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Clockwise, from top left: Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Malian Armed Forces overthrow the Government of Mali during the Malian coup d'état; a missile attack causes destruction in Ganja during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War; a man on a burned-out car observes damage from protests following the murder of George Floyd, who was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin; the aftermath of an airstrike on Mekelle during the Tigray War in Ethiopia; destruction in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, following an accidental explosion of ammonium nitrate that killed 218 people; mourners gather for the funeral of Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani after he was assassinated by a drone strike; a colorized transmission electron micrograph of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, a defining world event in 2020.
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2020 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
2020 MMXX
Ab urbe condita
2773
Armenian calendar
1469 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԹ
Assyrian calendar
6770
Baháʼí calendar
176–177
Balinese saka calendar
1941–1942
Bengali calendar
1427
Berber calendar
2970
British Regnal year
68 Eliz. 2 – 69 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar
2564
Burmese calendar
1382
Byzantine calendar
7528–7529
Chinese calendar
己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4717 or 4510 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4718 or 4511
Coptic calendar
1736–1737
Discordian calendar
3186
Ethiopian calendar
2012–2013
Hebrew calendar
5780–5781
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2076–2077
- Shaka Samvat
1941–1942
- Kali Yuga
5120–5121
Holocene calendar
12020
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1020–1021
Iranian calendar
1398–1399
Islamic calendar
1441–1442
Japanese calendar
Reiwa 2 (令和２年)
Javanese calendar
1953–1954
Juche calendar
109
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4353
Minguo calendar
ROC 109 民國109年
Nanakshahi calendar
552
Thai solar calendar
2563
Tibetan calendar
阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 2146 or 1765 or 993 — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 2147 or 1766 or 994
Unix time
1577836800 – 1609459199
2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.
Calendar year
The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s.[1]Geospatial World also called 2020 "the worst year in terms of climate change" in part due to major climate disasters worldwide, including major bushfires in Australia and the western United States, as well as extreme tropical cyclone activity affecting large parts of North America.[2] A United Nations progress report published in December 2020 indicated that none of the international Sustainable Development Goals for 2020 were achieved.[3]Time magazine used its sixth ever Red X cover to declare 2020 "the worst year ever", although the cover article itself did not go as far, instead saying "There have been worse years in U.S. history, and certainly worse years in world history, but most of us alive today have seen nothing like this one."[4] The Golden Raspberry Awards also awarded the year the Special Governor's Award for The Worst Calendar Year EVER! at their 41st ceremony.
^IMFBlog (April 14, 2020). "The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression". IMF Blog. Archived from the original on April 14, 2020. Retrieved March 23, 2021.
^Datta, Anusuya (October 11, 2020). "Here's why 2020 is the worst year so far in terms of Climate Change". Geospatial World. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
^"2020 Report: Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals | Knowledge for policy". Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
^Zacharek, Stephanie (December 5, 2020). "2020 Tested Us Beyond Measure. Where Do We Go From Here?". Time. Archived from the original on March 20, 2021. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
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