2014 in Europe
| Years in Europe: | 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 |
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| Years: | 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 |
This is a list of 2014 events that occurred in Europe.
Events
January
- 1 January
- Greece takes over the presidency of the European Union.
- Latvia becomes the 18th EU member state to adopt the euro despite public opposition.[1][2]
- Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic, is killed in an explosion near his home in Prague.[3][4]
- 7 January – Four U.S. Air Force personnel die after a military helicopter crashes near Cley, on the North Sea coast of England.[5][6]
- 11 January – About 110,000 people march peacefully through Bilbao, demanding Basque independence and freedom for more than 600 ETA prisoners.[7][8]
- 22 January – At least five people are shot dead and hundreds injured as demonstrators clash with police over new laws limiting the right to protest in Ukraine.[9][10][11]
- 23 January – At least 20 people are killed and 28 injured when a bus veers off a road in central Turkey.[12]
- 28 January – Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov submits his resignation to President Viktor Yanukovych in a bid to defuse the conflict in Ukraine.[13][14]
February
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- 2 February
- 4 February – At least 13 people die and five others are injured when a commuter train slams into a shuttle bus in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.[18][19]
- 6 February – More than 130 people, including 104 police officers, are injured in a second day of anti-government demonstrations in the Bosnian town of Tuzla.[20][21]
- 7 February
- The opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games is held in the Russian city of Sochi.[22]
- The earliest human footprints outside Africa are discovered in Norfolk, United Kingdom.[23][24]
- About 30 police officers are injured in the Kosovo capital Pristina in clashes with students protesting over suspicions of fraud in the state university.[25]
- 9 February – In a national referendum, Swiss voters approve re-imposing quotas on immigration from European Union countries.[26][27][28]
- 13 February – Belgium becomes the first country to legalise euthanasia without any age limits.[29][30]
- 14 February – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after pressure from his own Democratic Party to step down.[31][32]
- 18 February – Seven miners are killed and nine injured in an explosion at the Pivnichna coal mine in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast.[33][34]
- 20 February – At least 106 people are dead and large parts of Kiev's occupied Independence Square are burning after a bloody escalation of Ukraine's three-month political crisis.[35][36][37][38]
- 22 February
- The Parliament of Ukraine removes President Viktor Yanukovych from office and frees ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.[39][40] The dismissed President describes measures taken by the Parliament as a "coup".[41]
- The Secretary of the Democratic Party, Matteo Renzi, is appointed Prime Minister of Italy by President Giorgio Napolitano. Renzi is the youngest Prime Minister in the history of Italy.[42]
March
- 1 March – Russian Federation Council approves military intervention in Ukraine amid growing tensions in Crimea.[43][44][45]
- 4 March – After nine years in office, Estonian PM Andrus Ansip announces his resignation to enable a successor to lead his party into 2015 elections.[46]
- 16 March – People in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia. Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States condemn the move.[47][48][49][50]
- 21 March – Russia formally annexes Crimea[51][52] while the European Union and Ukraine sign an association agreement.[53][54]
- 22 March – 101 people are injured and 29 arrested after an anti-austerity march turns violent in Madrid.[55]
- 24 March – The U.S. and Western allies cancel G8 summit in Sochi, excluding Russia from group.[56][57][58]
- 27 March – Turkey blocks access to YouTube after a high-level intelligence leak.[59][60]
- 29 March – Philanthropist Andrej Kiska wins Slovakia's presidential run-off against current Prime Minister Robert Fico.[61][62]
April
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- 4 April – 20 people are injured as protesters from across Europe clash with police in Brussels at a demonstration against high unemployment.[63]
- 7 April – Pro-Russian activists occupying a government building in Donetsk proclaim the creation of a sovereign Donetsk People's Republic, independent from the central government in Kiev.[64][65] The same action is taken by protesters in Kharkiv.[66]
- 10 April – The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe suspends Russia's right to vote and take part in election observations as a consequence to its takeover of Crimea.[67][68]
- 11 April – Seven people are killed when an explosion caused by leaking gas tears through a coal mine near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.[69]
- 12 April – An anti-austerity protest in Rome turns violent, 80 people being injured in clashes between angry protesters and riot police.[70][71]
- 16 April
- The antimaidan protesters in Odessa announce the creation of People's Republic of Odessa and urge residents to block traffic in the city.[72][73]
- The Supreme Soviet of Tiraspol votes unanimously a solicitation to the State Duma, the Federation Council and President Vladimir Putin to recognize Transnistrian independence and annexation to Russia.[74][75] Romanian Foreign Minister condemns vigorously this action, cataloging it as a defiance to Moldova's territorial integrity.[76]
- 27 April – Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints by Pope Francis in the first papal canonization since 1954.[77][78]
- 28 April – Gjorge Ivanov is re-elected President of the Republic of Macedonia, while the ruling coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE win plurality in the Parliament.[79]
May
- 1 May – Large demonstrations are organised in major European cities with the occasion of Labor Day.[80] In Moscow, over 100,000 march through the Red Square, reviving a tradition last seen before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.[81] In Istanbul, 90 people are injured and 142 arrested after security forces assault protesters, using water cannons and tear gas.[82]
- 2 May – The Ukrainian government launches an offensive on pro-Russian rebels in Sloviansk while clashes in Odessa kill 46 people.[83][84]
- 5 May
- Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek resigns after losing the leadership of her party 10 days ago.[85]
- At least 22 people are dead and seven missing after two boats carrying illegal immigrants collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.[86][87]
- 10 May – "Rise Like a Phoenix" by Austrian singer Conchita Wurst wins the Eurovision Song Contest.[88][89][90]
- 12 May – Pro-Russian insurgents in Donetsk and Luhansk declare the cities independent states whilst on choosing to join Russia after controversial hastily arranged referendums.[91]
- 13 May – An explosion and fire in a coal mine in western Turkey kill at least 301 miners[92] and trap dozens more.[93][94][95]
- 17 May – At least 80 people are killed after days of heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding in Southeast Europe.[96][97][98]
- 20 May – A freight train collides with a passenger train near Moscow, killing at least nine people and injuring 51 others.[99][100]
- 22 May – At least 16 Ukrainian soldiers are killed by pro-Russian separatists who ambush their checkpoint in Donetsk Oblast.[101] Hours after the assault on the checkpoint, rebel leaders in neighboring Luhansk impose martial law until government troops cease their offensive.[102]
- 24 May
- Four people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels.[103][104]
- 278 people are injured and dozens of buildings damaged as 6.9 earthquake strikes off Samothrace, Greece.[105]
- "Winter Sleep", directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.[106]
- 25 May
- The pro-European businessman Petro Poroshenko wins the presidential election in Ukraine with 56% of the vote.[107][108]
- Lithuania's incumbent President Dalia Grybauskaitė declares victory following a second round of voting in the Baltic country's presidential elections.[109][110]
- Eurosceptic and far-right parties seize ground in elections to the European parliament, in what France's PM called a "political earthquake".[111]
- 27 May – At least 40 pro-Russian separatists die in fighting over control of Donetsk International Airport.[112]
June
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- 1 June – Slovenian President Borut Pahor dissolves parliament and schedules an early election for 13 July.[113]
- 2 June – Spain's King Juan Carlos abdicates after 38 years on the throne and his son Prince Felipe will succeed him.[114][115] The announcement of the abdication is followed by large anti-monarchy demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona.[116]
- 14 June – A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.[117]
- 16 June – Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine in a dispute over unpaid bills that could disrupt supplies to the rest of Europe.[118][119]
- 20 June – At least 14 people are killed and several are missing after torrential rains cause flash flooding in northeastern Bulgaria.[120][121][122]
- 27 June – Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova sign the European Union Association Agreement.[123][124]
July
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- 2 July – Two migrant boats capsize in the Mediterranean Sea, resulting in the death of 115 people.[125][126]
- 15 July
- 23 people are killed[127] and over 160 injured as several subway cars derail on the Moscow Metro.[128][129]
- The European Parliament votes to elect Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission.[130]
- 17 July – A Malaysian Airlines passenger plane is shot down on the Russian–Ukraine border, killing all 298 people on board.[131][132][133]
- 19 July – A crash involving several buses on a highway in eastern Germany kills 10 people and injures 69.[134]
- 23 July – Bulgaria's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski resigns ahead of snap elections to end months of political turmoil.[135][136]
- 24 July – Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk resigns after the governing coalition collapses.[137]
- 25 July – Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for Regional Policy Volodymyr Groysman is appointed as acting prime minister.[138]
- 28 July – The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration orders Russia to repay US$50 billion to shareholders of the Yukos Oil Company for breaching the Energy Charter Treaty.[139][140]
August
- 10 August – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wins Turkey's first direct presidential election.[141][142]
- 25 August
- The Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls presents President François Hollande with the resignation of the cabinet, with a new cabinet to be appointed next day.[143][144]
- The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko dissolves the Parliament and calls new elections for 26 October.[145]
- 30 August – EU leaders appoint Italy's Federica Mogherini as EU foreign policy chief and Poland's Donald Tusk as European Council president.[146]
- 31 August – Eight people are killed and eleven others injured after an explosion destroys a four-storey building in a suburb of Paris.[147]
September
- 4 September – Over 150 state leaders and officials participate in the Newport Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is the first time a NATO summit will be held in Britain outside London.
- 11 September
- About 500 migrants are feared dead after their ship is rammed by another boat near Malta.[148][149]
- Up to 1.8 million people form a human chain in the largest demonstration for the independence of Catalonia.[150]
- 14 September – The Social Democrats, led by Stefan Löfven, win a plurality in the Swedish general election.[151][152]
- 18 September – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.[153][154][155]
- 21 September – More than 26,000 people in Moscow participate in the largest demonstration so far against Russian president Vladimir Putin and the War in Donbass.[156][157]
October
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- 2 October – A series of powerful blasts at a Bulgarian explosives plant kills 15 employees and injures three others.[158][159]
- 5 October – A truck enters into a column of 40 cars near Thessaloniki, Greece, killing five people and injuring 32.[160]
- 9 October – Estonia becomes the first former Soviet republic to legalize gay partnerships and grant equal rights to same-sex couples.[161]
- 26 October – Pro-Western parties led by Ukraine's PM and president win almost 50% of the votes in the first parliamentary election after the revolution.[162][163][164]
- 29 October – Up to 100,000 Hungarians rally in Budapest despite the government's amendment of a controversial internet tax bill.[165][166][167]
- 30 October – Sweden officially recognises Palestine as a sovereign state.[168]
November
- 2 November – Aleksandr Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky win the general elections held in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.[169][170] Ukraine, the European Parliament and the United States don't recognize these elections.[171]
- 3 November – At least 24 migrants die after their boat sinks in Bosphorus Strait near Istanbul.[172][173]
- 16 November – Klaus Iohannis becomes the first ethnic German President of Romania.[174][175][176]
- 30 November – Pro-European parties in Moldova win a narrow majority of votes in a strongly contested parliamentary election.[177][178][179]
December
- 2 December – French Parliament votes for the recognition of the State of Palestine.[180]
- 4 December – Gunmen attack a police post and storm a building in Grozny, capital of Russia's southern province of Chechnya, killing 10 policemen in clashes in which 10 of the attackers are also killed.[181][182]
- 17 December – European Parliament adopts the resolution on recognition of Palestine statehood by 498 votes in favour.[183]
- 27 December – Andrei Kobyakov replaces Mikhail Myasnikovich as Belarus' new prime minister in the biggest government reshuffle since 2010.[184]
- 29 December – Five people are killed and 414 evacuated as ferry catches fire in the Ionian Sea.[185][186]
Deaths
January
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- 5 January – Eusébio, 71, Portuguese footballer (b. 1942)
- 10 January – Zbigniew Messner, 84, 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1929)
- 11 January - Vugar Gashimov, 27, Azerbaijani chess grandmaster (b. 1986)
- 16 January – Roger Lloyd-Pack, 69, English actor (b. 1944)
- 20 January – Claudio Abbado, 80, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
- 23 January – Riz Ortolani, 87, Italian film composer (b. 1926)
- 25 January – Gyula Sax, 62, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1951)
- 31 January – Miklós Jancsó, 92, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
February
- 1 February
- Luis Aragonés, 75, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
- Maximilian Schell, 83, Austrian-Swiss film and stage actor (b. 1930)
- 10 February
- Stuart Hall, 82, Jamaican-British sociologist (b. 1932)
- 11 February – Alice Babs, 90, Swedish singer and actress (b. 1924)
- 13 February – Richard Møller Nielsen, 76, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1937)
- 14 February – Tom Finney, 91, English footballer (b. 1922)
- 23 February – Alice Herz-Sommer, 110, Czech-British pianist, world's oldest Holocaust survivor (b. 1903)
- 25 February - Mario Coluna, 78, Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1935)
- 26 February – Paco de Lucía, 66, Spanish flamenco composer, guitarist and producer (b. 1947)
March
- 1 March – Alain Resnais, 91, French film director (b. 1922)
- 12 March – Věra Chytilová, 85, Czech film director (b. 1929)
- 14 March – Tony Benn, 88, British politician and diarist (b. 1925)
- 23 March – Adolfo Suárez, 81, 138th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932)
April
- 1 April – Jacques Le Goff, 90, French historian and author (b. 1924)
- 2 April – Urs Widmer, 75, Swiss novelist, playwright and essayist (b. 1938)
- 8 April – Karlheinz Deschner, 89, German researcher and writer (b. 1924)
- 10 April – Sue Townsend, 68, English writer and humorist (b. 1946)
- 24 April
- Hans Hollein, 80, Austrian architect and designer (b. 1934)
- Tadeusz Różewicz, 92, Polish poet, dramatist and writer (b. 1921)
- 27 April – Vujadin Boškov, 82, Serbian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
- 29 April – Bob Hoskins, 71, English actor (b. 1942)
May
- 4 May – Elena Baltacha, 30, Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player (b. 1983)
- 12 May
- Marco Cé, 88, Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church (b. 1925)
- H. R. Giger, 74, Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer (b. 1940)
- 15 May – Jean-Luc Dehaene, 73, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940)
- 18 May
- Dobrica Ćosić, 92, Serbian writer and 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
- Wubbo Ockels, 68, Dutch physicist and astronaut (b. 1946)
- 25 May – Wojciech Jaruzelski, 90, Polish military officer and communist politician (b. 1923)
- 29 May – Karlheinz Böhm, 86, Austrian actor (b. 1928)
June
- 1 June – Valentin Mankin, 75, Ukrainian Olympic sailor (b. 1938)
- 8 June – Alexander Imich, 111, Polish-born American chemist, parapsychologist and supercentenarian (b. 1903)
- 9 June – Rik Mayall, 56, English comedian, writer, actor and voice-over artist (b. 1958)
- 11 June – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, 80, Spanish conductor and composer (b. 1933)
- 13 June – Gyula Grosics, 88, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
- 25 June – Ana María Matute, 88, Spanish writer (b. 1925)
- 30 June – Željko Šturanović, 54, Prime Minister of Montenegro (2006–08) (b. 1960)
July
- 7 July
- Alfredo Di Stéfano, 88, Argentine-Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1926)
- Eduard Shevardnadze, 86, 2nd President of Georgia (b. 1928)
- 11 July – Tommy Ramone, 65, Hungarian-American record producer and musician (b. 1949)
- 13 July – Lorin Maazel, 84, French-American conductor, violinist and composer (b. 1930)
- 25 July – Carlo Bergonzi, 90, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1924)
- 27 July – Francesco Marchisano, 85, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
August
- 1 August – Valyantsin Byalkevich, 41, Belarusian footballer and manager (b. 1973)
- 9 August – Andriy Bal, 56, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1958)
- 11 August
- Vladimir Beara, 85, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
- Pierre Ryckmans, 78, Belgian-Australian writer, sinologist, essayist and literary critic (b. 1935)
- 13 August – Frans Brüggen, 79, Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist (b. 1934)
- 15 August – Licia Albanese, 105, Italian-born American operatic soprano (b. 1909)
- 21 August – Albert Reynolds, 81, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1932)
- 24 August – Richard Attenborough, 90, English actor and film director (b. 1923)
- 28 August – Glenn Cornick, 67, English bass guitarist (b. 1947)
- 29 August – Björn Waldegård, 70, Swedish rally driver (b. 1943)
September
- 1 September – Gottfried John, 72, German actor (b. 1942)
- 4 September – Donatas Banionis, 90, Lithuanian actor (b. 1924)
- 5 September – Wolfhart Pannenberg, 85, German theologian (b. 1928)
- 6 September – Kira Zvorykina, 94, Belarusian chess player (b. 1919)
- 8 September – Magda Olivero, 104, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1910)
- 12 September – Ian Paisley, 88, British politician and First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1926)
- 15 September – Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, 91 (b. 1922)
- 17 September – Andriy Husin, 41, professional Ukrainian football player and coach (b. 1972)
- 20 September – Anatoly Berezovoy, 72, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1942)
- 24 September – Christopher Hogwood, 73, English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist (b. 1941)
- 25 September
- Sulejman Tihić, 62, Bosnian politician (b. 1951)
- Dorothy Tyler-Odam, 94, British athlete (b. 1920)
- 28 September – Dannie Abse, 91, Welsh poet (b. 1923)
October
- 2 October – György Lázár, 90, Hungarian Communist politician and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1975–87) (b. 1924)
- 4 October – Fyodor Cherenkov, 55, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
- 5 October
- Andrea de Cesaris, 55, Italian race car driver (b. 1959)
- Yuri Lyubimov, 97, Russian stage actor and director (b. 1917)
- 6 October – Igor Mitoraj, 70, Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
- 7 October – Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer (b. 1926)
- 16 October – John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, 88, British peer and educator (b. 1926)
- 23 October – Tullio Regge, 83, Italian theoretical physicist (b. 1931)
- 25 October – Jack Bruce, 71, Scottish musician and composer (b. 1943)
- 29 October
- Rainer Hasler, 56, Liechtensteiner footballer (b. 1958)
- Klas Ingesson, 46, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1968)
November
- 2 November
- Acker Bilk, 85, English clarinettist and vocalist (b. 1929)
- Veljko Kadijević, 88, general of the Yugoslav People's Army (b. 1925)
- 12 November – Warren Clarke, 67, English actor (b. 1947)
- 13 November – Alexander Grothendieck, 86, German-born French mathematician (b. 1928)
- 14 November – Eugene Dynkin, 90, Russian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)
- 16 November – Serge Moscovici, 89, Romanian-born French social psychologist (b. 1925)
- 19 November – Mike Nichols, 83, German-born American film and theatre director, producer, actor and comedian (b. 1931)
- 20 November – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, 88, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1926)
- 22 November – Fiorenzo Angelini, 98, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1916)
- 24 November – Viktor Tikhonov, 84, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)
- 27 November – P. D. James, 94, English writer and life peer (b. 1920)
December
- 3 December
- Jacques Barrot, 77, French politician, European Commissioner for Justice (2008–10) (b. 1937)
- Ian McLagan, 69, English keyboard instrumentalist (b. 1945)
- 5 December – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, 86 (b. 1928)
- 8 December – Knut Nystedt, 99, Norwegian composer (b. 1915)
- 18 December – Virna Lisi, 78, Italian actress (b. 1936)
- 21 December
- Åke Johansson, 86, Swedish footballer (b. 1928)
- Udo Jurgens, 80, Austrian composer and singer (b. 1934)
- Billie Whitelaw, 82, English actress (b. 1932)
- 22 December – Joe Cocker, 70, English singer (b. 1944)
- 26 December – Leo Tindemans, 92, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)
- 27 December – Tomaz Salamun, 73, Slovenian poet (b. 1941)
- 30 December – Luise Rainer, 104, German-born American actress (b. 1910)
- 31 December – Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington (b. 1915)
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