2020 in Peru
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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).