2020s

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COVID-19
6 January
Fall of Kabul
Wildfires
George Floyd
Hong Kong national security law
#MeToo
Israel-Palestine
Clockwise from upper left: Scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 (center, yellow), the virus that causes COVID-19, which became a global pandemic starting in the year 2020; protesters gathered on 6 January 2021 during the 2021 United States Capitol attack, which led to the second impeachment of President Donald Trump seven days later; smoke from a 2020 California wildfire settles over the San Francisco Bay Area, showing the severity of the 2020–2021 wildfire seasons that occurred in different parts around the globe and were worsened in part by global climate change; protester holding a liberate Hong Kong banner during the Hong Kong protests in 2020, shortly after the passing of the HKSAR national security law; the al-Jalaa media building in Gaza City is destroyed by Israli Forces during the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis; art installation in Frankfurt calling for the end of violence against women as part of the growing international Me Too movement; a man stands on top of a destroyed car in Minneapolis amid protests against the Murder of George Floyd in May 2020, which significantly intensified the Black Lives Matter movement worldwide; US, UK and Turkish soldiers assist a child fleeing Afghanistan out of Kabul Airport after the Taliban takes control during the Fall of Kabul in August 2021, marking the end of the 20-year War in Afghanistan
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The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties"; shortened to '20s[1][2]) is the current decade of the Gregorian calendar, which began on 1 January 2020 and will end on 31 December 2029.

Shortly after the decade began, the COVID-19 pandemic started to rapidly spread around the world, and would cause the most severe worldwide disruption and death since World War II, all while global ecological crises continue to escalate.

The private space race greatly accelerated in the early 2020s, with several companies advancing their international and multinational efforts to privatize spaceflight as a commercial industry.

The War in Afghanistan ended with a peace treaty between the United States and the Taliban that resulted in the withdrawal of US troops and a Taliban offensive that turned that country back into an Islamic emirate.

The arbitrary detention of Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang during the Uyghur genocide continued into the 2020s, resulting in one of the worst human rights abuses since World War II. The Philippine drug war also continued into the 2020s, which at the beginning of the decade had resulted in 193,086 arrests and over 5,000 deaths during police operations in that country since 2016.

Politics and conflicts[]

Main article: 2020s in political history

Conflicts and peace[]

Main article: List of wars: 2003–present

The prominent wars of the decade include:

International wars[]

Name Start date End date hideDescription
Israeli–Palestinian conflict 1948 Ongoing The conflict between Jewish and Arab communities in Israel and the West Bank has been ongoing since 1948.[3] After Israel took control of the West Bank, it began making settlements there, which led to heightened clashes to this day.[4]
Kurdish-Turkish conflict 27 November 1978 Ongoing Numerous Kurdish groups, including the Kurdistan Workers' Party (the PKK) have fought for an independent Kurdistan incorporating parts of Turkey. In 2016, Turkey has occupied parts of Northern Syria and in 2019, invaded Kurdish-held areas of Northern Syria. In 2020, Turkey launched an insurgency in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war
 February 1988 Ongoing The region of Karabakh has been disputed over the Republic of Artsakh, which is supported by the Armenian government. A ceasefire was held in 1994. In July 2020, a series of border skirmishes left at least 15 dead. From 27 September until 10 November 2020, a second war broke out in the region.
War on terror 11 September 2001
  • 7 October 2001
  • 20 March 2003
 Ongoing
  • 30 August 2021
  • Ongoing
 Motivated by the September 11 attacks, the United States and other governments started a large scale effort to eliminate terrorism.[5] With support from NATO, the United States invaded Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and overthrew the government, however remained in the country to stabilise the situation.[6] Two years later, on the pretext that the government of Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,[7] the United States and a coalition of partners invaded Iraq and overthrew Hussein's regime,[8] after which the U.S. occupied the country, officially leaving in 2011.[9] However, insurgencies remained active in both countries, long after the invasions.[10]
Russian military intervention in Ukraine 20 February 2014 Ongoing After the fall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Russian soldiers took control of strategic positions in the Ukrainian territory of Crimea and subsequently annexed the region after a controversial referendum.[11] In the months that followed, demonstrations in Donbass escalated into an armed conflict between the government of Ukraine and Russia-backed separatist forces.
Military intervention against ISIL 13 June 2014 Ongoing In late-2013, a terrorist organisation called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant began making rapid advances and territorial gains in Iraq and Syria. It captured Mosul in June[12] and made Raqqa its capital.[13] Various international coalitions were formed to help fight the militants.[14][15] By December 2017, ISIL had lost much of its former territory.
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen 26 March 2015 Ongoing During the Yemeni Civil War, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries part of a coalition invaded parts of Yemen in order to depose the Houthi-controlled government.
Turkish occupation of northern Syria 24 August 2016 Ongoing During the Syrian Civil War, Turkey invaded parts of northern Syria in order to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Syrian Democratic Forces, and the PKK.

Civil wars[]

Name Start date End date hideDescription
War in Darfur 26 February 2003 Ongoing
Mexican drug war 11 December 2006 Ongoing Following a rise in criminal violence as a result of drug trafficking in the country, Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared a war on drugs in December 2006.[16] Since the start of the war, the death toll from drug violence had sharply increased.[17] Arrests of key cartel leaders led to increasing violence as cartels fought for control of trafficking routes into the United States.[18][19][20]
War in Somalia 31 January 2009 Ongoing In 2009, Al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant group, began waging an insurgency against the newly formed Transitional Federal Government. In 2011, the federal government captured Mogadishu[21] and subsequently retook several towns across the country.[22] Since then, the government has attempted to clean out the remaining Al-Shabaab strongholds with help from AMISOM soldiers.[23]
Mali War 16 January 2012 Ongoing In January 2012, a rebellion by Tuaregs in Northern Mali began. After Malian president Amadou Toumani Touré was ousted in a coup d'état, Tuaregs captured Northern Mali,[24] and declared it to be the independent state of Azawad.[25] However, shortly afterward, various Islamists groups took over Northern Mali from the Tuaregs and imposed sharia law on the region.[26]
South Sudanese Civil War 15 December 2013 22 February 2020
Second Libyan Civil War 16 May 2014 23 October 2020 Following the factional violence that engulfed Libya after the fall of Muammar al-Gaddafi, a second civil war broke out among rival factions seeking control of the territory and oil of Libya. The conflict at the beginning was mostly between the House of Representatives (HoR) government that was controversially elected in 2014, also known as the "Tobruk government"; and the rival General National Congress (GNC) government, also called the "National Salvation Government", based in the capital Tripoli, established after Operation Odyssey Dawn and the failed military coup.
Yemeni Civil War 19 March 2015 Ongoing Preceded by a decade-long Houthi insurgency,[27] the Yemeni Civil War began between two factions: the then-incumbent Yemeni government, led by Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and the Houthi militia, along with their supporters and allies. Both claim to constitute the Yemeni government.[28]
Philippine drug war 30 June 2016 Ongoing Following a rise in criminal violence as a result of drug trafficking in the country, the Philippines has been engaged in a drug war since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was inaugurated on 30 June 2016. It has caused 3,000 deaths.[29]
Iraqi insurgency 9 December 2017 Ongoing A part of the larger Iraqi conflict that has been waged since 2003, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has been engaged in an insurgency against the Iraqi government and CJTF-OIR since the loss of territorial control in the Iraqi Civil War in 2017.
Main article: List of protests in the 21st century

Nuclear proliferation[]

Terrorist attacks[]

Main article: List of terrorist incidents § 1970–present

Note: To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism". They also must have 100 or more fatalities reported.

Political trends[]

Further information: 2020s in political history

International relations[]

Democracy[]

Deaths[]

Sitting leaders Idriss Déby of Chad, John Magufuli of Tanzania, Jovenel Moïse of Haiti, Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman all died in office.[30] Former world leaders who died were Hosni Mubarak,[31] Valery Giscard d'Estaing,[32] John Turner, Daniel arap Moi, Pranab Mukherjee, Kenneth Kaunda, Anerood Jugnauth, Amadou Toumani Touré, Jerry Rawlings, Mamadou Tandja, Tabaré Vázquez, Enrique Bolaños, Benigno Aquino III, Carlos Menem and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.

Prominent political events[]

Coups[]

Event Date Country hideRef.
2020 Malian coup d'état 18 August 2020  Mali
Myanmar coup d'état 1 February 2021  Myanmar
Armenian coup d'état attempt 25 February 2021  Armenia
Nigerien coup d'état attempt 31 March 2021  Niger
2021 Malian coup d'état 24 May 2021  Mali
2021 Guinean coup d'état 5 September 2021  Guinea

Africa[]

Further information: Category:2020s in Africa, 2020 in West Africa, 2020 in North Africa, 2020 in Middle Africa, 2020 in East Africa, and 2020 in Southern Africa
Event Country Date Description hideReferences

Americas[]

Further information: Category:2020s in North America and Category:2020s in South America
Event Country Date Description hideReferences
First impeachment of Donald Trump United States 24 September 2019 – 5 February 2020 Under Article I, Section 3, Clause 6, of the U.S. Constitution, President Donald Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on 18 December 2019 by the United States House of Representatives. The United States Senate trial began on 16 January 2020 and ended on 5 February 2020, concluding with an acquittal on both charges. [33]
George Floyd protests United States 25 May 2020 – 2021 Protests and riots due to the murder of George Floyd spread throughout the US and lasted many months. The stated goal was to end systemic racism and police brutality. These protests and riots caused more than $1 billion in damage.
2020 United States presidential election and subsequent events United States 3 November 2020 – 13 February 2021 The 59th United States presidential election was held on 3 November 2020. Democrat and former Vice-President Joe Biden defeated Republican and then-incumbent President Donald Trump, with the Electoral College formally declaring Biden the winner on 14 December 2020.[34] Trump refused to concede, and filed lawsuits challenging the results in several states,[35] though most of the legal challenges were either dismissed or dropped, with judges citing lack of evidence to suggest voter fraud occurred.[36][37] Trump had also unsuccessfully attempted to undo the election results by forcing government officials to stop Pennsylvania,[38] Nevada,[39] Arizona,[40] Wisconsin,[41] Michigan,[42] and Georgia[43] from certifying Biden as the winner,[44] and urging his supporters to "walk" to the United States capitol to demand Trump be declared the winner of the election.[45] This was one of the reasons for the decision of a group of his supporters to gather in Washington, D.C on 6 January 2021 and break into the Capitol building during a Joint session of Congress.[46][47] The insurrection against the United States Capitol disrupted Congress while certifying the election, forcing both chambers to undergo lockdown lasting for four hours. On the same day, Trump coerced then-incumbent Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election results to which Pence refused.[44] During the insurrection, Trump tweeted directly to his supporters falsely claiming Congress was attempting to assist in stealing the election. Twitter responded by suspending Trump's account permanently following Trump's tweet.[48] Facebook,[49] Instagram, YouTube,[50] and Snapchat[51] all also suspended Trump from using their platforms worrying his posts may incite additional violence to the Capitol attacks. In relation to this, Trump was impeached for the second time by the House of Representatives and became the first U.S. President to be impeached twice.[52] Meanwhile, Joe Biden was sworn in as the United States President on 20 January 2021.[53] The impeachment trial ended on 13 February 2021, one month after its start. Trump was found not guilty of inciting the Storming of the Capitol.[54]
8th Congress of the Communist Party Cuba 16–19 April 2021 At the 8th Congress of the Communist Party, Raúl Castro officially resigned as the First Secretary, the most powerful position in Cuba.[55] Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is officially named First Secretary of the Communist Party following the resignation of Raúl Castro. He is the first person not of the Castro family to hold the top position since the 1959 Cuban revolution.[56]

Asia[]

Further information: Category:2020s in Asia
Event Country Date Description hideReference
2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis Iran United States 5 May 2019 The Persian Gulf region saw tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran escalate in mid-2019. The crisis saw oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz sabotaged and seized, drone shootdowns, and efforts by the U.S. and United Kingdom to pursue military patrols to protect shipping in the gulf, known as the International Maritime Security Construct. On 31 December 2019 tensions reached a breaking point as Iranian-backed Shiite militia stormed into the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, leading to the targeted killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike on 3 January 2020. [57][58][59]
2020–2021 China–India skirmishes China India 5 May 2020 Since 5 May 2020, Chinese and Indian troops have engaged in aggressive melee, face-offs and skirmishes at locations along the Sino-Indian border, including near the disputed Pangong Lake in Ladakh and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and near the border between Sikkim and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Additional clashes also took place at locations in eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). [60]
2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war Armenia Azerbaijan 27 September 2020 Starting on 27 September fierce clashes erupted along the line of contact between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Joint Artsakh and Armenian forces. Both sides neglected ceasefire demands from France, Russia and the US and continued fighting with claims from both sides that they are prepared to fight a long war to grapple control over the long contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. On 9 November a Russian-brokered peace treaty was signed by both sides.[61][62] [63]
2021 Israel–Palestine crisis Israel State of Palestine 6–21 May 2021
2021 Taliban offensive Afghanistan 1 May 2021–15 August 2021 Beginning on 1 May 2021, the Taliban and allied militant groups made a final offensive against the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and its allies, coinciding with the withdrawal of most United States and allied troops from Afghanistan. It resulted in the de facto takeover of the country and the reinstatement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, ending the twenty-year long War in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021.

Europe[]

Further information: Category:2020s in Europe
Event Country Date Description hideReferences
Brexit United Kingdom 31 January 2020 The United Kingdom and Gibraltar formally withdrew from the European Union at 11PM (GMT). [64]

World leaders[]

2020 – 2021

Assassinations and attempts[]

Further information: List of assassinations

Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include:

Date hideDescription
3 January 2020 Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general, and leader in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, was killed in a United States airstrike near Baghdad International Airport.[65]
27 November 2020 Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a senior official in the nuclear program in Iran, was killed by explosive trucks that ambushed him near Tehran.[66]
22 February 2021 Luca Attanasio, Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was killed by an armed commando.[67]
6 May 2021 Attempted assassination of Mohamed Nasheed
1 June 2021 Attempted assassination of Katumba Wamala
7 July 2021 Assassination of Jovenel Moïse, President of Haiti, by gunmen at his private residence.

Disasters[]

Non-natural disasters[]

Aviation[]

Event Date Country hideDescription
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 8 January 2020 Iran Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down shortly after take-off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Tehran, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who claimed to have mistaken it for a cruise missile. All 176 people on board were killed.[68]
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 22 May 2020 Pakistan Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashed into a neighborhood in Karachi while attempting to land, killing 97 of the 99 people on board plus 1 person on the ground.[69]
Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 9 January 2021 Indonesia Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, killing all 62 people on board.

General[]

Event Date Country hideDescription
2020 Beirut explosion 4 August 2020 Lebanon Massive explosion occurred in the port of Beirut. Reportedly, the blast was so loud that it was even claimed to be heard in Cyprus, which is 240 km from the location of the explosion.[70] The windows of major buildings in a 6-mile radius were shattered and roads were filled with debris. According to initial findings, it was estimated that a warehouse with 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded, which was confiscated by the Lebanese government from the abandoned ship MV Rhosus and then stored in the port without proper safety measures for six years.[71] There had been confirmed 220 deaths, more than 110 people were missing and at least more than 7,000 were reported injured.[72] Beirut governor Marwan Abboud estimated that up to 300,000 people were left homeless by the explosions and there was a US$10–15 billion in property damage.
Surfside condominium collapse 24 June 2021 United States A 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed. As of 22 July 2021, a total of 98 people are confirmed to have died, while 11 were injured.[73] One person was rescued from the rubble and about 35 people were rescued on 24 June from the uncollapsed portion of the building, which was demolished 11 days later as a safety precaution due to the approach of Hurricane Elsa. On 7 July, authorities announced that the objective of the search was transitioning from rescue to recovery, and that the missing victims are presumed dead.

Marine[]

Event Date Country hideDescription

Natural disasters[]

See also: Category:2020s natural disasters

Earthquakes and tsunamis[]

Main articles: List of earthquakes in 2020 and List of earthquakes in 2021

Note: This table is a chronological list of earthquakes reported with 7.5Mw  or greater or that have reported at least 100 fatalities.

Event Date Country hideDescription
2020 Caribbean earthquake 28 January 2020 Caribbean Sea A 7.7Mw  struck in the Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and Cuba at 14:10 local time on 28 January 2020. The earthquake was also felt in the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Dominican Republic, and the Cayman Islands. No damages were reported. A small (12.2 cm) tsunami was reported in the Cayman Islands.[74][75]
2020 Aegean Sea earthquake 30 October 2020 Greece Turkey A 7.0 Mw  earthquake occurred about 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of the Greek island of Samos, causing 119 deaths.[76]
2021 West Sulawesi earthquake 15 January 2021 Indonesia A 6.2 Mw  earthquake struck the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi, killing a minimum of 105 people.[77]
2021 Haiti earthquake 14 August 2021 Haiti A 7.2 Mw  earthquake struck Haiti on 14 August 2021, resulting in at least 2,207 deaths.[78]

Tropical cyclones[]

Event Date Country hideDescription
Cyclone Amphan 16–21 May 2020 Bangladesh Bhutan India Sri Lanka Myanmar 118 people were killed and millions made homeless in the strongest storm in two decades. Damage was estimated at US$13.2 billion.[79]
Hurricane Laura 20–29 August 2020 Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, Gulf Coast of the United States, Midwestern United States 77 people were killed and thousands made homeless during one of the strongest storms to make landfall in the United States. Damages estimated at US$19.1 billion.[80][81]
Typhoon Vamco (Ulysses) 8–15 November 2020 Philippines Vietnam Laos Thailand Cambodia 102 people were killed, and the typhoon contributed to the 2020 Central Vietnam Floods. Damages totaled up to US$440.8 million.
Hurricane Eta and Hurricane Iota 31 October–18 November 2020 Nicaragua Honduras A total of 278+ people were killed during both Hurricane Eta and Hurricane Iota in Nicaragua and Honduras. Damages totaled up to US$9.3 billion from both hurricanes.
Hurricane Ida 26 August-4 September 2021 United States 95 people were killed in the United States. Damages totaled up to US$50 billion.

Tornadoes[]

Event Date Country hideDescription

Floods, avalanches, and mudslides[]

Note: This section reports only floods with 200 or more deaths and avalanches and landslides involving 30 or more deaths.

Event Date Country hideDescription
2020 Van avalanches 4–5 February 2020 Turkey Two avalanches in Turkey's eastern Van Province resulted in 41 deaths and 84 injuries.
2021 European floods 12 July 2021 – Ongoing Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Romania Switzerland United Kingdom
2021 Henan floods 17 July 2021 – 31 July 2021 China
2021 Maharashtra floods 22 July 2021 – Ongoing India

Volcanic eruptions[]

Event Date Country hideDescription
2020–2021 Taal Volcano eruptions 12 January 2020 – 9 July 2021 Philippines On 12 January the Taal Volcano in the Philippines erupted at VEI 4 intensity, bringing intense ashfall to the surrounding areas and killing at least 3 people.[citation needed]

Droughts, heat waves, and wildfires[]

Main page: Category:2020s wildfires
Event Date Country hideDescription
2018–2021 Southern African drought October 2018 – Ongoing South Africa An ongoing period of drought began in the country of South Africa in late October 2018 and continued into early 2021, negatively affecting food security in the region.
2019–20 Australian bushfire season June 2019 – May 2020 Australia Unusually intense bushfires in Australia continued into 2020, having started in September 2019.[82]
2020 Western U.S. Wildfires March 2020 – December 2020 United States Record-breaking wildfires began in several Western American states.
2020–21 Argentine wildfires July 2020 – Ongoing Argentina Sudden wildfires started in Córdoba and extended into several Northern provinces.
2021 Russia heatwave May 2021 – June 2021 Russia Parts of Russia and eastern Europe were hit by a record-breaking heat wave in May and June 2021, with temperatures in the Arctic Circle above 30°C and the highest temperatures recorded in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
2021 Western North America heat wave June 2021 – July 2021 Canada United States Extreme temperatures caused by a prolonged heat dome over western Canada and United States kills over 613 people including over 480 people in British Columbia alone. The village of Lytton, British Columbia, which recorded the highest temperatures in Canada, is destroyed by a large wildfire as over 200 other ones devastate wide areas of the province. Wildfires in parts of the western coastal states of the US such as Washington, Oregon and California are also greatly worsened by the heat wave.
2021 Turkish wildfires July 2021 – August 2021 Turkey Over a hundred wildfires began in the Mediterranean Region of the forest in Turkey, the worst in the country for at least a decade. The wildfires started in Manavgat, Antalya on 28 July 2021, with the temperature around 37 °C (99 °F).
2020–21 North American drought August 2020 – Ongoing United States Canada Mexico Drought developed in the Western, Midwestern and Northeastern United States in the summer of 2020. Over the course of 2021, conditions improved in the Northeast but worsened in the Western US. As of June 2021, 97% of the region was facing abnormally dry conditions. By August 2021, parts of the upper Midwestern US were experiencing some of the worst drought spells since the 1980s. Drought also affected a wide area of Mexico as of 2021, as well as the prairies of Canada.

Other natural events[]

In 2020, a huge swarm of desert locusts threatened to engulf massive portions of the Middle East, Africa and Asia.[83][84] In tandem with the COVID-19 pandemic, the swarms posed major hazards to billions of people who might be affected by famine brought on by the locusts. Although experts had thought the insects would die out during the dry season in December 2019, unseasonal rains caused the incursion to reach unanticipated and hazardous levels.[85][86][87][88]

Economics[]

Main article: 2020s in economic history
See also: List of countries by Human Development Index, List of countries by GDP (nominal), and List of countries by GDP (PPP)

2020

  • The Brexit withdrawal agreement went into effect at the end of January 2020 with the UK completing its economic withdrawal from the EU at the end of that year.[89][90]
  • The United States, Mexico, and Canada signed the USMCA agreement, which came into effect on 1 July 2020.[91][92]

2021

  • African Continental Free Trade Area, encompassing 54 of the African Union states comes into effect, the largest in the world
  • Ever Given, large container ship, runs aground in Suez Canal causing massive disruption of global trade
  • In 2021, El Salvador became the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, after the Legislative Assembly votes 62–84 to pass a bill submitted by President Nayib Bukele classifying the cryptocurrency as such.[93]

Trade[]

The World Trade Organization reported that trade growth had stagnated and that trade restrictions were increasing as the decade began. The sectors most affected by import restrictions were mineral and fuel oils (17.7%), machinery and mechanical appliances (13%), electrical machinery and parts (11.7%), and precious metals (6%).[94] Regional trade agreements were found to be increasing.[95]

Stock markets[]

Crashes[]

Event Date Country hideRef.
2020 stock market crash 20 February 2020 – 7 April 2020 Global

Cybersecurity and hacking[]

See also: Category:Hacking in the 2020s
Event Date hideDescription
2020 Twitter account hijacking 15 July 2020 Multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, each with millions of followers, were compromised in a cyberattack to promote a bitcoin scam.[96]
Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack 6 May 2021 Colonial Pipeline in Texas suffers debilitating ransomeware cyberattack by Russian online group DarkSide causing substantial shortages in Southeastern USA

Health[]

Pandemics[]

Event Date Infections and deaths hideDescription
COVID-19 pandemic 2019 – present 225.6 million+ confirmed cases and 4.64 million+ deaths with more than 240 countries and territories reported by 13 September 2021.[97]
HIV/AIDS 1981 – present 37.9 million people living with HIV (end of 2018), 24.5 million people accessing antiretroviral therapy (end of June 2019), 32.0 million deaths from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic (end 2018)[98]

Science and technology[]

2020s in science
  • 2020
  • 2021 in science

Fields

Archaeology: 2020 2021

Paleontology: 2020 2021


Space: 2020 2021

Spaceflight: 2020 2021

Biotechnology: 2020 2021

Quantum IT: 2020 2021

Computing: 2020s


Environment and environmental sciences: 2020 2021

Climate change: 2020 2021

Related

Philosophy: 2020 2021
History of technology by type
List of science timelines

Main article: 2020s in science and technology

Space[]

See also: 2020s in spaceflight

2020

  • Space company SpaceX sent two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on 30 May 2020, marking the first time a private company completed a crewed orbital spaceflight mission.
  • NASA launched the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter drone on 30 July 2020 as part of their Mars 2020 mission to search for signs of ancient life on Mars.[99] On 19 April 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter drone performed the first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on a planet other than Earth.[100]
  • The Royal Astronomical Society announced the detection of phosphine gas in Venus' atmosphere on 14 September 2020, which is known to be a strong predictor for the presence of microbial life.[101]

2021

  • China sends Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo to assemble and then occupy and work aboard the Tiangong Space Station
  • On 11 July 2021, Virgin Galactic became the first spaceflight company to independently launch a paying civilian into outer space using the 50 mile high definition of outer space, having flown Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson above the 50 mile mark, enabling him and the rest of the crew to experience approximately 3 minutes of weightlessness above Earth’s atmosphere.
  • In July 2021, Blue Origin became the first spaceflight company to launch a fully automated spacecraft with civilian passengers into space, carrying its founder Jeff Bezos and a three others. Two of the flight's crew members, Dutch student Oliver Daemen and American aviator Wally Funk, became both the youngest and oldest people respectively to go to space.

Artificial Intelligence[]

  • Deepmind solves the protein folding problem to 90 percent accuracy, a 50-year-old grand challenge, at CASP14 in 2020.[102][103]

Communications and electronics[]

  • 5G became increasingly widespread in 2020.

Software and electronic platforms[]

  • Support for Adobe Flash Player ended on 31 December 2020.

Society[]

Main article: 2020s in social history

Social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic[]

Main article: Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Medical experts advised, and local authorities often mandated stay-at-home orders to prevent gatherings of any size. Such gatherings could be replaced by teleconferencing, or in some cases with unconventional attempts to maintain social distancing with activities such as a balcony sing-along for a concert, or a "birthday parade" for a birthday party. Replacements for gatherings were seen as significant to mental health during the crisis. Social isolation among alcohol users also adopted a trend towards Kalsarikänni or "pantsdrunking", a Finnish antisocial drinking culture.

Low-income individuals were more likely to contract the coronavirus and to die from it. In both New York City and Barcelona, low-income neighborhoods were disproportionately hit by coronavirus cases. Hypotheses for why this was the case included that poorer families were more likely to live in crowded housing and work in the low-skill jobs, such as supermarkets and elder care, which were deemed essential during the crisis. In the United States, millions of low-income people may lack access to health care due to being uninsured or underinsured. Millions of Americans lost their health insurance after losing their jobs. Many low-income workers in service jobs became unemployed.

The coronavirus pandemic was followed by a concern for a potential spike in suicides, exacerbated by social isolation due to quarantine and social-distancing guidelines, fear, and unemployment and financial factors. Many countries reported an increase in domestic violence and intimate partner violence attributed to lockdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial insecurity, stress, and uncertainty led to increased aggression at home, with abusers able to control large amounts of their victims' daily life. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a domestic violence "ceasefire".

Population[]

  • The population of Egypt reached 100 million in February 2020.[104]

Race[]

The murder of George Floyd led to many protest and riots across the United States and internationally in 2020. The stated goal of the protest has been to end police brutality and racial inequality, and is closely linked with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Gender[]

See also: Women in government

24.3% of all national parliamentarians were women as of February 2019. 11 women were serving as Head of State and 12 as Head of Government in June 2019. 20.7% of government ministers were women as of January 2019.[105] Katerina Sakellaropoulou became the first female president of Greece in January 2020, and Kamala Harris became the first female Vice President of the United States in 2021.[106]

There are wide regional variations in the average percentages of women parliamentarians. As of February 2019, these were: Nordic countries, 42.5%; Americas, 30.6%; Europe excluding Nordic countries, 27.2; sub-Saharan Africa, 23.9; Asia, 19.8%; Arab States, 19%; and the Pacific, 16.3%. Rwanda has the highest number of women parliamentarians worldwide, 61.3% of seats in the lower house. About 26% of elected local parliamentarians are women.[105]

Environmentalism[]

The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season devastated the environment of Australia.

LGBT rights[]

  • A law allowing third gender option on driver licenses took effect in New Hampshire.[107]
  • Switzerland banned discrimination based on sexuality based on a referendum, putting into effect a law previously introduced in 2018, that was subsequently blocked by the government that requested a referendum to be held on the matter first.[108]
  • In Northern Ireland, the first same-sex marriage, after legislation to allow this took effect in January 2020.[109][110]
  • In Costa Rica, same-sex marriage and joint adoption by same-sex couples became legal on 26 May 2020.
  • In the United States, the Supreme Court ruled that job discrimination against workers for their sexual orientation or gender identity is illegal.
  • The Trump Administration passed a law on 12 June 2020 removing protections against discrimination from LGBTQ people in terms of health care and health insurance in the United States.[111] President Joe Biden reversed a policy enacted during the Trump administration which previously allowed healthcare companies to deny coverage to gay and transgender people on 10 May 2021.[112]
  • The Equality Act passed in the House of Representatives on 25 February 2021 in the United States.

Culture[]

  • Decorative masks. Wearing a face covering in settings such as shops, bars, airports, and on public transport has been mandatory in many countries in the early 2020s, in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).

  • The PlayStation 5 was released in 2020.

  • The Xbox Series X was also released at the beginning of the decade.

  • Popular singer Olivia Rodrigo visited the White House in mid-2021 in a push to normalize vaccine use for American youth. Pictured above is Rodrigo with President Joe Biden, the two of them putting on President Biden's signature aviator sunglasses.

  • The videosharing site TikTok became an influence to pop culture and music in the early 2020s.

  • By the 2020s foldable phones became retail available, though they were quite expensive in comparison to the standard phone, or the bulkier phone of the 2010s.

  • Due to the coronavirus pandemic of the 2020s, many movies were released on internet streaming instead of theaters during 2020. (Movies like The King Of Staten Island and Mulan, for example).

  • Singer The Weeknd became a global success in 2020 with his hit single, Blinding Lights.

  • Bright multi-colored clothing became a trend in the early 2020s, as did baggier, looser fitting clothing (in a rejection to the form-fitting 2010s fashion), as modeled here by Billie Eillish, one of the most popular musicians of the decade.

Fashion[]

Main article: 2020s in fashion

Fashion trends of the early 2020s have been largely inspired by the 2000s.[113][114][115] Wearing a decorative mask to prevent the disease COVID-19 from spreading was a fashion trend in the early 2020s.[116]

Film[]

Main article: 2020s in film

Several films and other upcoming movies were released exclusively on streaming platforms instead of in theatres, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 cases declined through 2021 and some restrictions were lifted, some films were released both in theatres and on streaming services.


Television[]

Main article: 2020s in television

The 2020s started off with the primary streaming services being Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Hulu and Disney+. Additional streaming services such as Discovery+, Paramount+, and Peacock were being developed as well. Cable television and satellite television continued to fall out of popularity, and were no longer as prevalent as they were once in the 2010s and decades prior. In the 2020s, reboots and reunion episodes of 1990s and 2000s shows became widespread, including Animaniacs, The Conners, Saved by the Bell, HBO Max's Friends: The Reunion and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air Reunion, Paramount+'s new Frasier, iCarly, and Rugrats. Streaming television such as Pluto TV become more popular.

Music[]

Charli D'Amelio, the most followed creator on TikTok
Main article: 2020s in music

By 2020, TikTok had become an extremely popular music platform on social media.[117] Streaming on platforms such as Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Music increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Festivals such as Coachella were cancelled because of the virus. The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the touring business.[118]

Pop, hip hop and R&B music dominated the early part of the decade, with the most popular artists being Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa, H.E.R., The Weeknd, Post Malone, Cardi B, Tyler the Creator, Lil Baby, BTS, Doja Cat, Olivia Rodrigo, Harry Styles, Bad Bunny, SZA, Travis Scott, Ed Sheeran, the Kid Laroi and more.[119] Country and pop country music also saw a continued resurgence in the United States from the past decade, with musicians like Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Chris Stapleton, Jason Aldean, Dan + Shay, Walker Hayes and Luke Bryan all experiencing commercial success in the early 2020s.[119]


Video games[]

Main article: 2020s in video games

The ninth generation of consoles began in 2020 with the release of the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. The video game Among Us surged in popularity online in 2020.

The Nintendo Switch continued to be popular among gamers. Animal Crossing: New Horizons had sold over 31 million copies on the Nintendo Switch,[120] making it the second-best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch. Its success has been attributed in part to its release amid global stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Architecture[]

Further information: Category:2020s architecture

The SoFi Stadium was completed on 8 September 2020 and is a component of Hollywood Park, a master planned neighborhood in development in Inglewood, California. The stadium serves as a home to the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers. SoFi Stadium is set to host Super Bowl LVI in February 2022.[121] The stadium is also set to host the opening and closing ceremonies, soccer and archery in the 2028 Summer Olympics, which will be hosted in Los Angeles, California, United States Of America.[122]

The Unity Tower was finally completed on 30 September 2020. The construction of the building originally started in 1975, but stopped permanently in 1981 because of economic constraints and political unrest at the time. Due to the unfinished building's resemblance to a skeleton, it was nicknamed after Skeletor, the arch-villain in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which was popular in Poland at the time construction began.[123]

Sports[]

Main articles: List of Olympic Games host cities and List of FIFA World Cup finals

2020

  • The COVID-19 pandemic leads to the cancellation or rescheduling of numerous sporting events globally:

The 2020 Summer Olympics was postponed to July-August of 2021. This was the first Olympic games to be postponed rather than cancelled in history. [124]

The 2020 T20 Cricket World Cup, originally scheduled to take place in Australia, rescheduled to occur in India in 2021

National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association and Premier League adapt their seasons and championship play around COVID-19 by placing players in "bubbles" and televising games played in empty arenas and stadiums

  • Liverpool FC, led by Jordan Henderson, wins first Premier League title in the team's history
  • Tampa Bay Lightning win second Stanley Cup championship during playoffs that were held in two "hub" cities, Toronto and Edmonton in Canada. It is the first time since 1925 that the Stanley Cup is contested entirely in Canada
  • Lewis Hamilton records most Formula One career wins

2021

  • COVID-19 pandemic: Due to cross-border restrictions, the NHL realigns its team divisions with all seven Canadian teams competing in their own division for the first time
  • With easing of COVID restrictions in the UK, the 2021 Wimbledon Championships are held with full attendances. Novak Djokovic wins the men's singles title, his 20th Grand Slam win equaling Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal's record
  • Hideki Matsuyama wins Masters, becoming first ever Japanese golfer to win a major golfing championship
  • The Milwaukee Bucks won their first NBA championship in 50 years and their second title overall, with Giannis Antetokounmpo named Finals MVP
  • Italy won UEFA Euro 2020 by defeating England 3–2 on penalties
  • Argentina wins Copa América
  • The 2020 Summer Olympics take place in Tokyo, Japan, being the country's fourth time hosting the games. The United States wins the most gold and overall medals, with China coming in second and host Japan coming third

Food[]

Food delivery apps such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, GrubHub and Just Eat Takeaway flourished due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[125] Indoor dining was also closed in many countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and upon re-opening the usage of QR Codes and other technologies in the restaurant industry increased compared to the 2010s to comply with pandemic restrictions.[126][127]

See also[]

Timeline[]

The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade:

2020 • 2021

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