Ongoing events
Disasters
- 2018–19 European windstorm season
- 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic
- Midwestern U.S. floods
- 2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- 2019 Pacific hurricane season
- 2019 Pacific typhoon season
- 2019 Atlantic hurricane season
- 2019 wildfire season
- Yemeni famine
Politics
- 1MDB scandal
- Afghan peace talks
- Algerian protests
- Austrian political scandal
- Brexit negotiations
- European migrant crisis (timeline)
- Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests
- Iranian protests
- Iraqi protests
- Korean peace process
- Mueller report (investigation) (timeline)
- Papua protests
- Qatar diplomatic crisis
- Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
- Turkish purges
- Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
- Yellow vests movement
Religion
Sports
More details – ongoing conflicts
Elections and referendums
Recent
- August
- 24: Nauru, Parliament
- 25: Abkhazia, President (1st)
- 31: Faroe Islands, Løgting
Upcoming
- September
- 8: Abkhazia, President (2nd)
- 9: Tuvalu, Parliament
- 15: Tunisia, President
Recently concluded
- Sweden: ASAP Rocky
- Spain: Trial of Catalonia independence leaders
- United Kingdom: Tommy Robinson
- United States: Keith Raniere, Eddie Gallagher
- International
Ongoing
- Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
- Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
- Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
- Philippines: Leila de Lima
- South Africa: Jacob Zuma
- Spain: Bárcenas affair
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal, Raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, 6ix9ine
Upcoming
- Guatemala: Álvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
- Japan: Carlos Ghosn
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
- United Kingdom: Football sex abuse scandal, David Duckenfield
- United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, Chris Collins, Duncan D. Hunter, Roger Stone, R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, Michael Avenatti, Golden State Killer
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
- Association football
- Women's association football
- American football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Golf
- Motorsport
- Rugby league
- Rugby union
- Tennis
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
August 2019
- 31: Anthoine Hubert
- 30: Franco Columbu
- 30: Valerie Harper
- 30: Hans Rausing
- 29: Jim Langer
- 29: Jim Leavelle
- 28: Nicolás Leoz
- 28: Sogyal Rinpoche
- 28: Nie Yuanzi
- 27: Jessi Combs
- 27: Dawda Jawara
- 26: Neal Casal
- 25: Ferdinand Piëch
- 25: Fernanda Young
- 24: Arun Jaitley
- 23: David Koch
- 22: Gary Ray Bowles
- 22: Tim Fischer
- 21: Dina bint Abdul-Hamid
- 19: Larry Taylor
- 18: Jack Whitaker
- 16: Felice Gimondi
- 16: Peter Fonda
- 16: Richard Williams
- 14: Graham Farmer
- 12: Frank Tsao
- 11: Ningali Lawford
- 10: Jeffrey Epstein
- 7: David Berman
- 7: Kary Mullis
- 6: Sushma Swaraj
- 5: Toni Morrison
- 4: Nuon Chea
- 4: Stu Rosen
- 3: Joe Longthorne
- 3: Damien Lovelock
- 1: Annemarie Huber-Hotz
- 1: D. A. Pennebaker
- 1: Harley Race
Africa
- Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Libya
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
Americas
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Peru
Asia
- Afghanistan
- China
- India
- India and Pakistan
- Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
Europe
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Russia
- Ukraine
