2020 in Poland
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Events during the year 2020 in Poland.
Incumbents
Events
- 1 January – Town rights of Czerwińsk nad Wisłą, Klimontów, Lututów and Piątek were restored.[2]
- February — local governments controlling a third of Poland officially declared themselves as "against "LGBT ideology" or passed "pro-family" Charters, pledging to refrain from encouraging tolerance or funding NGOs working for LGBT rights.[3][4]
- 4 March — First lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 in Poland involving a patient from Cybinka. Start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland.
- 18 March – Stelmet Zielona Góra won their fifth Polish Basketball Championship (see 2019–20 PLK season).[5]
- 23 March – Vive Kielce won their 17th Polish Handball Championship (see 2019–20 Superliga).[6]
- 6 July – President Duda signed a document with a presidential draft of the amendment to the Polish Constitution to ban gay adoption.[7]
- 11 July – Legia Warsaw won their 14th Polish Football Championship (see 2019–20 Ekstraklasa).[8]
- 12 July – Andrzej Duda is re-elected as the President of Poland.[9]
- 25 July – Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro declared he would begin preparing the formal process for Poland to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention.[10][11][12][13] He claimed the treaty is harmful because it "requires that schools teach children about gender in an ideological way" and that it "de-emphasizes biological sex".[14]
- 6 October – Jarosław Kaczyński become deputy prime minister in the Mateusz Morawiecki government.[15]
- 11 October – Unia Leszno won their 18th Team Speedway Polish Championship defeating Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski in the finals (see 2020 Polish speedway season).
- 22 October – Poland's constitutional court rules abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional.[16][17][18][19]
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- 21 November – Deepspot, the deepest swimming pool in the world at that time, opens in Mszczonów.
- 7 December – stated-owned petroleum refinery and distributor PKN Orlen acquired media and press company "Polska Press" controlling large number of regional media portals and several regional newspapers.[20][21][22]
Holidays
Source:[23]
- 1 January - New Year's Day
- 6 January - Epiphany
- 12 April - Easter Sunday
- 13 April - Easter Monday
- 1 May - May Day
- 3 May - 3 May Constitution Day
- 31 May - Whit Sunday
- 11 June - Corpus Christi
- 15 August - Assumption Day (and Armed Forces Day)
- 1 November - All Saints' Day
- 11 November - Independence Day
- 25 December - Christmas Day
- 26 December – 2nd Day of Christmas
Deaths
January
- 2 January – Bogusław Polch, comic book artist (b. 1941).[24]
- 17 January
- Lech Raczak, theatre director (b. 1946).[25]
- Stanislaw Stefanek, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Łomża (b. 1936).[26]
July
- 6 July
- Zdzisław Myrda, Olympic basketball player (b. 1951).[27]
- Marta Stebnicka, actress (b. 1925).[citation needed]
- 10 July – Anna Stroka, literary historian, author and translator (b. 1923).[28]
August
- 4 August – Jan Strelau, psychologist (b. 1931).[29]
- 5 August – Stefan Majer, basketball player and coach (b. 1929).[30]
- 10 August – Dariusz Baliszewski, historian, journalist and writer (b. 1946).[31]
- 14 August – Ewa Demarczyk, singer and poet (b. 1941).[32]
- 18 August – Wojciech Karpiński, writer and historian of ideas (b. 1943).[33]
- 22 August – Józefa Hennelowa, journalist and politician (b. 1925).[34]
September
- 1 September – Jerzy Szczakiel, speedway rider (b. 1949).[35]
- 5 September – Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins (b. 1926).[36]
October
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- 17 October – Ryszard Ronczewski, actor (b. 1930).[37]
- 18 October – Stanisław Kogut, politician and trade union activist (b. 1953).[38]
- 19 October – Wojciech Pszoniak, actor (b. 1942).[39]
- 20 October – Bogdan Józef Wojtuś, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1937).[40]
December
- 1 December – Hanna Stadnik, Polish resistance veteran and activist (b. 1929).[41]