2014 in Europe

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This is a list of 2014 events that occurred in Europe.

Events[]

January[]

Violent clashes between protesters and police on Hrushevskoho Street, Kiev
  • 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[]

Angry protesters set fire to the building of the Government of Tuzla Canton.
2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Labor Unions' House, used as Euromaidan headquarters, on fire following police raid
  • 2 February
    • A referendum on Gagauzia's independence from Moldova is held with 98.9 percent of voters supporting Gagauzia's self-determination.[15] The authorities from Chișinău declare it illegal.[16]
    • Up to 500,000 people protest on the boulevards of Paris and Lyon against same-sex marriage.[17]
  • 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]
  • 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.[19]
  • 7 February
  • 9 February – In a national referendum, Swiss voters approve re-imposing quotas on immigration from European Union countries.[23][24][25]
  • 13 February – Belgium becomes the first country to legalise euthanasia without any age limits.[26]
  • 14 February – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after pressure from his own Democratic Party to step down.[27][28]
  • 18 February – Seven miners are killed and nine injured in an explosion at the Pivnichna coal mine in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast.[29][30]
  • 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.[31][32][33]
  • 22 February
    • The Parliament of Ukraine removes President Viktor Yanukovych from office and frees ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.[34][35] The dismissed President describes measures taken by the Parliament as a "coup".[36]
    • 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.[37]

March[]

March for Dignity in Plaza de Colón, Madrid
  • 1 March – Russian Federation Council approves military intervention in Ukraine amid growing tensions in Crimea.[38][39][40]
  • 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.[41]
  • 16 March – People in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia. Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States condemn the move.[42][43][44]
  • 21 March – Russia formally annexes Crimea[45][46] while the European Union and Ukraine sign an association agreement.[47][48]
  • 22 March – 101 people are injured and 29 arrested after an anti-austerity march turns violent in Madrid.[citation needed]
  • 24 March – The U.S. and Western allies cancel G8 summit in Sochi, excluding Russia from group.[49][50][51]
  • 27 March – Turkey blocks access to YouTube after a high-level intelligence leak.[52][53]
  • 29 March – Philanthropist Andrej Kiska wins Slovakia's presidential run-off against current Prime Minister Robert Fico.[54][55]

April[]

Checkpoint in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, during the Sloviansk standoff
Huge crowds attending the canonization ceremony of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II
  • 4 April – 20 people are injured as protesters from across Europe clash with police in Brussels at a demonstration against high unemployment.[56]
  • 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.[57] The same action is taken by protesters in Kharkiv.[citation needed]
  • 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.[58][59]
  • 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.[60]
  • 12 April – An anti-austerity protest in Rome turns violent, 80 people being injured in clashes between angry protesters and riot police.[61]
  • 16 April
    • Pro-Russian separatists in Odessa announced the creation of Odessa People's Republic and urged residents to block traffic in the city.[62]
    • 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.[63][64] Romanian Foreign Minister condemns vigorously this action, cataloging it as a defiance to Moldova's territorial integrity.[65]
  • 27 April – Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints by Pope Francis in the first papal canonization since 1954.[66][67]
  • 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.[68]

May[]

Conchita Wurst, the winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Rescue effort after the Soma mine disaster
Flooding damage in Krupanj, Serbia

June[]

Republican manifestation in Madrid in the aftermath of King Juan Carlos' abdication
  • 1 June – Slovenian President Borut Pahor dissolves parliament and schedules an early election for 13 July.[98]
  • 2 June – Spain's King Juan Carlos abdicates after 38 years on the throne and his son Prince Felipe will succeed him.[99][100] The announcement of the abdication is followed by large anti-monarchy demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona.[citation needed]
  • 14 June – A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.[citation needed]
  • 16 June – Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine in a dispute over unpaid bills that could disrupt supplies to the rest of Europe.[101][102]
  • 20 June – At least 14 people are killed and several are missing after torrential rains cause flash flooding in northeastern Bulgaria.[103][104]
  • 27 June – Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova sign the European Union Association Agreement.[105][106]

July[]

Makeshift memorial at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport for the victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  • 2 July – Two migrant boats capsize in the Mediterranean Sea, resulting in the death of 115 people.[107][108]
  • 15 July
  • 17 July – A Malaysian Airlines passenger plane is shot down on the Russian–Ukraine border, killing all 298 people on board.[112][113]
  • 19 July – A crash involving several buses on a highway in eastern Germany kills 10 people and injures 69.[114]
  • 23 July – Bulgaria's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski resigns ahead of snap elections to end months of political turmoil.[115][116]
  • 24 July – Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk resigns after the governing coalition collapses.[117]
  • 25 July – Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for Regional Policy Volodymyr Groysman is appointed as acting prime minister.[118]
  • 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.[119][120]

August[]

Apartment building in Lysychansk destroyed during War in Donbass.

September[]

High officials taking part in the NATO Summit of Newport
1.8 million people took part in the Catalan Way.
Rally in Moscow against Russian military intervention in Ukraine
  • 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
  • 14 September – The Social Democrats, led by Stefan Löfven, win a plurality in the Swedish general election.[131][132]
  • 18 September – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.[133][134][135]
  • 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.[136][137]

October[]

Demonstration against the tax on internet in Budapest, 26 October

November[]

December[]

  • 2 December – French Parliament votes for the recognition of the State of Palestine.[156]
  • 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.[157]
  • 17 December – European Parliament adopts the resolution on recognition of Palestine statehood by 498 votes in favour.[158]
  • 27 December – Andrei Kobyakov replaces Mikhail Myasnikovich as Belarus' new prime minister in the biggest government reshuffle since 2010.[159]
  • 29 December – Five people are killed and 414 evacuated as ferry catches fire in the Ionian Sea.[160][161]

Deaths[]

Main article: Deaths in 2014

January[]

Eusébio
  • 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[]

Adolfo Suárez
  • 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
  • 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[]

Eduard Shevardnadze
  • 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
  • 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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