2020

This article is about the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. For the cricket format, see Twenty20. For other uses, see 2020 (disambiguation).

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2020 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Rock, Metal, UK) – Radio – Photo – Television – Video gaming

Politics and government

Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Volleyball

By place

Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Angola – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Barbados – Belgium – Benin – Bhutan – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Brazil – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czechia – Denmark – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Gabon – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Guatemala – Guyana – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Japan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kosovo – Kuwait – Kyrgyzstan – Laos – Latvia – Lebanon – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Malawi – Malaysia – Mali – Mexico – Moldova – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palestine – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – South Africa – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tanzania – Thailand – Tunisia – Turkey – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe

Other topics

Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2020 in various calendars

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	68 Eliz. 2 – 69 Eliz. 2
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

2020 (MMXX) is the current year, and is 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.

Events

January

• January 1
  • All works published in 1924, except for some sound recordings, are now in the public domain in the United States. This is the first release of material to the public domain since 1978.
  • Crowds of protesters breach the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, and then withdrew after US Marines fired tear gas. The unrest occurred in response to US air strikes on pro-Iranian militias in Iraq.
• January 2
  • The government of New South Wales, Australia, declares a state of emergency whilst the government of Victoria, Australia declares a state of disaster, as bushfires rage, threatening human lives and property as well as wiping out as many as 500 million animals.
  • 26 people die and 62,000 are evacuated due to flash floods in Jakarta, Indonesia.
• January 3
  • A U.S. coordinated airstrike near Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian military officials Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Protests sweep Iran following the assassination.
  • Brent Crude oil prices increase by 1.3% and oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange increase by 4% in response to increased tensions between the United States and Iran.

Predicted and scheduled events

Scheduled

• January 11 – 2020 Taiwanese presidential election and legislative election.
• January 26 – 2020 Peruvian parliamentary election.
• January 31 – After the Brexit withdrawal agreement passed its second reading in the House of Commons on December 20, 2019, the United Kingdom and Gibraltar are scheduled to leave the European Union.
• February 29 – 2020 Slovak parliamentary election.
• March 2 – Israel will hold its third Knesset election in less than a year.
• April 12 – 2020 North Macedonian parliamentary election.
• April 26
  • 2020 Chilean national plebiscite.
  • 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.
• May 3 – Bolivian general election
• 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.
• July 17 – Planned launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions.
• July 24 – August 9 – The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.
• September 6 – 2020 New Caledonian independence referendum.
• October 18 – The 2020 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be held in Australia in eight cities.
• October 20 – The 2020 World Expo will open in Dubai.
• November 3 – United States presidential 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.

Date unknown

• 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election
• 2020 New Zealand 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.
• ESA's ExoMars Rover launches from Earth.
• Estimated completion date for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.
• Estimated completion of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Poland.
• 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.
• The Grand Egyptian Museum, described as the largest archaeological museum in the world, is expected to be completed.
• The New Administrative Capital of Egypt is expected to be completed.
• Planned launch of NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon to test the Space Launch System rocket.

Deaths

Further information: Category:2020 deaths

January

Main article: Deaths in January 2020

• January 1
  • Don Larsen, American baseball player (b. 1929)
  • David Stern, American businessman and NBA commissioner (b. 1942)
• January 3
  • Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iraqi-Iranian military commander (b. 1954)
  • Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (b. 1957)

In fiction

Main article: 21st century in fiction § 2020