2020 in Haiti

Incumbents

• President: Jovenel Moïse
• Prime Minister: Fritz-William Michel

  Events

• January 1 – 216th Independence Day
• January 2 – Ancestry Day
• January 2 and 3 – Mange Loa
• January 6 – Epiphany
• January 12 – Remembrance Day
• January 20
• *Saint Sebastian
• *Grand Bois
• February 13 – Fifteen children die in a fire in an orphanage in Kenscoff, Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, Ouest Department.
• February 23 – Police in Port-au-Prince violently protest against money being spent on a carnaval celebrations instead of their salaries.
• February 25 – Mardi Gras
• February 26 – Ash Wednesday
• April 6 – Haiti has community transmission of the coronavirus.
• April 9
• *Maundy Thursday
• *Many Haitians flee the Dominican Republic due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dominican Republic.
• April 10 – Good Friday
• April 12 – Easter
• April 13 – A historical landmark church inside Haiti’s UNESCO World Heritage site, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church in Milot, is destroyed in a fire.
• April 20 – Haiti reopens factories; the country reports 40 COVID-19 cases and three deaths.
• April 21 – Haiti and Mexico have detected coronavirus infections among migrants deported recently from the United States.
• May 8 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti calls for immediate action to address health and humanitarian needs, alongside ongoing efforts to promote sustainable development and resilience to future shocks. The organization warns that that the COVID-19 pandemic may increase poverty in a country where four million people need urgent food assistance, and at least one million are suffering from severe hunger. Haiti has 101 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 12 deaths, and it still suffers from the 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak.
• June 16 – COVID-19 pandemic: The government says the virus has peaked in Haiti. 4,309 people have been infected and 73 have died since March 19 when the virus was first detected.
• July 13 – COVID-19 pandemic: A report by The New York Times and the Marshall Project indicates that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement worsened the spread of the pandemic by deporting sick people to their countries of origin, including Haiti.

  Scheduled events

• May 1 – Labor and Agriculture Day
• May 18 Flag and Universities Day
• May 21 – Ascension of Jesus
• June 11 – Feast of Corpus Christi
• August 15 – Assumption of Mary
• October 17 – 214th anniversary of the Death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines
• November 1 – All Saints Day
• November 1 and 2 – Fet Gede
• November 2 All Souls' Day
• November 18 – 217th anniversary of the Battle of Vertières
• December 5 – Discovery Day
• December 25
• *Christmas
• *Bath of Christmas

  Deaths

• January 14 – Bernard Diederich, journalist, author and historian.
• January 24 – Georges Castera, poet and writer.