City by 2020 News and Events

Protests in ____ ____ continue due to China's political interventions in the territory

Two massive explosions on ______'s port in August leave behind more than 200 dead and 6 000 injured, as well as damaged buildings

George Floyd is killed in ___________ by a police officer, which started a series of protests

The Hagia Sophia in ________, which had been a museum for decades, is turned back into a mosque

______ hosted the final of the Euro 2020, a match that England lost against Italy

Eurovision 2020 was cancelled, but Junior Eurovision 2020 is held in ______ with no live audience. The winner was Valentina from France

The United States foramlly pulls out of the _____ Agreement on Climate Change

The cycling competition La Vuelta a España 2020, which was due to start in ______, changes its starting point to Irún, because they can't go to a foreign country

Pope Francis livestreams, due to the pandemic, the Urbi et Orbi blessing for Easter from Saint Peter's Square in the _______ ____

All public transport becomes free to use in _________ ____ as well as in the rest of the country. It is the first time that a country makes public transportation free

After Alexander Lukashenko's reelection, protests spark throughout all the country, including the largest political march in its history in _____

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan reescalates into war over Nagorno-Karabakh and the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh, whose capital city is ___________

A major eruption of the Taal volcano, located very close to ______, begins

________, which is located in the Iberian Peninsula, stops being part of the EU

_____, the epicentre of the initial COVID-19 outbreak is quarantined in January

A 1634 edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen, by William Shakespeare, is discovered in ________, Spain. It is the oldest copy of any of his works that can be found in the country

In January. the first case of Covid-19 in Europe was confirmed, in the city of ________

The skeletons of 200 mammoths and 30 other animals are unearthed at a construction site for the Santa Lucía Airport, ______ ____'s second airport. It is the largest finding of mammoth bones to date

The telescope of the _______ Observatory, in Puerto Rico, collapses

Russian President Vladimir Putin declares a state of emergency after 20,000 tons of oil leaked into the Ambarnaya River near ______