1980 in Liberia

Events in the year 1980 in Liberia.

Incumbents

 * President
 * William Tolbert (until April 12)
 * Samuel Doe (from April 14, as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council)
 * Vice President
 * Bennie Dee Warner (until April 12)
 * Thomas Weh Syen (from April 14, as Co-Chairman of the People's Redemption Council)
 * Chief Justice
 * James A. A. Pierre (until April 12)
 * Emmanuel Gbalazeh (after April 14)

Events

 * January 8 – The Progressive People's Party is registered.
 * March 10 – George Boley is arrested on charges of treason and sedition.
 * March 28 – The oppositional Progressive People's Party is banned by an act of the Legislature of Liberia.
 * March 31 – Liberia establishes diplomatic ties with Ecuador.
 * April 12 – 1980 Liberian coup d'état
 * President William Tolbert is assassinated following an attack led by seventeen members of the Armed Forces of Liberia on the Executive Mansion.
 * The Liberian Constitution of 1847 is suspended.
 * George Boley is released from prison.
 * April 14 – The People's Redemption Council is established, with Samuel Doe as its chairman, and head of state of Liberia.
 * April 22 – The Doe regime executes five of President Tolbert's cabinet ministers and eight former Liberian officials by firing squad.
 * April 30 – Former Vice President Bennie Dee Warner announces the formation of a government-in-exile in Ivory Coast with the intention of overthrowing the Doe regime.
 * August 26 – Doe leaves to visit Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in his first international visit since his taking power.
 * Full date unknown
 * Matilda Newport Day is abolished.
 * Liberia establishes formal diplomatic relations with Libya.

Births

 * May 22 – Eddie Watson, Liberian-born Ghanaian actor

Deaths

 * April 12 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia, in Monrovia (b. 1913)
 * April 22 – Thirteen officials executed by the Doe Regime, including:
 * Cyril Bright, former Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs
 * Joseph J. Chesson, Minister of Justice
 * Cecil Dennis, Secretary of State (b. 1931)
 * Richard A. Henries, Speaker of the House of Representatives (b. 1908)
 * Charles T. O. King, Deputy Minister for Agriculture
 * David Franklin Neal, former Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs
 * P. Clarence Parker II, Chairman of the National Investment Council and Treasurer of the True Whig Party
 * James T. Phillips, former Minister of Finance and former Minister of Agriculture
 * James A. A. Pierre, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
 * John W. Sherman, Assistant Minister of Commerce and Trade
 * Frank J. Stewart Sr., Director of the Budget
 * Frank E. Tolbert, President Pro-Tempore of the Senate (b. 1910)
 * E. Reginald Townsend, Chairman of the True Whig Party (b. 1917)
 * November 10 – Momolu Dukuly, former Secretary of State, in Monrovia (b. 1903)