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France in 2020

Historical records for France in 2020, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

9Records
7Events
7Named people
4Places
4Categories

Historical records

January

24 January 2020COVID-19Agnes Buzyn

Paris · Government / Government of France

France confirms the first known COVID-19 cases in Europe.

March

16 March 2020COVID-19Emmanuel Macron

Paris · Government / Government of France

Announces national restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19.

17 March 2020COVID-19Emmanuel Macron

Paris · Government / Government of France

France enters national lockdown to slow COVID-19 transmission.

July

16 July 2020La Liga Title-Clinching BraceKarim Benzema

Madrid · Sport / Football

Scores twice against Villarreal as Real Madrid mathematically secure the league championship.

16 July 2020Thirty-Fourth La Liga TitleZinedine Zidane

Madrid · Sport / Football

Coaches Real Madrid to their thirty-fourth Spanish league championship.

August

23 August 2020Coman Champions League Final Winning GoalKingsley Coman

Lisbon · Sport / Football

Heads Bayern Munich's only goal against Paris Saint-Germain in the final.

October

7 October 2020Nobel PrizeEmmanuelle Charpentier

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9.

13 October 2020PlutoTanguy Bertrand

Science / Astronomy

Climate modelling shows that bright deposits on Pluto's mountains are methane ice formed by atmospheric processes unlike terrestrial snowcaps.

Other Events

2020Pluto AtmosphereTanguy Bertrand

Science / Astronomy

Modelling indicates circulation driven by volatile transport across Sputnik Planitia can produce westward winds in Pluto's thin atmosphere.

Names involved

Agnes BuzynEmmanuel MacronEmmanuelle CharpentierKarim BenzemaKingsley ComanTanguy BertrandZinedine Zidane

Places involved

LisbonMadridParisStockholm

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.