2022 In Poland

Events in the year 2022 in Poland.

Incumbents

* President: Andrzej Duda
* Prime Minister: Mateusz Morawiecki
* Marshal of the Sejm: Elżbieta Witek
* Marshal of the Senate: Tomasz Grodzki

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Poland

January-February

* 5 January – President Andrzej Duda tests positive for COVID-19 for the second time. He previously tested positive in October 2020.
* 6 January – The Far right nationalist Confederation Liberty and Independence party Facebook page is taken down by Facebook.
* 11 January – Poland surpasses 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the 15th nation to do so.
* 21 January – Poland reports a record 36,665 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,443,217.
* 22 January – Poland reports a record for the second consecutive day of 40,876 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,484,095.
* 26 January – Poland reports a record 53,420 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,637,776.
* 8 February – Poland indefinitely postpones its deadline of March 1 for mandatory full vaccination of teachers, members of the army and police officers because it cannot be met.
* 18 February – U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announces the sale of 250 M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Poland amid tensions with Russia. The Polish Land Forces will become the first European military to operate the American M1 Abrams.
* 26 February – Poland says that around 100,000 Ukrainians have crossed the border since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.

March-April

* 23 March – Poland expels 45 staff of the Russian embassy in Warsaw for "spying activities"
* 11 March – Sejm passes the Homeland Defence Act, increasing the number of active personnel, increasing defence spending, modernizing the army and introducing voluntary basic military recruit training.
* 14 April – United Poland calls for tougher blasphemy laws in Poland, such as three-year jail terms for insulting church or interrupting mass.

May-June

* 27 June - Completed transition of the digital terrestrial television broadcasting standard from DVB-T / MPEG-4 to DVB-T2 / HEVC

July-August

* 1 August - state-owned Oil Company PKN Orlen finalised the merger with state-owned Oil Company Lotos.
* 11 August - 2022 Oder environmental disaster
* 26 August – 11 September: 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship co-hosted by the Netherlands and Poland

September-October

* 1 September – Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice party, announced the government's intent to officially demand that the German government pay 6.2 trillion zł ($1.32 trillion) in reparations.
* 27 September – Baltic Pipe is commissioned.
* 7 October – United Poland and Zbigniew Ziobro submit a citizens' legislative initiative for the tougher blasphemy laws with close to 400,000 (Higher than the 100,000 needed) signatures to parliament.
* 9 October – Three people are killed when a wooden tourist boat carrying 14 people capsizes in Gdańsk.
* 10 October – state-controlled oil and gas company, PGNiG Shareholders approve the company's takeover by state-owned Oil Company PKN Orlen, this came after PKN Orlen Shareholders done the same.
* 12 October – Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice party, says that the Polish Pis government might buy PKP Energetyka and Żabka convenience store from CVC Capital Partners.

November-December

* 2 November – Poland's Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak announces the construction of a barrier along the border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, as Poland believes that Russia will use the border to illegally transport African and Asian immigrants to Europe.
* 15 November – Two missiles impact the territory of Poland near the village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine.
* 17 November – Germany offers to deploy German Air Force jets to protect Polish airspace in response to the missile strike on Przewodów, Lublin Voivodeship, which killed two people.
* 22 November – Germany says it will deploy Patriot surface-to-air missile systems on the Poland–Ukraine border. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak says he has accepted the German proposal.

Deaths

January

* 1 January — Janusz Łęski, film director (b. 1930)
* 3 January — Zbigniew Łój, Olympic field hockey player (b. 1945)
* 5 January — Marian Machowski, footballer (b. 1932)
* 7 January — John Swantek, American Polish Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
* 11 January — Jerzy Głowacki, Olympic cyclist (b. 1950)
* 19 January
** Antonina Girycz — actress (b. 1939)
** Stanisław Grędziński, Olympic sprinter (b. 1945)
* 21 January — Czesław Krakowski, politician (b. 1950)
* 23 January
** Barbara Krafftówna, actress (b. 1928)
** Zofia Walasek, Olympic middle-distance runner (b. 1933)
* 24 January — Tadeusz Bradecki, actor (b. 1955)
* 26 January — Jan Michalik, Olympic wrestler (b. 1948)

February

* 1 February — Stanisław Olejniczak, Olympic basketball player (b. 1938)
* 3 February — Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, writer and literary critic (b. 1935)
* 4 February — Jerzy Osiatyński, politician (b. 1941)
* 6 February
** Ryszard Kubiak, Olympic rowing coxswain (b. 1950)
** Zdzisław Jan Ryn, psychiatrist and diplomat (b. 1939)
* 7 February
** Jerzy Bartmiński, linguist and ethnologist (b. 1939)
** Zbigniew Namysłowski, jazz musician and composer (b. 1939)
** Andrzej Rapacz, Olympic biathlete (b. 1948)
* 8 February — Krzysztof Kuszewski, epidemiologist and state official (b. 1940)
* 9 February — Jan Magiera, Olympic cyclist (b. 1938)
* 10 February
** Roman Kostrzewski, heavy metal musician (b. 1960)
** Stefan Żywotko, football manager (b. 1920)
* 14 February — Daniel Passent, journalist and writer (b. 1938)
* 15 February — Józef Zapędzki, Olympic sport shooter (b. 1929)
* 18 February
** Witold Paszt, singer (b. 1953)
** Zdzisław Podkański, politician (b. 1949)
* 20 February — Krystyna Meissner, theatre director (b. 1933)
* 24 February — Jan Gomola, footballer (b. 1941)

March

* 13 March
** Pawel Kwiek, photographer (b. 1951)
** Adam Odzimek, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1944)
* 16 March — Józef Różański, politician (b. 1931)
* 17 March — Piotr Drzewiecki, footballer (b. 1950)
* 19 March — Marian Zembala, surgeon, academic and politician (b. 1950)
* 22 March — Edmund Michał Piszcz, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1929)
* 23 March — Andrzej Cwojdziński, conductor, composer and music teacher (b. 1928)
* 26 March — Teofil Wilski, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
* 30 March
** Andrzej Butra, veterinarian and politician (b. 1961)
** Egon Franke, Olympic fencer (b. 1935)
* 31 March
** Andrzej Bujakiewicz, conductor and teacher (b. 1939)
** Marek Pasionek, lawyer and government official (b. 1961)

April

* 1 April
** Ryszard Frąckiewicz, diplomat, ambassador to Australia and Japan (b. 1931)
** Jolanta Lothe, actress (b. 1942)
* 3 April — Andrzej Wiśniewski, football coach (b. 1956)
* 5 April — Stanisław Kowalski, masters athlete, nation's oldest living man (since 2018) (b. 1910)
* 7 April — Ludwik Dorn, politician (b. 1954)
* 18 April — Andrzej Korzyński, composer (b. 1940)
* 20 April — Erwina Ryś-Ferens, four-time Olympic speed skater (b. 1955)
* 27 April — Adam Lepa, Roman Catholic prelate and theologian (b. 1939)

May

* 4 May —
** Zbigniew Kicka