2020 in Peru

Events in the year 2020 in Peru.

Incumbents

 * President:
 * Martín Vizcarra
 * Francisco Sagasti (from 17 November)
 * Prime Minister:
 * Vicente Zeballos (until 15 July)
 * Pedro Cateriano (from 15 July)
 * Walter Martos Ruiz (from 6 August)
 * Violeta Bermúdez (from 18 November)

Events
Ongoing – The 2017–2021 Peruvian political crisis

January

 * 26 January – Scheduled date for the 2020 Peruvian parliamentary election.

April

 * 27 April – A prison riot at the Miguel Castro Castro prison in San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima left nine inmates dead.

August

 * 22 August – 13 people are killed in a stampede when police raided at a nightclub in Los Olivos District.

September

 * 18 September – Impeachment hearings for President Martín Vizcarra begin.

January

 * January 4 – Walter Ormeño, footballer (b. 1926).
 * January 9 – Pablo Macera, historian (b. 1929).
 * January 19 – Dante Frasnelli Tarter, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1925).

March

 * March 4 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, politician and diplomat (b. 1920).

June

 * June 1 – Javier Alva Orlandini, politician, Vice President, President of the Senate (b. 1927).
 * June 9 – Luis Repetto Málaga, museologist and cultural manager (b. 1953).

July

 * July 1 – Santiago Manuin Valera, Awajún leader and Indigenous rights activist (b. 1957).

August

 * August 10 – Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (b. 1935).
 * August 12 – Gian Carlo Vacchelli, sports commentator and politician (b. 1981).
 * August 14 – Moisés Mamani, politician (b. 1969).
 * August 24 – Jorge Sanjinez Lenz, military volunteer (b. 1917).
 * August 25 – Francisco Belaúnde, politician (b. 1923).

September

 * September 14 – Alicia Maguiña, singer and composer (b. 1938).

December

 * December 14 – Segundo Galicia Sánchez, professor and sociologist (b. 1938).