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The following lists events that happened during 2020 in Oceania.


Years in Oceania: 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Centuries: 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
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Sovereign states

Australia

Main article: 2020 in Australia

Australia The Commonwealth of Australia gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1901 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

Ashmore and Cartier Islands Ashmore and Cartier Islands, located in the Indian Ocean, is an uninhabited territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport.[3]

Christmas Island

Christmas Island Christmas Island, located in the Indian Ocean, is a non-self governing territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport.[3]

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands, located in the Indian Ocean, is a non-self governing territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport.[3]

  • Governor General: Sir Peter Cosgrove (since March 28, 2014)[4]
  • Administrator: Natasha Griggs (since October 5, 2018)[4]

Coral Sea Islands

Coral Sea Islands The Coral Sea Islands is a territory of Australia administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts, and Sport.[3]

Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island Norfolk Island is a self-governing territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts, and Sport.[3]

  • Administrator: Eric Hutchinson (since April 1, 2017)[5]

East Timor / Timor-Leste

East Timor The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became independent from Portugal in 1975 and from Indonesia in 2002.[6]

Fiji

Main article: 2020 in Fiji

Fiji The Republic of Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1970 and became a republic in 1987.[7]

Kiribati

Kiribati The Republic of Kiribati is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations that became independent in 1979.[8]

  • Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II (since February 6, 1952)[1]
  • President: Taneti Mamau (since March 11, 2016)

Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands The Republic of the Marshall Islands is an associated state of the United States.

Micronesia

Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia is an independent republic and an associated state of the United States.

Nauru

Nauru The Republic of Nauru gained its independence in 1969 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Palau

Palau The Republic of Palau was established in 1979 and it became an associated state of the United States in 1994.[12]

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea The Independent State of Papua New Guinea declared its independence from Australia in 1975 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Realm of New Zealand

New Zealand The Realm of New Zealand consists of the sovereign state of New Zealand, the associated states of the Cook Islands and Niue, and the dependent territory of Tokelau. It also includes the Antarctica territorial claim of the Ross Dependency.

New Zealand

Main article: 2020 in New Zealand

New Zealand signed the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Cook Islands

Cook Islands The Cook Islands is a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand.[3]

Niue

Niue Niue is a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand.[3]

Tokelau

Tokelau Tokelau is a self-administering dependent territory of New Zealand.[3]

Samoa

Samoa The Independent State of Samoa became independent from New Zealand in 1962.

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands The Solomon Islands became independent from the United Kingdom in 1978 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

  • Governor-General: David Vunagi (since July 8, 2019)[13]
  • Prime Minister: Rick Hou (since November 16, 2017)[13]

Tonga

Tonga The Kingdom of Tonga became independent from British protection in 1970 and became a constitutional monarchy in 2010.[14]

Tuvalu

Tuvalu Tuvalu became independent from the United Kingdom in 1978 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.[15]

Vanuatu

Vanuatu The Republic of Vanuatu became independent from France and the United Kingdom in 1980 and is a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.[16]

Dependencies

British Overseas Territories

United Kingdom The British Overseas Territories are territories that have not been granted independence. Most are self-governing and are lightly populated.

  • Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II (since February 6, 1952)[19]

Pitcairn Islands

Pitcairn Islands The Pitcairn Islands are the only British Overseas Territory located in the Pacific Ocean.[3]

  • Governor (nonresident) of the Pitcairn Islands: Laura Clark (since January 25, 2018)[19]
  • Mayor and Chairman of the Island Council: Charlene Warren-Peu (since January 1, 2020)[19]

Chile

Main article: 2020 in Chile

Chile Chile declared its independence from Spain in September 18, 1810.[20]

Insular Chile

Valparaíso Region

France

Main article: 2020 in France

France French colonization of Oceania began in 1834 when Catholic missionaries arrived in Tahiti.

French Polynesia

French Polynesia French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France since 2003, though it is often referred to as an overseas country due to its degree of autonomy.[3]

New Caledonia

New Caledonia New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France since 1998.[3]

  • High Commissioner: Laurent Prevost (since August 5, 2019)[23]
  • President of the Government: Thierry Santa (since July 9, 2019)[23]
    • Temporary Vice President: Gilbert Tuienon (since July 9, 2019)[23]

Wallis and Futuna

Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna is an overseas collectivity of France since 2003.[3]

  • High Administrator: Thierry Queffelec (since 7 January 2019)[24]
  • President of the Territorial Assembly David Verge (since 4 April 2017)[24]
  • There are three traditional kings with limited powers.[24]

United States

Main article: 2020 in the United States
See also: 2020 in United States politics and government

United States The United States expansion into the Pacific beginning with Baker Island and Howland Island in 1857.

American Samoa

American Samoa American Samoa is an unincorporated unorganized territory of the U.S.[3]

Guam

Guam Guam is an unincorporated organized territory of the U.S.[3]

Hawaii

Hawaii Hawaii became a state of the United States on August 21, 1959. It consists of eight major islands and 129 smaller islands.

Northern Mariana Islands

Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands is a commonwealth in political union with and under the sovereignty of the United States.[28]

United States Minor Outlying Islands

The United States Minor Outlying Islands are small, isolated islands or atolls in the Pacific Ocean. Most are uninhabited, although they may be administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as National Wildlife Refuges. They are unincorporated territories of the U.S.[3]

Events

January

February

March

April

  • April 1 – With between 150-200 cases of COVID-19, healthy sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt disembark to be quarantined in hotels on Guam. Infected crew members will stay on Naval Base Guam. About 10% of the crew are required to remain on the ship nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.[62]
  • April 2 – The 5,000 crew members of the USS Roosevelt cheered Captain Brett Crozier after he was relieved of duty for speaking up about the coronavirus outbreak on the ship. 60,000 people had signed a petition from Change.org asking for his reinstatement.[63][64]
  • April 3
    • Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) reports two cases of COVID-19. The 3,000 inhabitants of the island are nearly 100% dependent upon tourism which has been shut off. There is a daily curfew from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and people fear they may soon be forced to beg for food.[65]
    • The Solomon Islands says dozens of people could be lost at sea as Cyclone Harold hits the islands.[66]
  • April 4
    • Vanuatu is on alert for Cyclone Harold.[67]
    • COVID-19
      • Fiji announces a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases from seven to twelve.[68]
      • Guam has two more COVID-19 deaths and two more positive tests, bringing the total number of cases to 84.[69]
      • New Caledonia president Thierry Santa moves into self-isolation after a member of her crisis management team tested positive.[69]
      • New Zealand reports 52 new confirmed infections, bringing the total to 950.[69]
      • Seventy-eight New Zealanders remain on 12 cruise ships because of COVID-19-related travel restrictions around the world.[69]
  • April 7 – The High Court of Australia unanimously quashes Cardinal George Pell convictions and substitutes verdicts of acquittal.[70]
  • April 8 – National Health Day, Kiribati[71]
  • April 10 – Good Friday (Christian holiday)
  • April 13
    • Easter Monday (Christian holiday)
    • Since March 23, 561 Fijians have been repatriated and 1,157 visitors to Fiji have been evacuated.[72]
  • April 14 – A week after Tropical Cyclone Harold, a Category 5 superstorm, 35% of the population (100,000 people) of Vanuatu is homeless. Three people died, but the death toll is expected to rise. 27 people died in the Solomon Islands and one died in Fiji. No deaths were reported in Tonga, but 400 homes were destroyed.[73]
  • April 19 – Twenty-two new cases of COVID-19 infections in Taiwan are reported in sailors who recently visited Palau. Palau has not had any reported cases.[74]
  • April 20
  • April 25
    • Anzac Day: Most public celebrations canceled, but private memorials are held.[78][79]
    • Former Tonga Prime Minister Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō receives a two-year suspended sentence, and a $US1,700 fine for passport, perjury, and firearm offenses.[80]
    • Labor unions in French Polynesia reject the government's COVID-19 pandemic relief package.[81]
  • April 28 – St. Peter Chanel Day, Wallis and Fortuna. Chanel is the Catholic patron saint of Oceania, buried on Fortuna Island.[82]

May

  • May 20
    • Restoration of Independence, East Timor[6]
    • COVID-19 pandemic: Alyza Alder, 18, from Gilbert, Arizona, was visiting Hawaii when she was arrested after allegedly violating the state's mandatory order that tourists and returning residents self-isolate for 14 days.[88] Hawaii has had 643 confirmed cases and 17 deaths from COVID-19.
  • May 22 – May 2020 New Zealand National Party leadership election.[89] Todd Muller and Nikki Kaye won.[90]
  • May 23 – The former prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O’Neill, is arrested and taken in for questioning over alleged misappropriation and corruption involving the purchase of two power generators from Israel for 50 million kina ($14.2 million).[91]
  • May 23 and 24 – Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday (breaking the fast)[92]
  • May 24 – A 5.8Mw earthquake strikes New Zealand; Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern continues a television interview. No damages or injuries are reported.[93]
  • May 25 – Memorial Day, Hawaii and U.S. territories

June

July

  • July 1 – Flights from Canberra to Wellington resume.[101]
  • July 2 – Discovery Day, Pitcairn Islands[100]
  • July 3 – Fishermen's Holiday, Marshall Islands
  • July 4 – COVID-19 pandemic: 3,000 people in nine residential towers in Melbourne, Australia are confined to their buildings in the country's strictest lockdown as new infections rise in the area.[102]
  • July 4 – Independence Day, United States (celebrated in Hawaii and U.S. territories)
  • July 7
    • COVID-19 pandemic
      • Fourteen flight attendants from Hawaiian Airlines test positive for coronavirus and go into quarantine.[103]
      • Authorities in New Zealand say they will press charges against a 32-year-old coronavirus patient who escaped quarantine in Auckland and went shopping at a supermarket.[104]
  • July 8
    • Heilala Festival Week, Tonga
    • A new study from Stanford University shows that people from four island sites in French Polynesia bore DNA indicative of interbreeding with South Americans most closely related to present-day indigenous Colombians at around 1200 AD. People from Chile's Rapa Nui (Easter Island) also had South American ancestry.[105]
  • July 9 – Australia ends its extradition treaty with Hong Kong.[106]
  • July 17 – A 7.0Mw earthquake with an epicenter in Morobe Patrol Post, New Guinea, is recorded. Only minor damages are reported.[107]

August

  • August 4 – Three men are rescued from Pikelot Island, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Pulap atoll, Micronesia, after writing SOS in the sand.[108]
  • August 9 – COVID-19 pandemic: New Zealand goes 100 days without any new infections.[109]
  • August 11

Scheduled

Elections

Main article: 2020 list of elections
See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on politics

National and territorial holidays

See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage

May to August

September to December

Culture

See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage

Television

See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television

The long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours continues filming by limiting studio access and practicing social distancing. As of April 21, the country reported 6,547 cases of infection and 67 deaths related to COVID-19.[118]

Sports

See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports

By sport

Association football / soccer
Football
Tennis

By date

Deaths

January to March

April to June

July to September

Television

See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television

See also

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  137. ^ Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has died
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  139. ^ Environmentalist Sir Rob Fenwick dies at age 68
  140. ^ Vale Kevin Bacon
  141. ^ Australian Jazz Legend Don Burrows Passes Away At Age 92
  142. ^ Rest in peace Henry Smith
  143. ^ Peter Stapleton (25 April 1954 – 22 March 2020)
  144. ^ Aronian’s wife, Arianne Caoili, dies aged 33
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  148. ^ Ratu Finau Mara Passes Away After An Illness
  149. ^ Fijivillage. "Former PM Laisenia Qarase to be laid to rest at his home village in Mavana, Lau". www.fijivillage.com. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  150. ^ Kiwi actor Bruce Allpress dies aged 89
  151. ^ Former All Black and Marlborough Ranfurly Shield hero Alan Sutherland has died
  152. ^ Former Gov. Froilan Cruz Tenorio passes away
  153. ^ Margaret Wyn Loutit
  154. ^ Bishop Basil Meeking, Bishop Emeritus of Christchurch, dies aged 90
  155. ^ The life and times of Aboriginal rights champion and political trailblazer John Ah Kit, dead at 69
  156. ^ Sir Toke Talagi, longtime premier of Niue, dies
  157. ^ "Derek Ho, first Hawaiian man to win world surfing title, dead at 55". NBC News. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
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