Events during the year 2008 in Poland.

Incumbents

Events

January

* 23 January –

Mirosławiec air disaster Mirosławiec (german: Märkisch Friedland; csb, Frédlądk) is a town in Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,837 inhabitants (2007). The 12th Air Base of the Polish Air Force is located north of the town. Mirosławiec ...

; an EADS CASA C-295 military transport plane crashed as it approached the

Mirosławiec Mirosławiec (german: Märkisch Friedland; csb, Frédlądk) is a town in Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,837 inhabitants (2007). The 12th Air Base of the Polish Air Force is located north of the town. Mirosławiec ...

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 represents one of the largest coal reserve in Poland having estimated reserves of 34 m ...

August

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

Deaths

July

* 10 July:

Krystyna Kersten Krystyna Kersten (penname, Jan Bujnowski; born May 25, 1931 in Poznań – July 10, 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian and a professor at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Fellow of Collegium Invisibile. Born in Pozn ...

, Polish historian. * 13 July: Bronisław Geremek, Polish politician, died in a car accident. * 14 July: Antoni Heda, Polish general and partisan.