The following lists events that happened during

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in the

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Incumbents

* President – Ivo Josipović * Prime Minister – Zoran Milanović * Speaker –

Josip Leko Josip Leko (born 19 September 1948) is a Croatian politician who served as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 2012 to 2015. Biography He was born in 1948 in Plavna village ( Bač municipality) in Bačka, Serbia (then Yugoslavia) to a Croa ...

Events

May

*13 May:

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spread across the Southeast of Europe. *19 May:

2014 Southeast Europe floods Between 13 and 18 May 2014 a low-pressure cyclone designated ''Tamara'' and ''Yvette'' affected a large area of Southeastern and Central Europe, causing floods and landslides. Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina suffered the greatest damage, as the ...

**Around 15,000 people in easternmost parts of Croatia were evacuated from their homes.

August

*5 August: Croatian MiG-21 jet crashes 20 km south of Zagreb, with no injuries or fatalities.

September

*5 September: First life partnership in Croatia was registered.

October

*19 October: Milan Bandić, the mayor of Zagreb, is arrested over charges of corruption.

December

* December 28 - The Croatian presidential election goes to a run-off between incumbent Ivo Josipović and challenger Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović.

Sport

*8 September: Marin Čilić wins the 2014 US Open.

Deaths

* January 1 –

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, conductor * January 7 – Ivan Ladislav Galeta, multimedia artist * January 12 – Zdenko Škrabalo, physician and diplomat * March 4 – Maja Petrin, actress * April 3 – Jovan Pavlović, Metropolitan of the

Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches. The majori ...

* May 11 – Martin Špegelj, general * May 29 –

Miljenko Prohaska Miljenko Prohaska (17 September 1925 – 29 May 2014) was a Croatian composer, arrangement, music arranger and Conducting, orchestra conductor. He was mainly known for founding a number of prominent Croatian orchestras and for his longtime serv ...

, composer and conductor * August 11 –

Vladimir Beara Vladimir Beara (; 26 August 1928 – 11 August 2014) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper and manager. He played the vast majority of his professional club career for Hajduk Split and Red Star Belgrade in the Yugoslav Federal League and for the Yu ...

, footballer and football manager * August 28 –

Ivan Ivančić Ivan Ivančić (6 December 1937 – 28 August 2014) was a Croatian athletics coach and shot putter who represented Yugoslavia. He was the gold medalist in the 1975 Mediterranean Games, as well as a multiple national champion and record holder. As ...

, athletics coach * October 9 –

Boris Buzančić Boris Buzančić (13 March 1929 – 9 October 2014) was a Croatian actor and politician who served as the 47th Mayor of Zagreb between 1990 and 1993. A native of Bjelovar, Buzančić began acting very early. He appeared in numerous films and TV ...

, actor and politician * October 9 –

Ana Karić Ana Karić (; 13 May 1941 – 9 October 2014) was a Croatian actress. She started acting in the early 1960s even before graduating from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art in 1963. Although primarily a television actress, she also appeared in nu ...

, actress

References

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