2020 in Peru

• 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)

Ongoing – The 2017–2021 Peruvian political crisis

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

• 27 April – A prison riot at the Miguel Castro Castro prison in San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima left nine inmates dead.^[1]

• 22 August – 13 people are killed in a stampede when police raided at a nightclub in Los Olivos District.^[2][3]

• 18 September – Impeachment hearings for President Martín Vizcarra begin.^[4]