 27 - John T. Earnest attacks a synagogue in Poway, California, injuring 3 and killing 1.
- April 30 - UNC Charlotte shooting
- May 7 - STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting
- May 24 - Jake Patterson is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without parole for the murders of James and Denise Closs, plus an additional 40 years for kidnapping Jayme Closs.
- May 31 - DeWayne Craddock fatally shoots twelve people at Virginia Beach.
- June 3 - Janjaweed/RSF militiamen attack a protest camp in Khartoum, leaving hundreds dead.
- June 17 - Bryan Isaack Clyde attempts to attack a Dallas, Texas federal courthouse, but fails and dies.
- June 18 - President Donald Trump announces his re-election campaign for a second term.
- June 28 - James Alex Fields Jr. is sentenced to life in prison for murdering protester Heather Heyer after the Unite the Right rally in 2017.
- July 6 - Jeffrey Epstein is arrested on charges of sex trafficking of minors.
- July 10 - The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the ruling military junta of Thailand since 2014, dissolves itself. Its leader, Prayuth Chan-o-cha, remains in power as Prime Minister of Thailand.
- July 17 - Drug cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is sentenced to life imprisonment in the US.
- July 18 - Arson attack in Japan by Shinji Aoba, resulting in 35 deaths.
- July 28 - Santino William Legan attacks the Gilroy Garlic Festival, killing three attendees before committing suicide.
- August 1 - RENAMO signs a peace agreement with the government of Mozambique, ending their six-year insurgency.
- August 3 - Patrick Crusius kills 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso.
- August 4 - Connor Betts kills nine people at Ned Peppers Bar in Dayton, Ohio, before being killed by police.
- August 5 - Narendra Modi orders the special status of Jammu and Kashmir as a semi-autonomous region to be revoked.
- August 10 - Bærum mosque shooting
- August 10 - Jeffrey Epstein is found dead inside his prison cell. Though his death is officially ruled a suicide, many believe that he was actually murdered.
- August 17 - The Proud Boys host the End Domestic Terrorism rally in Portland, Oregon in protest of Antifa.
- August 30 - Islamic terrorist Anouar Haddouchi is captured in Syria.
- August 30 - Elijah McClain is killed by Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt and Randy Roedema.
- August 31 - Midland-Odessa shooting
- September 5 - Melinda Loveless is released from prison after spending 28 years incarcerated.
- October 2 - Amber Guyger is sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of Botham Jean.
- October 9 - Halle synagogue shooting
- October 10 - End of the Sudanese Revolution.
- October 17 - Sinaloa Cartel gunmen rescue high-ranking member Ovidio Guzmán López in Culiacan, Sinaloa. During the ensuing clashes, 14 die.
- October 23 - Chan Tong-kai is released from prison.
- October 27 - ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi commits suicide by detonating an explosive belt after being cornered by U.S. special forces during a raid in the outskirts of Barisha, Idlib Governorate, Syria. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is appointed as ISIL's new Caliph.
- November 4 - La Linea enforcers kill 9 American-Mexicans near Bavispe, Sonora.
- November 7 - Bosco Ntaganda, former chief of staff of the National Congress for the Defence of the People, is sentenced to 30 years in prison for war crimes by the ICC.
- November 10 - John Cobin shoots at a group of protesters in Reñaca, Chile, injuring one.
- November 14 - Saugus High School shooting
- November 21 - Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of breach of trust, bribery and fraud.
- November 29 - Two people are stabbed to death in London by former Al-Muhajiroun member Usman Khan.
- December 10 - David Nathaniel Anderson and Francine Graham kill a police officer near a cemetery, then three civilians at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, before being killed by police.
- December 18 - Tekashi 6ix9ine is sentenced to two years in prison as part of the ongoing investigation into the activities of the Nine Trey Gangsters.
- Unknown - The Black Hammer Party is founded.
Births edit
Victim births edit
- January 26 - Jessica Biscaia
- May 21 - Star Hobson
- June 10 - Jeong-In
Deaths edit
Villain deaths edit
- January 9 - Jakiw Palij & Gao Chengyong
- February 15 - Gary Montez Martin
- February 28 - Billy Wayne Coble
- March 20 - One L. Goh
- April 17 - Alan García
- April 24 - John William King
- May 1 - Isaac Pineda & Reinaldo Gonzalez
- May 3 - Frank Lucas
- May 18 - Sean Michael Collins
- May 20 - Carlos Javier Roman Santiago
- May 22 - Ahmad Abu Bakar of Pahang
- May 23 - Bobby Joe Long
- May 31 - DeWayne Craddock
- June 11 - Billy McKee
- June 17 - Bryan Isaack Clyde & Mohammed Morsi
- June 21 - Peter Ball
- June 25 - Ringaudas Songaila
- July 13 - Willem van Spronsen
- July 22 - Li Peng
- June 23 - Mufutau Sulaimon
- July 27 - Andrew Golden
- July 28 - Santino William Legan
- July 30 - Zhao Zhihong
- July 31 - Hamza bin Laden
- August 4 - Connor Betts & Nuon Chea
- August 10 - Jeffrey Epstein
- August 16 - Stephen West
- August 31 - Seth Ator
- September 4 - Kylie Rae Harris
- September 6 - Robert Mugabe
- September 10 - Stefano Delle Chiaie
- September 16 - Claudia Ochoa Felix
- September 18 - Sylvestre Mudacumura
- September 19 - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
- October 13 - Richard Huckle
- October 26 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
- October 27 - Ivan Milat
- October 28 - Ashley Auzenne
- November 6 - Emma Ogle
- November 9 - Anna Mae Blessing
- November 15 - Nathaniel Berhow
- November 29 - Usman Khan
- December 10 - David Nathaniel Anderson and Francine Graham
- December 13 - Lawrence Bittaker
- December 14 - Michael Karkoc
- December 27 - Phillip Carl Jablonski
- December 29 - Keith Thomas Kinnunen
Victim deaths edit
- January 1 - Charlotte Huggins
- January 14 - Paweł Adamowicz
- February - Danika Taylor
- February 12 - Anthony Williams and Christopher Thomas Jr
- March 27 - Raniya Wright
- March 31 - Nipsey Hussle
- April 4 - Jorden and Jaden Webb
- April 18 - Lyra McKee
- April 24 - Kashala Francis
- May 1 - Marays Morejon
- May 3 - Ellie Gould
- May 7 - Kendrick Castillo
- May 31 - Rhuan Maycon
- July 14 - Bianca Devins
- July 18 - Victims of the Kyoto Animation arson attack
- Yasuhiro Takemoto
- Futoshi Nishiya
- Yoshiji Kigami
- Junichi Uda
- Sachie Tsuda
- Mikiko Watanabe
- Yuki Omura
- Yuka Kasama
- Ami Kuriki
- Keisuke Yokota
- Nomi Iwasaki
- Atsushi Ishida
- Norie Oto
- Megumu Ono
- Yumi Kaneo
- Seiya Kawaguchi
- Sumire
- Aya Sato
- Sato Kota
- Sana Suzuki
- Hiroyuki Takahashi
- Takechi Miho
- Tokimori Tomoka
- Takahisa Fujita
- Kana Matsuura
- Maruko Tatsunari
- Atsushi
- Yuko Myoken
- Shiho Morisaki
- Sayaka Watanabe
- Kojiro Matsumoto
- Chitose Murayama
- July 30 - Kelly-Anne Case
- August 3 - Dorothy Woolmer
- August 3 - Jordan and Andre Anchondo, David Johnson , Javier Rodriguez , Angie Englisbee, Arturo Benavides, Elsa Mendoza Marquez, Leonardo Campos, Maribel Loya, Juan Velazquez, Gloria Irma Marquez, Maria Eugenia Legarreta Rothe, Sara Esther Regalado , Adolfo Cerros Hernandez, Margie Reckard, Ivan Filiberto Manzano, Jorge Calvillo Garcia, Maria and Raul Flores, Alexander Hoffman, Teresa Sanchez, and Guillermo 'Memo' Garcia,
- August 30 - Elijah McClain
- August 31 - Sky Carmack
- August 31 - Leilah Hernandez
- August 6 - Debra Johnson
- September 26 - Khyler Edman
- October- Aniah Blanchard
- October 28 - Eleanor, Lincoln, and Parrish Auzenne
- November 14 - Dominick Blackwell and Gracie Ann Muehlberger
- November 29 - Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones
- December 8 - Michael Rumberger