2019

== Events ==
=== January ===
* January 1
** New Horizons makes a close approach to the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 486958 Arrokoth at 05:33 UTC.
** Jair Bolsonaro begins his four-year term as President of Brazil.
** Qatar withdraws from OPEC.
** Works published by authors who died in 1948 enter the public domain in many countries. In the U.S., all works published in 1923 enter the public domain, the first entry of published works into the public domain since 1998.
* January 2 – Adventist Health Systems and its subsidiaries rebranded to AdventHealth.
* January 3 – Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first artificial object to land on the far side of the Moon.
* January 5 – Bartholomew I of Constantinople issues a formal decree granting independence to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine from the Russian Orthodox Church.
* January 6 – Muhammad V of Kelantan abdicates the federal throne as the 15th monarch of Malaysia, the first Malaysian monarch to do so.
* January 7 – A faction of the Armed Forces of Gabon attempts a coup d'état.
* January 10 – Venezuela enters a presidential crisis as Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly declare incumbent President Nicolás Maduro "illegitimate".
* January 14 – Paweł Adamowicz, mayor of Gdańsk, died after his was stabbed shortly after his speech on 27. finale of WOŚP.
* January 23 – Venezuelan presidential crisis: Thousands of people protest in favor of disputed interim President Juan Guaidó. Several people are killed, and President Maduro severs U.S. diplomatic ties.
* January 25 – A mine tailings dam breaks in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. At least 248 people are killed, with 22 missing.
* January 28 – The U.S. Justice Department charges Chinese tech firm Huawei with multiple counts of fraud, raising U.S.–China tensions.
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