The following lists events that happened during

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

Incumbents

Elections

Events

May

*25 May **

2014 European Parliament election in Poland Fourteen or 14 may refer to: * 14 (number), the natural number following 13 and preceding 15 * one of the years 14 BC, AD 14, 1914, 2014 Music * 14th (band), a British electronic music duo * ''14'' (David Garrett album), 2013 *''14'', an unre ...

2014 Kraków referendum A referendum over four questions was held in Kraków on 25 May 2014. History and background In 2012 the authorities of Kraków decided to launch a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Although Kraków City Council had initially refused to submit the ...

June

*14 June - Beginning of Polish bugging affair ( pl)

August

*19 August - The second Polish scientific satellite, Heweliusz, is launched.

September

*15 September -

Ewa Kopacz Ewa Bożena Kopacz (; née Lis; born 3 December 1956) is a Polish politician who has served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously was Marshal of the Sejm from 2011 to 2014, the first woman to hold the office, a ...

becomes Poland's second female prime minister.

December

*10 December - The Constitutional Court overturns the 2013 ban on ritual slaughter of animals.

Deaths

*10 January -

Zbigniew Messner Zbigniew Stefan Messner (; 13 March 1929 – 10 January 2014) was a Communist economist and politician in Poland. His ancestors were of German Polish descent who had assimilated into Polish society. In 1972, he became Professor of Karol Adamiecki ...

, Communist politician (born 1929) *25 May -

Wojciech Jaruzelski Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (; 6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Polish military officer, politician and ''de facto'' leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989. He was the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party b ...

, former Communist leader of Poland (born 1923) *22 June - Grzegorz Knapp, motorcycle racer (born 1979) *24 December -

Krzysztof Krauze Krzysztof Krauze (2 April 1953 – 24 December 2014) was a Polish film director, cinematographer and actor, best known for his thriller '' The Debt'' (1999). Marek Haltofbr>''Polish National Cinema'' Berghahn Books, 2002. Life and career Krauze ...

, film director (born 1953) *26 December -

Stanisław Barańczak Stanisław Barańczak (, November 13, 1946December 26, 2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to- Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare a ...

, poet (born 1946) *30 December -

Marian Jurczyk Marian Jurczyk (16 October 1935 – 30 December 2014) was a Polish politician and Solidarity trade union activist. He was a Senator in the Polish Senate from 1997 to 2000, and mayor of Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stetti ...

Solidarność Solidarity ( pl, „Solidarność”, ), full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity" (, abbreviated ''NSZZ „Solidarność”'' ), is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subseq ...

activist (born 1935)

References

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