2020

== Events ==
=== January ===
* January 1
** Croatia begins its term in the presidency of the European Union.
** Flash floods struck Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 66 people in the worst flooding in over a decade.
* January 2 – The Royal Australian Air Force and Navy are deployed to New South Wales and Victoria to assist mass evacuation efforts amidst the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.
* January 3 – A United States drone strike at Baghdad International Airport kills ten people, including the intended target, an Iranian general. Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
* January 5
** Second Libyan Civil War: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces the deployment of Turkish troops to Libya on behalf of the United Nations-backed Government of National Accord.
** 2019–20 Croatian presidential election: The second round of voting is held, and Zoran Milanović of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia defeats incumbent president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović.
* January 8
** Iran launches ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases hosting U.S. soldiers, injuring over 100 personnel.
** Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down by Iranian forces shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, killing all 176 people on board.
* January 9
** A rare, circumbinary planet called TOI 1338-b is discovered.
** Islamic State millitants in the Greater Sahara assaulted a Nigerien military base in Chinagodrar, killing at least 89 Nigerien soldiers.
* January 10 – Haitham bin Tariq succeeds Qaboos bin Said as the Sultan of Oman.
* January 11 – Presidential and legislative elections are held in Taiwan. Incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen is reelected, and the Democratic Progressive Party wins a majority of 67 out of 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan.
* January 12 – The Taal Volcano in the Philippines has had its first major eruption since 1977.
* January 16 – The first impeachment trial of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, begins in the U.S. Senate. He was acquitted on February 5.
* January 18 – Yemeni Civil War: 111 Yemeni soldiers and five civilians are killed in a drone and missile attack on a military camp near Maʼrib.
* January 20 – COVID-19 pandemic: Chinese authorities publicly confirm human-to-human transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
* January 22 – The Hellenic Parliament elects Katerina Sakellaropoulou as president of Greece.
* January 23 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the initial COVID-19 outbreak, is quarantined, with all scheduled public transport services and intercity flights halted.
* January 26
** The 2020 Peruvian parliamentary election is held to elect all 130 members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru.
** Kobe Bryant dies in a helicopter crash, alongside his daughter Gianna and seven others, in Calabasas, California.
* January 29 – U.S. President Donald Trump signs the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, a North American trade agreement set to replace NAFTA.
* January 30 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the outbreak of the disease a public health emergency of international concern, the sixth time that this measure has been invoked since 2009.
* January 31 – The United Kingdom and Gibraltar formally withdraw from the European Union, beginning an 11-month transition period.
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