2020 in Peru

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Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2020 Timeline of Peruvian history

Events in the year 2020 in Peru.

• 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)

Ongoing – The 2017–2021 Peruvian political crisis

• 26 January – Scheduled date for the 2020 Peruvian parliamentary election.

• 27 April – A prison riot at the Miguel Castro Castro prison in San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima left nine inmates dead.^[1]

• 22 August – 13 people are killed in a stampede when police raided at a nightclub in Los Olivos District.^[2][3]

• 18 September – Impeachment hearings for President Martín Vizcarra begin.^[4]

• January 4 – Walter Ormeño, footballer (b. 1926).^[5]
• January 9 – Pablo Macera, historian (b. 1929).^[6]
• January 19 – Dante Frasnelli Tarter, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1925).^[7]

• March 4 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, politician and diplomat (b. 1920).^[8]

• June 1 – Javier Alva Orlandini, politician, Vice President, President of the Senate (b. 1927).^[9]
• June 9 – Luis Repetto Málaga, museologist and cultural manager (b. 1953).^[10]

• July 1 – Santiago Manuin Valera, Awajún leader and Indigenous rights activist (b. 1957).^[11]

• August 10 – Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (b. 1935).^[12]
• August 12 – Gian Carlo Vacchelli, sports commentator and politician (b. 1981).^[13]
• August 14 – Moisés Mamani, politician (b. 1969).^[14]
• August 24 – Jorge Sanjinez Lenz, military volunteer (b. 1917).^[15]
• August 25 – Francisco Belaúnde, politician (b. 1923).^[16]

• September 14 – Alicia Maguiña, singer and composer (b. 1938).^[17]

• December 14 – Segundo Galicia Sánchez, professor and sociologist (b. 1938).^[18]

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