Events during the year 2008 in Poland.

Incumbents

Events

January

* 23 January – Mirosławiec air disaster; an

EADS CASA C-295 The Airbus C295 (previously CASA C-295) is a medium tactical transport aircraft that was designed and initially manufactured by the Spanish aerospace company CASA, which is now part of the European multinational Airbus Defence and Space divi ...

military transport plane crashed as it approached the

Mirosławiec Mirosławiec () is a town in Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northwestern Poland, with 2,671 inhabitants (2010). The 12th Air Base of the Polish Air Force is located north of the town. History Mirosławiec is a former private to ...

runway, killing all passengers and crew: 20 victims. 3 days of national mourning followed.

March

* 1 March – Cyclone Emma causes damage in Poland

June

* 4 June – 6 miners died in a blast in

Borynia Coal Mine The Borynia coal mine is a large mine in the south of Poland in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Silesian Voivodeship, 260 km south-west of the capital, Warsaw. Borynia has estimated reserves of 34 million tonnes of coal Coal is a combustible bla ...

August

* 5–6 June – 2008 Poland tornado outbreak; 4 fatalities.

Deaths

July

* 10 July: Krystyna Kersten, Polish historian. * 13 July:

Bronisław Geremek Bronisław Geremek (; born Benjamin Lewertow;

, Polish politician, died in a car accident. * 14 July: Antoni Heda, Polish general and partisan.