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The following lists events that happened during 2020 in Oceania.

Years in Oceania: 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
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Sovereign states

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Australia

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Main article: 2020 in Australia

Australia The Commonwealth of Australia gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1901 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

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Ashmore and Cartier Islands Ashmore and Cartier Islands, located in the Indian Ocean, is an uninhabited territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport.[3]

Christmas Island

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Christmas Island Christmas Island, located in the Indian Ocean, is a non-self governing territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport.[3]

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

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Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands, located in the Indian Ocean, is a non-self governing territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport.[3]

  • Governor General: David Hurley (since July 1, 2019)[4]
  • Administrator: Natasha Griggs (since October 5, 2018)[4]

Coral Sea Islands

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Coral Sea Islands The Coral Sea Islands is a territory of Australia administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts, and Sport.[3]

Norfolk Island

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Norfolk Island Norfolk Island is a self-governing territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts, and Sport.[3]

East Timor / Timor-Leste

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East Timor The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became independent from Portugal in 1975 and from Indonesia in 2002.[6]

Fiji

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Main article: 2020 in Fiji

Fiji The Republic of Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1970 and became a republic in 1987.[7]

Kiribati

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Kiribati The Republic of Kiribati is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations that became independent in 1979.[8]

  • Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II (since February 6, 1952)[1]
  • President: Taneti Mamau (since March 11, 2016)

Marshall Islands

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Marshall Islands The Republic of the Marshall Islands is an associated state of the United States.

Micronesia

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Main article: 2020 in the Federated States of Micronesia

Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia is an independent republic and an associated state of the United States.

Nauru

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Nauru The Republic of Nauru gained its independence in 1969 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Palau

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Palau The Republic of Palau was established in 1979 and it became an associated state of the United States in 1994.[12]

Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea The Independent State of Papua New Guinea declared its independence from Australia in 1975 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Realm of New Zealand

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New Zealand The Realm of New Zealand consists of the sovereign state of New Zealand, the associated states of the Cook Islands and Niue, and the dependent territory of Tokelau. It also includes the Antarctica territorial claim of the Ross Dependency.

New Zealand

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Main article: 2020 in New Zealand

New Zealand signed the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Cook Islands

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Cook Islands The Cook Islands is a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand.[3]

Niue

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Niue Niue is a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand.[3]

Tokelau

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Tokelau Tokelau is a self-administering dependent territory of New Zealand.[3]

Samoa

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Samoa The Independent State of Samoa became independent from New Zealand in 1962.

Solomon Islands

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Solomon Islands The Solomon Islands became independent from the United Kingdom in 1978 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Tonga

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Tonga The Kingdom of Tonga became independent from British protection in 1970 and became a constitutional monarchy in 2010.[14]

Tuvalu

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Tuvalu Tuvalu became independent from the United Kingdom in 1978 and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.[15]

Vanuatu

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Vanuatu The Republic of Vanuatu became independent from France and the United Kingdom in 1980 and is a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.[16]

Dependencies

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British Overseas Territories

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United Kingdom The British Overseas Territories are territories that have not been granted independence. Most are self-governing and are lightly populated.

  • Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II (since February 6, 1952)[19]

Pitcairn Islands

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Pitcairn Islands The Pitcairn Islands are the only British Overseas Territory located in the Pacific Ocean.[3]

Chile

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Main article: 2020 in Chile

Chile Chile declared its independence from Spain on September 18, 1810.[20]

Insular Chile

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Valparaíso Region

France

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Main article: 2020 in France

France French colonization of Oceania began in 1834 when Catholic missionaries arrived in Tahiti.

French Polynesia

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French Polynesia French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France since 2003, though it is often referred to as an overseas country due the to its degree of autonomy.[3]

New Caledonia

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New Caledonia New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France since 1998.[3]

Wallis and Futuna

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Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna is an overseas collectivity of France since 2003.[3]

United States

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Main article: 2020 in the United States
See also: 2020 in United States politics and government

United States The United States expansion into the Pacific beginning with Baker Island and Howland Island in 1857.

American Samoa

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American Samoa American Samoa is an unincorporated unorganized territory of the U.S.[3]

Guam

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Guam Guam is an unincorporated organized territory of the U.S.[3]

Hawaii

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Hawaii Hawaii became a state of the United States on August 21, 1959. It consists of eight major islands and 129 smaller islands.

Northern Mariana Islands

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Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands is a commonwealth in political union with and under the sovereignty of the United States.[28]

United States Minor Outlying Islands

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The United States Minor Outlying Islands are small, isolated islands or atolls in the Pacific Ocean. Most are uninhabited, although they may be administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as National Wildlife Refuges. They are unincorporated territories of the U.S.[3]

Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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  • April 1 – With between 150 and 200 cases of COVID-19, healthy sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt disembark to be quarantined in hotels on Guam. Infected crew members will stay on Naval Base Guam. About 10% of the crew are required to remain on the ship nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.[62]
  • April 2 – The 5,000 crew members of the USS Roosevelt cheered Captain Brett Crozier after he was relieved of duty for speaking up about the coronavirus outbreak on the ship. 60,000 people had signed a petition from Change.org asking for his reinstatement.[63][64]
  • April 3
    • Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) reports two cases of COVID-19. The 3,000 inhabitants of the island are nearly 100% dependent upon tourism which has been shut off. There is a daily curfew from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and people fear they may soon be forced to beg for food.[65]
    • The Solomon Islands says dozens of people could be lost at sea as Cyclone Harold hits the islands.[66]
  • April 4
    • Vanuatu is on alert for Cyclone Harold.[67]
    • COVID-19
      • Fiji announces a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases from seven to twelve.[68]
      • Guam has two more COVID-19 deaths and two more positive tests, bringing the total number of cases to 84.[69]
      • New Caledonia president Thierry Santa moves into self-isolation after a member of her crisis management team tested positive.[69]
      • New Zealand reports 52 new confirmed infections, bringing the total to 950.[69]
      • Seventy-eight New Zealanders remain on 12 cruise ships because of COVID-19-related travel restrictions around the world.[69]
  • April 7 – The High Court of Australia unanimously quashes Cardinal George Pell convictions and substitutes verdicts of acquittal.[70]
  • April 8 – National Health Day, Kiribati[71]
  • April 10 – Good Friday (Christian holiday)
  • April 13
    • Easter Monday (Christian holiday)
    • Since March 23, 561 Fijians have been repatriated and 1,157 visitors to Fiji have been evacuated.[72]
  • April 14 – A week after Tropical Cyclone Harold, a Category 5 superstorm, 35% of the population (100,000 people) of Vanuatu is homeless. Three people died, but the death toll is expected to rise. 27 people died in the Solomon Islands and one died in Fiji. No deaths were reported in Tonga, but 400 homes were destroyed.[73]
  • April 19 – Twenty-two new cases of COVID-19 infections in Taiwan are reported in sailors who recently visited Palau. Palau has not had any reported cases.[74]
  • April 20
  • April 25
    • Anzac Day: Most public celebrations cancelled, but private memorials are held.[79][80]
    • Former Tonga Prime Minister Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō receives a two-year suspended sentence, and a $US1,700 fine for passport, perjury, and firearm offenses.[81]
    • Trade unions in French Polynesia reject the government's COVID-19 pandemic relief package.[82]
  • April 28 – St. Peter Chanel Day, Wallis and Fortuna. Chanel is the Catholic patron saint of Oceania, buried on Fortuna Island.[83]

May

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June

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July

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  • July 1 – Flights from Canberra to Wellington resume.[102]
  • July 2 – Discovery Day, Pitcairn Islands[101]
  • July 3 – Fishermen's Holiday, Marshall Islands
  • July 4 – COVID-19 pandemic: 3,000 people in nine residential towers in Melbourne, Australia are confined to their buildings in the country's strictest lockdown as new infections rise in the area.[103]
  • July 4 – Independence Day, United States (celebrated in Hawaii and U.S. territories)
  • July 7
    • COVID-19 pandemic
      • Fourteen flight attendants from Hawaiian Airlines test positive for coronavirus and go into quarantine.[104]
      • Authorities in New Zealand say they will press charges against a 32-year-old coronavirus patient who escaped quarantine in Auckland and went shopping at a supermarket.[105]
  • July 8
    • Heilala Festival Week, Tonga
    • A new study from Stanford University shows that people from four island sites in French Polynesia bore DNA indicative of interbreeding with South Americans most closely related to present-day indigenous Colombians at around 1200 AD. People from Chile's Rapa Nui (Easter Island) also had South American ancestry.[106]
  • July 9
  • July 10 – Gospel Day, Kiribati[71]
  • July 12 – Independence Day, Kiribati[8][71]
  • July 14 – Bastille Day (celebrated in French territories)[108]
  • July 17 – A 7.0Mw earthquake with an epicenter in Morobe Patrol Post, New Guinea, is recorded. Only minor damages are reported.[109]
  • July 21 – Liberation Day, Guam
  • July 23 – Remembrance Day, Papua New Guinea
  • July 24 – Children's Day, Vanuatu
  • July 29 – Territory Day, Wallis and Futuna
  • July 30 – Independence Day, Vanuatu

August

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September

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  • September 4
    • Labor Day, Marshall Islands
    • Palau invites the United States to construct land bases, port facilities, and airfields on its territory.[117]
  • September 7 – Labor Day, Hawaii and U.S. territories
  • September 8 – Members of the Colorado cult "Love has Won Cult” are deported after complaints of cultural appropriation.[118]
  • September 16 – Independence Day, Papua New Guinea
  • September 18 – Independence Day, Chile[20]
  • September 20 – Two men who were working to clear unexploded World War II bombs are killed in an explosion in Honiara, Solomon Islands.[119]
  • September 23 – Ishmael Toroama, a former rebel leader, is elected president of Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.[120]
  • September 24 – New Caledonia Day[23]
  • September 25

October

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  • October 1
  • October 5
  • October 6 – Territory Day, Christmas Island
  • October 10 – Fiji Week (Fiji Independence Day)[7]
  • October 11 – White Sunday; Samoa, American Samoa, Tokelau, and Tonga
  • October 12 – Columbus Day, Hawaii and U.S. territories; Chile and Easter Island
  • October 22 – Peniamina Gospel Day, Niue
  • October 26
  • October (date unknown) – Rowman & Littlefield releases Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange by Jon Mitchell (ISBN 978-1-5381-3033-9), which details how the U.S. military has exposed 600,000 people to toxins in Japan and Micronesia.[121]

November

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December

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  • December 4 – Gospel Day, Marshall Islands
  • December 8 – Santa Marian Kamalen, Guam
  • December 10
  • December 17
    • Fiji imposes a curfew in anticipation of Cyclone Yasa, a Category 5 storm that is expected to make landall on December 18.[123]
    • COVID-19 pandemic: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that her country has contracts to buy more vaccine doses than are needed and will share the excess with neighbors.[124]
  • December 20
    • The U.S. House of Representatives passes legislation to restore Medicaid to Marshall Islanders in the United States.[125]
    • COVID-19 pandemic: Samoa, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Palau, Tuvalu, and Nauru plus North Korea and Turkmenistan in Asia are the only countries that have no reported cases of the virus.[126]
  • December 21 – Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island erupts.[127]
  • December 22 – Two Russian Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers and four Chinese H-6K bombers fly over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.[128]
  • December 28 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Associated Press reports that several island countries are facing food shortages, generally related to border closings.[129]

Scheduled

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Elections

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Main article: 2020 list of elections
See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on politics

National and territorial holidays

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See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage

September to December

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Culture

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See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage

Television

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See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television

The long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours continues filming by limiting studio access and practicing social distancing. As of April 21, the country reported 6,547 cases of infection and 67 deaths related to COVID-19.[134]

Sports

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See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports

By sport

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Association football / soccer
Football
Tennis

By date

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Deaths

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January to March

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April to June

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July to September

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October to December

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Television

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See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television

See also

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