Events in the year 2020 in Peru.
Incumbents President: Martín Vizcarra Francisco Sagasti (from 17 November) Prime Minister: Vicente Zeballos (until 15 July) Pedro Cateriano (from 15 July) Walter Martos Ruiz (from 6 August) Violeta Bermúdez (from 18 November)
Events Ongoing – The 2017–2021 Peruvian political crisis
January 26 January – Scheduled date for the 2020 Peruvian parliamentary election.
April 27 April – A prison riot at the Miguel Castro Castro prison in San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima left nine inmates dead.
August 22 August – 13 people are killed in a stampede when police raided at a nightclub in Los Olivos District.
September 18 September – Impeachment hearings for President Martín Vizcarra begin.
Deaths
January January 4 – Walter Ormeño, footballer (b. 1926). January 9 – Pablo Macera, historian (b. 1929). January 19 – Dante Frasnelli Tarter, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1925).
March March 4 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, politician and diplomat (b. 1920).
June June 1 – Javier Alva Orlandini, politician, Vice President, President of the Senate (b. 1927). June 9 – Luis Repetto Málaga, museologist and cultural manager (b. 1953).
July July 1 – Santiago Manuin Valera, Awajún leader and Indigenous rights activist (b. 1957).
August August 10 – Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (b. 1935). August 12 – Gian Carlo Vacchelli, sports commentator and politician (b. 1981). August 14 – Moisés Mamani, politician (b. 1969). August 24 – Jorge Sanjinez Lenz, military volunteer (b. 1917). August 25 – Francisco Belaúnde, politician (b. 1923).
September September 14 – Alicia Maguiña, singer and composer (b. 1938).
December December 14 – Segundo Galicia Sánchez, professor and sociologist (b. 1938).
See also
History of Peru
References