2014 in Europe

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]
• 28 January – Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov submits his resignation to President Viktor Yanukovych in a bid to defuse the conflict in Ukraine.^[12][13]

February

Anti-government protest in Zenica

• 2 February
  • A referendum on Gagauzia's independence from Moldova is held with 98.9 percent of voters supporting Gagauzia's self-determination.^[14] The authorities from Chișinău declare it illegal.^[15]
  • Up to 500,000 people protest on the boulevards of Paris and Lyon against same-sex marriage.^[16]
• 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.^[17][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][20]

Deaths

January

• 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)
• 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)

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