2019

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Earth Dog (戊戌, 35) - Earth Pig (己亥, 36)

Anticipated events

• Mai: European elections
• Federal Garden Show in Heilbronn
• Expiry of the Solidarity Pact II for the reconstruction of the East
• Completion of the Ceneri base tunnel
• Handball World Cup in Germany and Dänermark

Already fixed events

Anniversaries

• May 02: 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci

Astronomy

• Partial solar eclipse on January 6. Visible in Northeast Asia and the North Pacific.
• Total lunar eclipse on 21 January.
• Total Solar Eclipse on July 2. Visible in the Pacific, Oeno, Chile and Argentina.
• Partial lunar eclipse on July 16.
• Transit of Mercury on November 11.
• Annular Solar Eclipse on 26 December. Visible in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Mangalore, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Borneo and Guam.

Cultural references

• The film Blade Runner plays in November 2019.