2020 in Taiwan
Events from the year 2020 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 109 according to the official Republic of China calendar.
Incumbents
- President: Tsai Ing-wen
- [Vice President of the Republic of China|President of the Republic of China|Vice President]: Chen Chien-jen, Lai Ching-te
- Premier:
- * Su Tseng-chang
- Vice Premier:
- *Chen Chi-mai, Shen Jong-chin
Events
January
- 2 January – A Black Hawk helicopter of the Republic of China Air Force crashed. Eight people were killed, and five were injured.
- 11 January
- *2020 Taiwanese legislative election
- *Tsai Ing-wen is reelected in the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election with a record 8.17 million votes.
- 15 January – The Anti-infiltration Act takes effect.
- 19 January – The Taiwan Action Party Alliance disbands.
- 21 January – The index case of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Taiwan announced.
February
- 25 February – Special Act for Prevention, Relief and Revitalization Measures for Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens promulgated.
March
- 7 March – 2020 Kuomintang chairmanship election won by Johnny Chiang.
June
- 6 June – 2020 Kaohsiung mayoral recall vote removed mayor Han Kuo-yu from office.
July
- 25 July – The opening of Huannan Market in Wanhua District, Taipei.
August
- 30 August – Milos Vystrcil President of the Czech Senate arrived in Taiwan. It is the second high-profile visit by a foreign delegation to the island, after a visit by US Health Secretary Alex Azar who came was the first US cabinet official to visit Taiwan since 1979.
September
- 12 September – Chen Chi-mai won 2020 Kaohsiung mayoral by-election.
Deaths
- 2 January — Shen Yi-ming, 62, Taiwanese Air Force commander, Chief of the General Staff, helicopter crash.
- 7 January – Chang Chiu-hua, 83, Taiwanese politician, mayor of Miaoli, Miaoli County Magistrate, liver cancer.
- 2 February – Jimmy Chang, 69, Taiwanese chef.
- 15 February – Sheu Yu-jer, 67, Taiwanese economist and politician, Minister of Finance.
- 13 March – Yang Mu, 79, Taiwanese poet.
- 17 March –, 79, Taiwanese opera performer.
- 22 March – Serena Liu, 44, Taiwanese dancer, complications from heart surgery.
- 29 March –, 87, Taiwanese general and public official, traffic collision.
- 30 March – Hau Pei-tsun, 100, Taiwanese military officer and politician, Chief of the General Staff, Minister of National Defense, Premier, multiple organ failure.
- 21 April – Liu Ping-wei, 67, Taiwanese politician, MLY, oral cancer.
- 16 May – Chung Chao-cheng, 95, Taiwanese writer.
- 25 May – Wu Pong-fong, 55, Taiwanese actor and choreographer, stroke.
- 5 June – Ko Si-chi, 90, Taiwanese photographer.
- 6 June – Hsu Kun-yuan, Taiwanese politician, speaker of the Kaohsiung City Council, suicide by defenestration.
- 24 June – Ding-Shinn Chen, 76, Taiwanese hepatologist, pancreatic cancer.
- 2 July - Chiu Chuang-huan, 94, Taiwanese politician, Minister of the Interior, Vice Premier, President of the Examination Yuan.
- 7 July –, 56, Taiwanese technology executive, fall.
- 30 July – Lee Teng-hui, 97, Taiwanese politician, President, Vice President, Chairman of the Kuomintang, septic shock and multiple organ failure.
- 3 August – Luo Pei-ying, 59, Taiwanese actress.
- 16 September – Alien Huang, 36, Taiwanese singer, actor and television presenter, aortic dissection.
- 30 September – Mai Chia-je, 33, Taiwanese baseball player, traffic collision.
- 1 November – Chang Yi, 68, Taiwanese film director, co-founder of Liuli Gongfang.
- 7 November – Chung Laung Liu, 86, Chinese-born Taiwanese computer scientist.