Timeline of United States history (2010-present)

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

  • 2010 — The Digital Age advances across the U.S. and worldwide with things like the advent of smartphones.Also computers and other teglolagy

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 anyone 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
  • February 3rd, 2019 — Super Bowl LIII (54) is hosted at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. Quarterback Tom Brady wins his sixth championship. It is the most ever won by an NFL player. The Halftime show featured Maroon 5. The game ended with a historically low score. The New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams 13 to 3.
  • 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 of 2018.
  • April 27th, 2019 — A 19 year old gunman kills one and injures three in a California Synagogue.
  • May 31st, 2019 — A city employee for Virginia Beach entered a municipal building with a gun and kills 12 people.
  • June 8th, 2019 — President Trump reached an agreement with Mexico to avoid tariffs.
  • June 9th, 2019 — A construction crane fell on an apartment complex in Dallas, killing 1 person and injuring 6.
  • June 14th, 2019 — One person died and two more were injured after a gunman entered a Costco in Southern California.
  • July 26th, 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 3rd, 2019 — A 21-year-old gunman entered a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The gunman killed 20 people and injured another 26.
  • August 3rd, 2019 — A gunman opened fire on a bar in Dayton, Ohio. He killed 9 people and injured another 27.
  • August 10th, 2019 – Financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell under mysterious circumstances.
  • September 24th, 2019 — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the House of Representatives would begin an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.
  • December 18th, 2019 — The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Donald J. Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.


1990-2009 Timeline of United States history
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