Portal:Current events/February 2020/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Disasters

• 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic
• 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
• 2019–20 Australian bushfire season
• 2019–20 United Kingdom floods
• 2019–20 European windstorm season
• 2019–20 outbreak of coronavirus
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Algerian protests
• Bolivian protests
• Brexit
• Catalan protests
• Chilean protests
• European migrant crisis (timeline)
• Hong Kong protests
• Indian Citizenship Amendment Act protests (Shaheen Bagh)
• Iranian protests
• Iraqi protests
• Kashmir lockdown
• Lebanese protests
• Libyan peace process
• Maltese protests
• North East Delhi riots
• Qatar diplomatic crisis
• Rohingya persecution in Myanmar
• Turkish purges
• Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
• Xinjiang concentration camps
• Yellow vests movement

Religion

• Moscow–Constantinople schism

Sports

• NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal

More details – ongoing conflicts

Elections and referendums

Recent

• February
  • 21: Iran, Majlis
  • 22: Togo, President
  • 23: Comoros, Assembly of the Union (2nd)
  • 29: Slovakia, National Council

Upcoming

• March
  • 1: Tajikistan, Assembly of Representatives
  • 1: Guinea, Constitutional Referendum, National Assembly
  • 2: Israel, Knesset
  • 2: Guyana, National Assembly

Trials

Recently concluded

• Pakistan: Pervez Musharraf
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
• Spain: Quim Torra
• United States: Michael Avenatti, Harvey Weinstein
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Cambodia: Kem Sokha
• Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
• Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
• Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum, Benjamin Netanyahu
• Malaysia: Najib Razak
• Malta: Murder of Daphne Caruana
• Philippines: Leila de Lima, Maria Ressa, Marcos vs. Robredo electoral protest
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Bárcenas affair, Catalan police leadership
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal, Raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, 6ix9ine

Upcoming

• Guatemala: Álvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
• Japan: Carlos Ghosn
• Philippines: "Bikoy" videos sedition case
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Golden State Killer, Nikolas Cruz
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
  • 2019–20 UEFA Champions League
  • 2019–20 UEFA Europa League
  • 2019–20 La Liga
  • 2019–20 Premier League
  • 2019–20 Serie A
  • 2019–20 Bundesliga
  • 2019–20 Liga MX season
  • 2019–20 Ligue 1
  • 2019–20 Scottish Premiership
• Women's association football
  • 2019–20 Champions League
  • 2019–20 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2019–20 FA WSL
  • 2019–20 Frauen-Bundesliga
  • 2019–20 Liga MX Femenil
• American football
  • 2020 XFL season
• Basketball
  • 2019–20 EuroLeague
  • 2019–20 NBA season
  • 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
  • 2019–20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
• Golf
  • 2020 European Tour
  • 2020 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2019–20 NHL season
  • 2019–20 KHL season
• Rugby sevens
  • 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series
  • 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
  • 2019–20 international cricket season
  • 2019–20 curling season
  • 2019–20 figure skating season
  • 2019–20 snooker season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

February 2020

• 28: Joe Coulombe
• 28: Freeman Dyson
• 27: David Smith
• 26: Michael Medwin
• 25: Hosni Mubarak
• 24: Diana Serra Cary
• 24: Clive Cussler
• 24: John Franzese
• 24: Katherine Johnson
• 22: Kiki Dimoula
• 22: B. Smith
• 22: Simon Warr
• 21: Nick Cuti
• 21: Tao Porchon-Lynch
• 20: José Bonaparte
• 19: Heather Couper
• 19: José Mojica Marins
• 18: Ja'Net DuBois
• 17: Owen Bieber
• 17: Henry Gray
• 17: Charles Portis
• 17: Andrew Weatherall
• 16: Zoe Caldwell
• 16: Larry Tesler
• 15: Caroline Flack
• 15: A. E. Hotchner
• 14: Clayton Williams
• 13: Rajendra K. Pachauri
• 12: Frederick R. Koch
• 11: Marcelino dos Santos
• 9: Mirella Freni
• 8: Robert Conrad
• 7: Orson Bean
• 7: Li Wenliang
• 6: Jhon Jairo Velásquez
• 5: Stanley Cohen
• 5: Kirk Douglas
• 4: Claudio Bonadio
• 4: Daniel arap Moi
• 3: Gene Reynolds
• 3: George Steiner
• 2: Bernard Ebbers
• 2: Mike Moore
• 2: Salahuddin Wahid
• 2: Mad Mike Hoare
• 1: Andy Gill
• 1: Peter Serkin

January 2020

• 31: Mary Higgins Clark
• 30: John Andretti
• 30: Lucien Barbarin
• 30: Fred Silverman

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
  • ADF insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Libya
  • Second Civil War
  • American intervention in Libya
  • Turkish intervention in Libya
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Islamist insurgency in Mozambique
• 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 and Papua New Guinea
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • War in North-West Pakistan
  • Balochistan conflict
• 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
  • North Caucasus insurgency
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–PJAK conflict
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • Military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• 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
  • Saudi Arabian–Yemeni border conflict

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