2020 in Peru
Events in the year 2020 in Peru.
Incumbents
- President:
- * Martín Vizcarra
- * Francisco Sagasti
- Prime Minister:
- * Vicente Zeballos
- * Pedro Cateriano
- * Walter Martos Ruiz
- * Violeta Bermúdez
Events
Ongoing – The 2017–2021 Peruvian political crisisJanuary
- 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.
- January 9 – Pablo Macera, historian.
- January 19 – Dante Frasnelli Tarter, Roman Catholic bishop.
March
- March 4 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, politician and diplomat.
June
- June 1 – Javier Alva Orlandini, politician, Vice President, President of the Senate.
- June 9 – Luis Repetto Málaga, museologist and cultural manager.
July
- July 1 – Santiago Manuin Valera, Awajún leader and Indigenous rights activist.
August
- August 10 – Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga.
- August 12 – Gian Carlo Vacchelli, sports commentator and politician.
- August 14 – Moisés Mamani, politician.
- August 24 – Jorge Sanjinez Lenz, military volunteer.
- August 25 – Francisco Belaúnde, politician.
September
- September 14 – Alicia Maguiña, singer and composer.
December
- December 14 – Segundo Galicia Sánchez, professor and sociologist.