Portal:Current events/December 2020/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Business

• COVID-19 recession
• FinCEN Files leak

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2020–21 European windstorm season
• 2020 H5N8 outbreak
• 2019–20 locust infestation
• 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2020 Pacific typhoon season
• 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
• 2020 wildfire season
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Armenian protests
• Belarusian protests
• Bulgarian protests
• Chilean protests
• Hong Kong protests
• Indian farmers protests
• Indonesia omnibus law protests
• Kashmir lock-down
• Libyan peace process
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Peruvian protests
• Philippine protests (timeline)
• Polish protests
• Post-Brexit diplomatic talks (trade negotiations)
• Second Arab Spring
• Sudanese protests
• Thai protests
• United States election protests
• United States racial unrest
• Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
• Yellow vests movement

Elections and referendums

Recent

• December
  • 27: Central African Republic, President (1st), National Assembly (1st)
  • 27: Niger, President (1st), National Assembly

Upcoming

• January
  • 10: Kazakhstan, Majilis
  • 10: Kyrgyzstan, President, Constitutional referendum
  • 14: Uganda, President (1st), Parliament

Trials

Recently concluded

• France: Charlie Hebdo shooting
• Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos

Ongoing

• Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
• France: Nicolas Sarkozy
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Bárcenas affair, 2017 Catalonia attacks
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Indonesia: Edhy Prabowo, Juliari Batubara, Muhammad Rizieq Shihab
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
• Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
• Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
• Spain: Jordi Pujol
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell, Steve Bannon
• Vanuatu: Charlot Salwai
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • 2020–21 Premier League
  • 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
  • 2020 Copa Libertadores
  • 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage
  • 2020–21 UEFA Europa League group stage
• Women's association football
  • 2020–21 Champions League
  • 2020–21 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2020–21 FA WSL
• American football
  • 2020 NFL season
  • 2020 NCAA Division I FBS
• Baseball
  • 2021 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2020–21 NBA season
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
• Golf
  • 2020–21 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2020–21 KHL season
  • 2020–21 NHL season
• Motorsport
  • 2020 Formula One Championship
  • 2020 Rally Championship
• Rugby union
  • 2020–21 Premiership Rugby
  • 2020–21 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Other sports seasons
  • 2020–21 international cricket season
  • 2020–21 snooker season
  • 2020–21 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

December 2020

• 30: Samuel Little
• 30: Alto Reed
• 30: Dawn Wells
• 29: Claude Bolling
• 29: Pierre Cardin
• 29: Joe Louis Clark
• 29: Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio
• 29: Elaine McCoy
• 29: John Paul Jr.
• 29: Howard J. Rubenstein
• 28: Fou Ts'ong
• 28: H. Jack Geiger
• 28: Armando Manzanero
• 27: William Link
• 26: George Blake
• 26: Brodie Lee
• 26: Jim McLean
• 26: Phil Niekro
• 25: Michael Alig
• 25: Soumaïla Cissé
• 25: Danny Hodge
• 25: K. C. Jones
• 25: Jamal Khwaja
• 24: Ivry Gitlis
• 23: James E. Gunn
• 23: Rebecca Luker
• 23: Frankie Randall
• 23: Sugathakumari
• 23: Leslie West
• 22: Muhammad Mustafa Mero
• 22: Stella Tennant
• 21: Kevin Greene
• 21: K. T. Oslin
• 21: Motilal Vora
• 20: Doug Anthony
• 20: Ezra Vogel
• 19: Shirley Abrahamson
• 19: David Giler
• 19: Rosalind Knight
• 19: Mekere Morauta
• 19: Leo Panitch
• 18: Aristóteles Sandoval
• 18: José Vicente Rangel
• 18: Òscar Ribas Reig
• 18: Michael Jeffery
• 18: Peter Lamont
• 18: Rahah Noah
• 17: Donato Bilancia
• 17: Jeremy Bulloch
• 17: Pierre Buyoya
• 17: Stanley Cowell
• 17: Hennadiy Kernes
• 17: Saufatu Sopoanga
• 17: Pelle Svensson
• 16: Awesome Again
• 16: Flavio Cotti
• 16: Leticia Lee
• 16: Lorenzo Taliaferro
• 15: Ungku Abdul Aziz
• 15: Anthony Casso
• 15: Donald Fowler
• 15: Bruce Seals
• 14: Herman Asaribab
• 14: Gérard Houllier
• 14: Roddam Narasimha
• 14: Paulo César dos Santos
• 14: Totilas
• 14: Huang Zongying
• 13: Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini
• 13: Nur Hossain Kasemi
• 12: John le Carré
• 12: Charley Pride
• 12: Ann Reinking
• 12: Ruhollah Zam
• 11: Kenneth Alwyn
• 11: Kim Ki-duk
• 10: Tommy Lister Jr.
• 10: Barbara Windsor
• 9: Paolo Rossi
• 9: Mohammad Yazdi
• 8: Harold Budd
• 8: Alejandro Sabella
• 8: Yevgeny Shaposhnikov
• 7: Dick Allen
• 7: Joselyn Cano
• 7: Chuck Yeager
• 6: Paul Sarbanes
• 6: Tabaré Vázquez
• 5: Peter Alliss
• 4: David Lander
• 4: James Odongo

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
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray conflict
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• 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
• Western Sahara
  • Western Sahara conflict
    • 2020 Western Saharan clashes

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
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion in the Philippines
  • Philippine Drug War
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Russia
  • Chechen–Russian conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russo-Ukrainian War

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • International military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Israel and Syria
  • Israeli-Syrian border conflict
• 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
  • Second Saudi–Yemeni War

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