2019 in Cuba

Events in the year 2019 in Cuba.

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See also:

Incumbents

First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: Raúl Castro
- Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: José Ramón Machado Ventura
President: Miguel Díaz-Canel
- First Vice President: Salvador Valdés Mesa
Prime Minister: Manuel Marrero Cruz

Events

January

January 2 – The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution was celebrated in the capital of Havana.[1]
January 27 – A rare EF4 tornado makes landfall in Havana, killing at least three and causing severe damage.[2]

February

February 24 – The 2019 Cuban constitutional referendum took place.[3]

March

March 24–27 – President Díaz-Canel hosted the Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall to the capital as the first members of the British royal family to visit the island.[4][5]

April

April 10 – The new Constitution of Cuba came into force.

December

December 21 – Manuel Marrero Cruz assumes office as the 19th Prime Minister of Cuba, becoming the first person to hold the office after the post was reestablished by the 2019 Constitution.[6]

Deaths

July 26 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (b. 1936)[7]

References

"Cuba celebrates 60 years since Castro's communist revolution". aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
"Cuba tornado: Three killed and more than 170 injured in Havana as deadly cyclone hits capital". The Independent. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
Legon, Elio Delgado (2018-07-23). "Cuba's Reformed Constitution, a Democratic and Participatory Process". Havana Times. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
"Charles and Camilla make history in Cuba". BBC News. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
"prensa-latina.cu/index.php?o=rn&id=264156&SEO=carlos-de-gales-y-camila-de-cornualles-rinden-homenaje-a-jose-marti". prensa-latina.cu (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-08.
"Cuba names tourism minister to be first PM since 1976". AP NEWS. 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
Muere líder de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba, cardenal Ortega, clave en acercamiento con EEUU Archived 2019-07-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

Years in Cuba (1741–present)
18th century	1741‎ ... 1748‎ ... 1760‎ 1761‎ 1762‎ 1763‎ ... 1793‎
19th century	1815 ... 1822 ... 1835 ... 1840 ... 1846 ... 1853 1854 ... 1862 ... 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

2019 in North America
Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States
Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

2019 in the Caribbean

British West Indies
Danish West Indies
Dutch Caribbean
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Netherlands Antilles
French West Indies
West Indies Federation

West
Indies

Antilles

Greater
Antilles

Cayman Islands
Cuba
Jamaica
Navassa Island
Puerto Rico

Hispaniola	Dominican Republic Haiti

Lesser
Antilles

Leeward
Islands

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Guadeloupe
- La Désirade
- Les Saintes
- Marie-Galante
Montserrat
Saba^{^*}
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sint Eustatius^{^*}

Saint Martin^{^}	Collectivity of Saint Martin Sint Maarten
Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean

Leeward
Antilles

Insular Venezuela
- Federal Dependencies
- Nueva Esparta

ABC islands	Aruba Bonaire^* Curaçao

Windward
Islands

Dominica
Grenada
- Carriacou and Petite Martinique
Martinique
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Barbados^†
Trinidad and Tobago^†

Lucayan
Archipelago

Bahamas
Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea

Aves Island
San Andrés and Providencia
- Bajo Nuevo Bank^~
- Serranilla Bank^~

Caribbean
continental
zone

Quintana Roo
- Cozumel

Central America	Belize Honduras Bay Islands Izabal Limón Corn Islands North Caribbean Coast South Caribbean Coast Panama
South America	Colombian Caribbean Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:

Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
The Guianas	Amapá French Guiana Venezuelan Guayana Guyana Guayana Esequiba^ǂ Tigri Area^ǂ Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^{^}These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which ^*the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

^†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

^ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ^~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

^#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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