Timeline of United States history (2010–present)

This section of the Timeline of United States history includes major events from 2010 to the present.

2010s

Presidency of Barack Obama

Presidency of Donald Trump

  • 2019 — All the works published in 1923 except for sound recordings (2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States.
  • January 1, 2019 — Washington state bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle
  • January 25th, 2019 — The longest government shutdown in American History (December 22nd, 2018 -January 25th, 2019), or 35 days, officially ends.
  • January 30th, 2019 — Large portions of the United States are hit with a polar vortex. The city of Chicago once again hit a record low: 27 degrees below zero. It occurred for fifty-two straight hours.
  • February 1st, 2019 — President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
  • 2019 — Mexican drug boss/lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found guilty on all ten counts at a drug-trafficking trial in New York.
  • February 22nd, 2019 — Singer R. Kelly charged with ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for incidents dating back as far as the year 1998.
  • February 27th, 2019 — 2019 North Korea - United States Hanoi Summit held in Vietnam. It is the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
  • March 26, 2019 — Vice President Mike Pence orders NASA to fly Americans to the Moon within the next five years, using either government or private carriers.
  • 2019 — Supreme Court case Bucklew V. Precythe the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that inmates on death row are not guaranteed "painless executions" under the Constitution
  • April 4th, 2019 — The 1973 War Powers Act Resolution is invoked for the first time when the House of Representatives votes 247–175 to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia in its intervention in the Yemeni Civil War.
  • April 2019 — The first image of a black hole is taken.
  • April 2019 — James Earl Carter Jr. becomes the longest ever living U.S. president at 94 years old, following the death of George H. W. Bush in December 2018.
  • April 22, 2019 — Avengers Endgame is released going on to become the highest-grossing movie of all time.
  • April 27, 2019 — A gunman kills one and injures three in a California Synagogue. The suspect is white supremacist John Timothy Earnest, who was 19 years old at the time.
  • May 31, 2019 — A city employee for Virginia Beach entered a municipal building with a gun and kills 12 people.
  • June 8, 2019 — President Trump reached an agreement with Mexico to avoid tariffs.
  • June 9, 2019 — A construction crane fell on an apartment complex in Dallas, killing 1 person and injuring 6.
  • June 14, 2019 — One person died and two more were injured after a gunman entered a Costco in Southern California.
  • July 26, 2019 — The Supreme Court ruled to give President Trump $2.5 billion to fund his wall. The court ruled in a 5–4 vote.
  • August 3, 2019 — 23 people are killed and another 23 are injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
  • August 4, 2019 — A gunman opened fire on a bar in Dayton, Ohio. He killed nine people and injured another 27.
  • August 10, 2019 – Financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell under mysterious circumstances. It was declared a suicide by hanging, although the ruling is widely disputed.
  • August 12, 2019 — An anonymous whistleblower filed a complaint against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, claiming that the two sought foreign intervention in the 2020 presidential election. This complaint would lead to an investigation into the Trump-Ukraine scandal.
  • September 24, 2019 — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the House of Representatives would begin an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.
  • December 18, 2019 — The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.

2020s

Presidency of Joe Biden

  • January 20, 2021 — Joe Biden becomes the 46th President and Kamala Harris Vice President. Harris is the first woman to hold a national elective office.

See also

References

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