2020 in Poland

Events during the year 2020 in Poland.

Incumbents

Events

1 January – Town rights of Czerwińsk nad Wisłą, Klimontów, Lututów and Piątek were restored.
February — local governments controlling a third of Poland officially declared themselves as "against "LGBT ideology" or passed "pro-family" Charters, pledging to refrain from encouraging tolerance or funding NGOs working for LGBT rights.
4 March — First first lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 in Poland involving a patient from Cybinka. Start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland.
18 March – Stelmet Zielona Góra won their fifth Polish Basketball Championship.
23 March – Vive Kielce won their 17th Polish Handball Championship.
6 July – President Duda signed a document with a presidential draft of the amendment to the Polish Constitution to ban gay adoption.
11 July – Legia Warsaw won their 14th Polish Football Championship.
12 July – Andrzej Duda is re-elected as the President of Poland.
25 July – Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro declared he would begin preparing the formal process for Poland to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention. He claimed the treaty is harmful because it "requires that schools teach children about gender in an ideological way" and that it "de-emphasizes biological sex".
6 October – Jarosław Kaczyński become deputy prime minister in the Mateusz Morawiecki government.
11 October – Unia Leszno won their 18th Team Speedway Polish Championship defeating Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski in the finals.
22 October – Poland's constitutional court rules abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional.
21 November – Deepspot, the deepest swimming pool in the world at that time, opens in Mszczonów.
7 December – stated-owned petroleum refinery and distributor PKN Orlen acquired media and press company "Polska Press" controlling large number of regional media portals and several regional newspapers.

Holidays

1 January - New Year's Day
6 January - Epiphany
12 April - Easter Sunday
13 April - Easter Monday
1 May - May Day
3 May - 3 May Constitution Day
31 May - Whit Sunday
11 June - Corpus Christi
15 August - Assumption Day
1 November - All Saints' Day
11 November - Independence Day
25 December - Christmas Day
26 December – 2nd Day of Christmas

Deaths

January

2 January – Bogusław Polch, comic book artist.
17 January
*Lech Raczak, theatre director.
*Stanislaw Stefanek, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Łomża.

July

6 July
*Zdzisław Myrda, Olympic basketball player.
*Marta Stebnicka, actress.
10 July – Anna Stroka, literary historian, author and translator.

August

4 August – Jan Strelau, psychologist.
5 August – Stefan Majer, basketball player and coach.
10 August – Dariusz Baliszewski, historian, journalist and writer.
14 August – Ewa Demarczyk, singer and poet.
18 August – Wojciech Karpiński, writer and historian of ideas.
22 August – Józefa Hennelowa, journalist and politician.

September

1 September – Jerzy Szczakiel, speedway rider.
5 September – Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins.

October

17 October – Ryszard Ronczewski, actor.
18 October – Stanisław Kogut, politician and trade union activist.
19 October – Wojciech Pszoniak, actor.
20 October – Bogdan Józef Wojtuś, Roman Catholic prelate.

December

1 December – Hanna Stadnik, Polish resistance veteran and activist.