2020 in Oceania

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

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

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

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

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: Sir Peter Cosgrove (since March 28, 2014)[4]
  • Administrator: Natasha Griggs (since October 5, 2018)[4]

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

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

  • Administrator: Eric Hutchinson (since April 1, 2017)[5]

East Timor / Timor-Leste

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

Fiji

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

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

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

Micronesia

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

Nauru

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

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

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

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

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

Cook Islands

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

Niue

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

Tokelau

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

Samoa

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

Solomon Islands

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

  • Governor-General: David Vunagi (since July 8, 2019)[13]
  • Prime Minister: Rick Hou (since November 16, 2017)[13]

Tonga

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

Tuvalu

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

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

British Overseas Territories

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

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

  • Governor (nonresident) of the Pitcairn Islands: Laura Clark (since January 25, 2018)[19]
  • Mayor and Chairman of the Island Council: Charlene Warren-Peu (since January 1, 2020)[19]

Chile

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

Insular Chile

France

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

French Polynesia

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

New Caledonia

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

  • High Commissioner: Laurent Prevost (since August 5, 2019)[23]
  • President of the Government: Thierry Santa (since July 9, 2019)[23]
    • Temporary Vice President: Gilbert Tuienon (since July 9, 2019)[23]

Wallis and Futuna

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

  • High Administrator: Thierry Queffelec (since 7 January 2019)[24]
  • President of the Territorial Assembly David Verge (since 4 April 2017)[24]
  • There are three traditional kings with limited powers.[24]

United States

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

American Samoa

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

Guam

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

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

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

United States Minor Outlying Islands

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

January

February

March

April

  • 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

  • May 1
  • May 3
  • May 4
    • Youth Day, Fiji
    • Authorities from Australia and New Zealand meet to establish a coronavirus-free travel zone.[84]
  • May 8
  • May 10 – Constitution Day, Micronesia[86]
  • May 16 – China opens an embassy in Kiribati.[87][88]
  • May 20
    • Restoration of Independence, East Timor[6]
    • COVID-19 pandemic: Alyza Alder, 18, from Gilbert, Arizona, was visiting Hawaii when she was arrested after allegedly violating the state's mandatory order that tourists and returning residents self-isolate for 14 days.[89] Hawaii has had 643 confirmed cases and 17 deaths from COVID-19.
  • May 22 – May 2020 New Zealand National Party leadership election.[90] Todd Muller and Nikki Kaye won.[91]
  • May 23 – The former prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O’Neill, is arrested and taken in for questioning over alleged misappropriation and corruption involving the purchase of two power generators from Israel for 50 million kina ($14.2 million).[92]
  • May 23 and 24 – Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday (breaking the fast)[93]
  • May 24 – A 5.8Mw earthquake strikes New Zealand; Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern continues a television interview. No damages or injuries are reported.[94]
  • May 25 – Memorial Day, Hawaii and U.S. territories

June

July

  • 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

September

  • 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

November

December

  • 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.[122]
    • 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.[123]
  • December 20
    • The U.S. House of Representatives passes legislation to restore Medicaid to Marshall Islanders in the United States.[124]
    • 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.[125]
  • December 21 – Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island erupts.[126]
  • 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.[127]
  • December 28 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Associated Press reports that several island countries are facing food shortages, generally related to border closings.[128]

Scheduled

Elections

National and territorial holidays

September to December

Culture

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

By sport

Association football / soccer
Football
Tennis
  • 2020 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone, tennis

By date

Deaths

January to March

April to June

July to September

October to December

Television

See also

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  135. "Island of Vanuatu becomes 1st nation to resume cricket, live actions to start this week". India Today. Associated Press. April 24, 2020. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  136. "Kaumātua and leader Piri Sciascia dies". RNZ News. 19 January 2020. Retrieved 19 Apr 2020.
  137. Dr Shirley Murray
  138. Women's affairs champion, 'really good Nelsonian' Dame Alison Roxburgh dies
  139. Writer and social historian Gordon McLauchlan dies aged 89
  140. Anthony Ford
  141. "Former New Zealand Prime Minister Mike Moore has died". New Zealand Herald. 2 February 2020. Retrieved 19 Apr 2020.
  142. Fiji mourns loss of Rika
  143. "Ex Straitjacket Fits guitarist Andrew Brough dies". Stuff News. 4 February 2020. Retrieved 19 Apr 2020.
  144. Newshub newsreader and journalist Emma Jolliff has died
  145. Sir Des Britten, restaurateur, TV chef and priest, has died
  146. Samoan-born New Zealand boxer Jimmy 'The Thunder' Peau dies, aged 54
  147. Alan Henderson, man behind the iconic TV character 'Thingee' has died
  148. Former Yoña Mayor Ken Joe Ada dies overnight at Navy Hospital
  149. Fiji's 1st diplomat to UN Satya Nandan passes away
  150. Former Flying Fijians Captain passes away
  151. “We have lost a great champion for the gospel”
  152. Former Nelson and Tasman Mayor Kerry Marshall has died
  153. Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has died
  154. Brisbane Archdiocese’s former shepherd Archbishop John Bathersby has died aged 83
  155. Environmentalist Sir Rob Fenwick dies at age 68
  156. Vale Kevin Bacon
  157. Australian Jazz Legend Don Burrows Passes Away At Age 92
  158. Rest in peace Henry Smith
  159. Peter Stapleton (25 April 1954 – 22 March 2020)
  160. Aronian’s wife, Arianne Caoili, dies aged 33
  161. В Сербии от коронавируса скончался епископ Валевский (in Russian)
  162. Māoridom mourns reo Māori stalwart, Dr Huirangi Waikerepuru
  163. "Playwright Dean Parker dies". RNZ News. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  164. Ratu Finau Mara Passes Away After An Illness
  165. Fijivillage. "Former PM Laisenia Qarase to be laid to rest at his home village in Mavana, Lau". www.fijivillage.com. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  166. Kiwi actor Bruce Allpress dies aged 89
  167. Former All Black and Marlborough Ranfurly Shield hero Alan Sutherland has died
  168. Former Gov. Froilan Cruz Tenorio passes away
  169. Margaret Wyn Loutit
  170. Bishop Basil Meeking, Bishop Emeritus of Christchurch, dies aged 90
  171. The life and times of Aboriginal rights champion and political trailblazer John Ah Kit, dead at 69
  172. Sir Toke Talagi, longtime premier of Niue, dies
  173. "Derek Ho, first Hawaiian man to win world surfing title, dead at 55". NBC News. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  174. MP Lazaro laid to rest
  175. The Cook Islands loses another former Cabinet Minister
  176. Dr Joseph Williams – a man of mana and humility
  177. Archbishop Benedict To Varpin
  178. Nicaragua envía condolencias a Islas Marshall por tránsito a otro plano de vida de expresidente Iroij Litokwa Tomeing (in Spanish)
  179. Former president of Palau, Kuniwo Nakamura, dies
  180. RIP Allan Migi – Former Archbishop of Papua New Guinea
  181. Former Cook Islands PM Jim Marurai dies
  182. "The Latest: Samoa reports its 1st positive coronavirus test". AP NEWS. AP. 18 November 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  183. Ratu Tevita passes away
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