2019 in Cuba
# 2019 in Cuba

Events in the year 2019 in Cuba.

## 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.
* January 27 – A rare EF4 tornado makes landfall in Havana, killing at least three and causing severe damage.

### February

* February 24 – The 2019 Cuban constitutional referendum took place.

### 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.

### 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.

## Deaths

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