2014 in Poland

The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Poland.

Incumbents

Elections

Events

January

• 1 January – Five localities were granted town rights: Dobrzyca, Modliborzyce, Mrozy, Stepnica, and Zaklików.

April

• 27 April – Skra Bełchatów won their sixth Polish Volleyball Championship defeating Resovia in the finals (see 2013–14 PlusLiga).

May

• 25 May
• 2014 European Parliament election in Poland
• 2014 Kraków referendum

June

• 14 June - Beginning of Polish bugging affair ()

August

• 19 August – The second Polish scientific satellite, Heweliusz, is launched.

• 30 August–21 September – Poland hosts the 2014 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship.

September

• 15 September – Ewa Kopacz becomes Poland's second female prime minister.

October

• 5 October – Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski won their eighth Team Speedway Polish Championship defeating Unia Leszno in the finals (see 2014 Polish speedway season).

December

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

Deaths

• 10 January - Zbigniew Messner, Communist politician (born 1929)
• 25 May - Wojciech Jaruzelski, former Communist leader of Poland (born 1923)
• 22 June - Grzegorz Knapp, motorcycle racer (born 1979)
• 24 December - Krzysztof Krauze, film director (born 1953)
• 26 December - Stanisław Barańczak, poet (born 1946)
• 30 December - Marian Jurczyk, Solidarność activist (born 1935)

See also

• 2014 in Polish television

References