Portal:Current events/January 2020/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Disasters

• 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic
• 2018–19 Southern Africa drought
• 2019–20 Australian bushfire season
• 2019–20 European windstorm season
• 2019–20 outbreak of coronavirus
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Algerian protests
• Bolivian protests
• Brexit
• Catalan protests
• Chilean protests
• European migrant crisis (timeline)
• Hong Kong protests
• Indian Citizenship Amendment Act protests (Shaheen Bagh)
• Iranian protests
• Iraqi protests
• Impeachment of Donald Trump (Trump–Ukraine scandal)
• Kashmir lockdown
• Lebanese protests
• Libyan peace process
• Maltese protests
• Qatar diplomatic crisis
• Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
• Turkish purges
• Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
• Xinjiang concentration camps
• Yellow vests movement

Religion

• Moscow–Constantinople schism

Sports

• NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal

More details – ongoing conflicts

Elections and referendums

Recent

• January
  • 19: Comoros, Assembly of the Union (1st)
  • 26: Peru, Congress of the Republic

Upcoming

• February
  • 8: Ireland, Dáil Éireann
  • 9: Azerbaijan, National Assembly
  • 9: Cameroon, National Assembly
  • 9: Switzerland, Referendums

Trials

Recently concluded

• Pakistan: Pervez Musharraf
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
• Spain: Quim Torra
• United Kingdom: David Duckenfield
• United States: Roger Stone
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Ongoing

• Cambodia: Kem Sokha
• Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
• Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
• Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum, Benjamin Netanyahu
• Malaysia: Najib Razak
• Malta: Murder of Daphne Caruana
• Philippines: Leila de Lima, Maria Ressa, Leni Robredo
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Bárcenas affair, Catalan police leadership
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal, Raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, 6ix9ine

Upcoming

• Guatemala: Álvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
• Japan: Carlos Ghosn
• Philippines: "Bikoy" videos sedition case
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, Michael Avenatti, Golden State Killer, Nikolas Cruz
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
  • 2019–20 UEFA Champions League
  • 2019–20 UEFA Europa League
  • 2019–20 La Liga
  • 2019–20 Premier League
  • 2019–20 Serie A
  • 2019–20 Bundesliga
  • 2019–20 Liga MX season
  • 2019–20 Ligue 1
  • 2019–20 Scottish Premiership
• Women's association football
  • 2019–20 Champions League
  • 2019–20 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2019–20 FA WSL
  • 2019–20 Frauen-Bundesliga
  • 2019–20 Liga MX Femenil
• American football
  • 2019 NFL season (Playoffs)
• Basketball
  • 2019–20 EuroLeague
  • 2019–20 NBA season
  • 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
  • 2019–20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
• Golf
  • 2020 European Tour
  • 2020 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2019–20 NHL season
  • 2019–20 KHL season
  • 2019–20 Champions League
• Rugby sevens
  • 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series
  • 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
• Rugby union
  • 2019–20 European Rugby Champions Cup
  • 2019–20 Premiership Rugby
  • 2019–20 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Other sports seasons
  • 2019–20 international cricket season
  • 2019–20 curling season
  • 2019–20 figure skating season
  • 2019–20 snooker season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

January 2020

• 30: Lucien Barbarin
• 30: Fred Silverman
• 28: Harriet Frank Jr.
• 28: Nicholas Parsons
• 26: Kobe Bryant
• 26: Bob Shane
• 24: Pete Stark
• 23: Jim Lehrer
• 23: Franz Mazura
• 21: Terry Jones
• 21: Ian Tuxworth
• 20: Jaroslav Kubera
• 19: Dee Molenaar
• 19: Jimmy Heath
• 18: Ashwini Kumar Chopra
• 18: Egil Krogh
• 17: Derek Fowlds
• 17: Steve Rayner
• 15: Mark Harris
• 15: Rocky Johnson
• 15: Christopher Tolkien
• 13: Manmohan Mahapatra
• 12: Tony Garnett
• 12: Jayalath Manoratne
• 12: Kazuo Sakurada
• 12: Roger Scruton
• 11: La Parka II
• 10: Qaboos bin Said Al Said
• 9: Yong Pung How
• 9: Walter Boyne
• 9: Mike Resnick
• 9: Hal Smith
• 8: Leo Kolber
• 8: Edd Byrnes
• 8: Buck Henry
• 8: Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz
• 7: Stephen Clements
• 7: Larry Gogan
• 7: Neil Peart
• 7: Elizabeth Wurtzel
• 6: Richard Maponya
• 5: Hans Tilkowski
• 4: Tom Long
• 4: Lorenza Mazzetti
• 3: Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
• 3: Qasem Soleimani
• 2: John Baldessari
• 2: Marian Finucane
• 2: Sam Wyche
• 2: Shen Yi-ming
• 1: Don Larsen
• 1: Ng Jui Ping
• 1: David Stern

December 2019

• 30: Marion Chesney
• 30: Syd Mead

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • ADF insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Libya
  • Second Civil War
  • American intervention in Libya
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Islamist insurgency in Mozambique
• Nigeria
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican War on Drugs
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan War
• China
  • Xinjiang conflict
• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
    • Border skirmishes
• Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah
• Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • War in North-West Pakistan
  • Balochistan conflict
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion in the Philippines
  • Philippine Drug War
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Georgia
  • Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
  • Georgian–Ossetian conflict
• Russia
  • Chechen–Russian conflict
  • North Caucasus insurgency
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–PJAK conflict
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • Military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Saudi Arabian–Yemeni border conflict

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

2020 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

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

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain