2020 in Italy

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The following is a list of events from the year 2020 in Italy .

Incumbents

Giuseppe Conte

• President: Sergio Mattarella
• Prime Minister: Giuseppe Conte

Events

January

• 28 December 2019 – 5 January 2020 – 2019–20 Tour de Ski
• 26 January
  • The 2020 Calabrian regional election takes place. ^[1]
  • The 2020 Emilia-Romagna regional election takes place. ^[2]
• 31 January – The first cases of coronavirus in Italy are confirmed.

February

• 12 February – Italy's Senate votes to allow prosecutors to put Matteo Salvini on trial over charges of holding migrants at sea. ^{[3] [4]}
• 21 February – The first outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy occurs in Codogno in Lombardy, with 14 confirmed cases.
• 22 February – Some football games in the North are postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They are played the following week.

March

• 4 March – Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte signs a decree to close all schools nationwide and activate a massive lockdown in northern Italy.
• 8 March – Conte signs a decree that imposes a national lockdown where all work and teaching activities are suspended until May 4 throughout the country.
• 9 March – After the Sassuolo v Brescia match, all sporting activities of every series and every sport are suspended due to the lockdown.

May

• 2 May – The Italian basketball championship is officially ended due to the covid pandemic; Virtus Bologna becomes champion of Italy at the table.
• 19 May – The expected date of the lifting of the school lockdown. However, the government postpones the opening to the new school year in September.

June

• 20 June – The Italian football championship Serie A resumes after the 2-month break due to the lockdown.

August

• 2 August – Juventus wins the 2019-20 Serie A.

September

• 17 September – After ending support in the United States, Canada, the rest of Europe and China, the Nintendo 3DS together with the 2DS, 3DS XL, New 3DS, New 3DS XL and New 2DS XL versions end support in Italy, thus putting an end to the era of 3DS in the Italian videogame market.
• 20 September – The 2020 Campania regional election takes place; Vincenzo De Luca is elected as president of the Campania region.

October

• 26 October – A violent protest takes place in Naples in which Camorra and far-right groups take part, against the closures brought by the government of the Campania region.

Deaths

Domenico Corcione

Claudia Giannotti

Gianrico Tedeschi

January

• 3 January – Domenico Corcione, general, Minister of Defence (b. 1929) ^[5]
• 4 January
  • Emilio Giletti, racing driver (b. 1929) ^[6]
  • Lorenza Mazzetti, film director (b. 1927) ^[7]
• 7 January – Vincenzo Cerundolo, medical researcher (b. 1959) ^[8]
• 10 January – Guido Messina, racing cyclist (b. 1931) ^[9]

February

• 1 February
  • Luciano Gaucci, football executive (b. 1938) ^[10]
  • Luciano Ricceri, production designer (b. 1940) ^[11]
• 9 February – Mirella Freni, operatic soprano (b. 1935)

March

• 3 March – Mother Tekla Famiglietti, nun (b. 1936) ^[12]
• 5 March – Antonio Nardini, historian and author (b. 1922) ^[13]
• 9 March – Italo De Zan, cyclist (b. 1925) ^[14]
• 10 March – Alessandro Criscuolo, jurist (b. 1937) ^[15]
• 11 March – Stefano Bianco, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1985) ^[16]
• 12 March – Giovanni Battista Rabino, politician (b. 1931) ^[17]
• 14 March – Piero Schlesinger, jurist and banker (b. 1930) ^[18]
• 15 March – Vittorio Gregotti, architect (b. 1927) ^[19]
• 16 March
  • Sergio Bassi, singer-songwriter (b. 1951) ^[20]
  • Francesco Saverio Pavone, magistrate (b. 1944) ^[21]
• 18 March – Luciano Federici, footballer (b. 1938) ^[22]
• 19 March
  • Innocenzo Donina, footballer (b. 1950) ^[23]
  • Antonio Michele Stanca, geneticist (b. 1942) ^[24]
• 20 March – Marino Quaresimin, politician (b. 1937) ^[25]
• 24 March – Lorenzo Acquarone, lawyer and politician (b. 1931) ^[26]

April

• 17 April – Giuseppe Guarino, scholar and politician (born 1922)
• 26 April – Giulietto Chiesa, journalist and politician (b. 1940) ^[27]

May

• 15 May – Ezio Bosso, composer, classical musician and conductor (b. 1971) ^[28]

June

• 4 June – Marcello Abbado, composer and pianist (b. 1926) ^[29]

July

• 26 July – Claudia Giannotti, actress (b. 1937) ^[30]
• 27 July – Gianrico Tedeschi, actor (b. 1920) ^[31]

November

• 2 November – Gigi Proietti, actor, comedian (b. 1940)
• 11 November – Giuliana Minuzzo, alpine skier (b. 1931) ^{[32] [ importance? ]}

See also

• Italy portal
• Current events portal
• Europe portal
• European Union portal
• Modern history portal

Country overviews

• Italy
• History of Italy
• History of modern Italy
• Outline of Italy
• Government of Italy
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References

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2. "Elezioni regionali Emilia Romagna, data. Si vota il 26 gennaio 2020". ilrestodelcarlino.it (in Italian). 23 September 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
3. "Italy Salvini: Senate votes for far-right leader to face trial". BBC News. 12 February 2020.
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5. "Generale ed ex Ministro della difesa, è morto Domenico Corcione". nuovaperiferia.it (in Italian). 4 January 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
6. "Addio a Emilio Giletti. Fu pilota della Maserati e amico di Fangio" [Farewell to Emilio Giletti. He was a Maserati driver and a friend of Fangio] (in Italian). January 5, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
7. "Morta la scrittrice e regista Lorenza Mazzetti" [The writer and director Lorenza Mazzetti dies] (in Italian). 4 January 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
8. "Immunology Leader Vincenzo Cerundolo Dies". 16 January 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
9. "Addio a Guido Messina, era la maglia rosa più anziana" [Goodbye to Guido Messina, it was the oldest pink shirt] (in Italian). January 10, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
10. "È morto Luciano Gaucci" [Luciano Gaucci died] (in Italian). 1 February 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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