2020
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Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 2020 MMXX |
Ab urbe condita | 2773 |
Armenian calendar | 1469 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6770 |
Bahá'í calendar | 176–177 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1941–1942 |
Bengali calendar | 1427 |
Berber calendar | 2970 |
British Regnal year | N/A |
Buddhist calendar | 2564 |
Burmese calendar | 1382 |
Byzantine calendar | 7528–7529 |
Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4716 or 4656 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4717 or 4657 |
Coptic calendar | 1736–1737 |
Discordian calendar | 3186 |
Ethiopian calendar | 2012–2013 |
Hebrew calendar | 5780–5781 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2076–2077 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1941–1942 |
- Kali Yuga | 5120–5121 |
Holocene calendar | 12020 |
Igbo calendar | 1020–1021 |
Iranian calendar | 1398–1399 |
Islamic calendar | 1441–1442 |
Japanese calendar | Reiwa 2 (令和2年) |
Javanese calendar | 1953–1954 |
Juche calendar | 109 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4353 |
Minguo calendar | ROC 109 民國109年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 552 |
Thai solar calendar | 2563 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 2146 or 1765 or 993 — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 2147 or 1766 or 994 |
Unix time | 1577836800 – 1609459199 |
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2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events[edit]
- January 11 – 2020 Taiwan presidential election and legislative election.
- January 31 – After the Brexit withdrawal agreement passed its second reading in the House of Commons on December 20, 2019, the United Kingdom will officially leave the European Union.[1]
- April 26 – 2020 Chilean constitutional referendum.
- May 12–16 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 will be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands.[citation needed]
- May 17 – Dominican Republic presidential election.
- June 12 – July 12 – UEFA Euro 2020 will be held in 12 European countries, and the 2020 Copa América will be held in Argentina and Colombia.
- June 22–27 – The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2020 (CHOGM) will be held in Kigali, Rwanda.[2][importance?]
- July 17 – Planned launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions.[3]
- July 24 – August 9 – The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.[4]
- September 6 – 2020 New Caledonian independence referendum.
- October 4 - Brazil Municipal Elections - First Round.
- October 18 – The 2020 ICC T20 World Cup will be held in Australia in eight cities.[5]
- October 20 – The 2020 World Expo will open in Dubai.[6]
- October 25 - Brazil Municipal Elections - Second Round
- October 31 – The Berlin Brandenburg Airport in Germany is scheduled to finally open after nine years of delays due to malfunctions of the fire protection system.[importance?]
- November – Earliest date for planned launch of NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon to test the Space Launch System rocket.[importance?]
- November 3 – United States presidential election.
- November 21 – 2020 New Zealand general election.
- December 31 – Following the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union, expected on January 31, 2020, this is when the current transition period for negotiations on a future relationship is set to expire.[7]
Date unknown[edit]
- 2020 Bolivian presidential election.
- 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election.
- Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
- Egypt, which has the highest rate of hepatitis C in the world, is expected to eradicate the disease by 2020 after an ambitious nationwide campaign against hepatitis C.[8]
- ESA's ExoMars Rover launches from Earth.[9]
- Estimated completion date for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.[10]
- Estimated completion of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Poland.[11]
- Liberia will become the first nation of the world to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid – Norway will pay the impoverished country $150 million to stop deforestation by 2020.[12]
- The Grand Egyptian Museum, described as the largest archaeological museum in the world, is expected to be completed.[13]
- The New Administrative Capital of Egypt is expected to be completed.[14]
In fiction[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "MPs back Johnson's plan to leave EU on 31 January". December 20, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Commonwealth heads of government to meet in Rwanda". December 30, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Overview - 2020 Mission Plans". Mars.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ "Olympics 2020: Tokyo wins race to host Games - BBC Sport". Bbc.co.uk. September 7, 2013. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ "Australia is next with two T20 World Cups coming in 2020". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- ^ "Expo 2020 Dubai, First World Expo in the Middle East". Bie-paris.org. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ^ "Brexit: What is the transition period?". December 20, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Egypt declares war on hepatitis C". Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- ^ esa. "Second ExoMars mission moves to next launch opportunity in 2020". European Space Agency.
- ^ "China GPS rival Beidou starts offering navigation data". BBC News. BBC. December 27, 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ^ "Poland Says U.S. Missile Shield Site Delayed Until 2020". usnews.com. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
- ^ "Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation". BBC. September 23, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
- ^ "The Highly Anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum Will Finally Open Its Doors in 2020". Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- ^ "50,000 state employees to be reassigned to Egypt's New Administrative Capital in 2020: Ministry". Retrieved November 26, 2019.