Portal:Current events/September 2020/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Business

• COVID-19 recession
• FinCEN Files leak

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
• 2019–20 locust infestation
• 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2020 Pacific hurricane season
• 2020 Pacific typhoon season
• 2020 wildfire season
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Belarusian protests
• Bulgarian protests
• Chilean protests
• Colombian protests
• George Floyd protests (racial unrest)
• Hong Kong protests
• Iranian protests
• Iraqi protests
• Kashmir lockdown
• Khabarovsk Krai protests
• Lebanese protests
• Libyan peace process
• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Nicaraguan protests
• Philippine protests
• Post-Brexit diplomatic talks
• Sudanese protests
• Thai protests
• Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
• Yellow vests movement

Elections and referendums

Recent

• September
  • 20–21: Italy, Constitutional referendum
  • 24: Falkland Islands, Referendum
  • 27: Switzerland, Referendum

Upcoming

• October
  • 1: Bermuda, House of Assembly
  • 2–3: Czech Republic, Senate (1st)
  • 4: New Caledonia, Independence referendum
  • 4: Kyrgyzstan, Supreme Council
  • 7: Guernsey, States
  • 11: Tajikistan, President
  • 11: Northern Cyprus, President
  • 11: Lithuania, Parliament (1st)

Trials

Recently concluded

• Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai
• Malaysia: Najib Razak
• Slovakia: Marián Kočner
• Spain: Montano Morales
• Turkey: Remziye Tosun

Ongoing

• Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Colombia: Álvaro Uribe Velez
• Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Russia: Mikhail Yefremov
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Bárcenas affair
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United Kingdom: Julian Assange
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Hong Kong: Tam Tak-chi
• Japan: Carlos Ghosn
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi
• Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
• Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
• Spain: Jordi Pujol, 2017 Catalonia attacks
• 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 Major League Soccer season
  • UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
  • 2020 Copa Libertadores
  • 2020–21 UEFA Champions League qualifying round
  • 2020–21 UEFA Europa League qualifying round
• Women's association football
  • 2019–20 Champions League
  • 2019–20 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2019–20 FA WSL
  • 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup
• American football
  • 2020 NFL season
  • 2020 NCAA Division I FBS
• Baseball
  • 2020 MLB season
  • 2020 NPB season
• Basketball
  • 2020 NBA Finals
• Golf
  • 2020 European Tour
  • 2019–20 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs
  • 2019–20 KHL season
• Motorsport
  • 2020 Formula One Championship
  • 2020 NASCAR Cup Series
• Rugby sevens
  • 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
• Rugby union
  • 2019–20 European Rugby Champions Cup
  • 2019–20 Premiership Rugby
  • 2019–20 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Other sports seasons
  • 2020 AFL season
  • 2019–20 international cricket season
  • 2019–20 snooker season
  • 2020–21 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

September 2020

• 29: Mac Davis
• 29: Helen Reddy
• 29: Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
• 28: Frédéric Devreese
• 27: Mahbubey Alam
• 27: Kevin Burns
• 27: Jaswant Singh
• 27: Yūko Takeuchi
• 26: Nasser Sebaggala
• 25: Goran Paskaljević
• 24: Sekhar Basu
• 23: Harold Evans
• 23: Juliette Gréco
• 23: Gale Sayers
• 22: Road Warrior Animal
• 21: Ron Cobb
• 21: Tommy DeVito
• 21: Michael Lonsdale
• 20: Michael Chapman
• 19: Lee Kerslake
• 18: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• 18: John Turner
• 17: Robert W. Gore
• 17: Winston Groom
• 16: Alien Huang
• 15: Momčilo Krajišnik
• 15: Moussa Traoré
• 14: Bill Gates Sr.
• 14: Al Kasha
• 13: Sabit Brokaj
• 12: Navid Afkari
• 12: Aline Chrétien
• 12: Terence Conran
• 12: John Fahey
• 11: Agnivesh
• 11: Toots Hibbert
• 11: Christian Poncelet
• 10: Diana Rigg
• 9: Ronald Bell
• 9: George Bizos
• 9: Henrietta Boggs
• 8: Ronald Harwood
• 7: Abdul Qadir Bajamal
• 7: Sergey Koltakov
• 6: Kesavananda Bharati
• 6: Lou Brock
• 6: Kevin Dobson
• 6: Dragoljub Ojdanić
• 6: Mike Sexton
• 6: Kevin Zeese
• 5: Jiří Menzel
• 4: Joe Williams
• 3: Kathleen Byerly
• 3: Birol Ünel
• 2: Kang Kek Iew
• 2: Agustín Roberto Radrizzani
• 2: Adrianus Johannes Simonis
• 1: Erick Morillo

August 2020

• 31: Pranab Mukherjee
• 31: Tom Seaver

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
• Libya
  • Second Civil War
  • American intervention in Libya
  • Turkish intervention in Libya
• 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

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
• Georgia
  • Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
  • Georgian–Ossetian conflict
• Russia
  • Chechen–Russian conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russo-Ukrainian War

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai terror attacks
• 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