2011 in Europe
This is a list of 2011 events that occurred in Europe.
Events
January
March
- March 26: At least 138 people were detained in a large protest march against planned public spending cuts by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in the city of London.[6][7]
April
May
June
- June 2: Four people have been killed in a major explosion at an oil refinery in south-west Wales.[18]
- June 20: More than 300 people were injured in a sectarian interface near a Catholic enclave in east Belfast.[19]
- June 21: 44 people have died in a plane crash in north-west Russia. Another eight have been taken to hospital with serious injuries.[20]
July
August
- August 9: A Russian cargo plane has crashed in a remote far eastern area, with all 11 people on board believed to have been killed.[28]
- August 12: A passenger train has crashed in central Poland, killing one passenger and injuring at least 81.[29]
September
- September 7: At least 45 people died when a plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team crashed during take-off.[30]
- September 15: Four miners died after the Gleision Colliery was flooded by the waters of River Tawe due to an explosion.[31][32]
- September 26: Two people have been killed and six others injured in ethnic clashes in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.[33]
October
- October 15: About 200,000 people gathered in Rome, Italy, to protest against economic inequality and the influence of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund on politics and also against the government of Silvio Berlusconi.[34] The protest turned into a violent demonstration, resulting in the injury of 135 people and the arresting of 13 others.[35]
- October 20: Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declared an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968.[36]
- October 23: At least 604 people were killed and more than 4,152 injured in a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, near the city of Van, Turkey.[37]
- October 24: 17 people died in Western European unprecedented floods, caused by low-pressure area Meeno.[38]
- October 27: After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announced an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis which includes a writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility totaling to €1 trillion.[39][40]
November
- November 4: Seven people have been killed and 51 injured in a 34-vehicle pile-up on the M5 motorway in Somerset.[41]
- November 9: A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck south-west of Van, causing the death of over 12 people in the collapse of several hotels.[42]
December
- December 18: A jack-up rig capsized and sank in the Sea of Okhotsk with the loss of 53 of its 67 crew.[43]
Architecture
- March 29: London Olympic Stadium, designed by Populous, is completed.
- May 5: Tour First, previously known as Tour AXA, becomes the tallest building in France, with a total height of 231 m.
- June 20: Glasgow Riverside Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, opens as the new development of the Museum of Transport.
- July 27: London Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid, is completed.
- October 28: ArcelorMittal Orbit, designed by Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond, erected at Olympic Park, London.
Arts and entertainment
Deaths
January
- January 2: Pete Postlethwaite, 64, English stage, film and television actor. (born 1946)
- January 4: Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer and songwriter. (born 1947)
- January 15
- Nat Lofthouse, 85, English professional footballer. (born 1925)
- Susannah York, 72, English film, stage and television actress. (born 1939)
- January 24: Bernd Eichinger, 61, German film producer and director. (born 1949)
- January 30: John Barry, 77, English conductor and composer of film music. (born 1933)
February
- February 3: Maria Schneider, 58, French actress. (born 1952)
- February 5: Brian Jacques, 71, English author. (born 1939)
- February 6: Gary Moore, 58, Northern Irish musician. (born 1952)
- February 8: Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian basketball player and coach, and water polo player. (born 1923)
- February 14: George Shearing, 91, British-born American jazz pianist. (born 1919)
- February 27: Necmettin Erbakan, 84, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1926)
March
- March 4: Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch Nobel physicist. (born 1925)
- March 6: Ján Popluhár, 75, Slovak footballer. (born 1935)
- March 17: Michael Gough, 94, English character actor. (born 1916)
- March 21: Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Russian gymnast. (born 1952)
- March 23
- Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-born American actress. (born 1932)
- Teodor Negoiţă, 63, Romanian polar region explorer. (born 1947)
- March 26
April
- April 19: Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon runner. (born 1953)
May
- May 7: Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish professional golfer. (born 1957)
- May 19: Garret FitzGerald, 85, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland. (born 1926)
- May 24: Fănuș Neagu, 79, Romanian author and memoirist. (born 1932)
- May 29
- Sergei Bagapsh, 62, 2nd President of the Republic of Abkhazia. (born 1949)
- Ferenc Mádl, 80, 2nd President of Hungary. (born 1931)
June
July
August
- August 7
- Harri Holkeri, 74, 57th Prime Minister of Finland. (born 1937)
- Nancy Wake, 98, New Zealand-born French Resistance fighter. (born 1912)
- August 16: Andrej Bajuk, 67, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. (born 1943)
- August 31: Valery Rozhdestvensky, 72, Russian cosmonaut. (born 1939)
September
- September 7 - Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavi air disaster
- Vitaly Anikeyenko, 24, Ukrainian-Russian hockey player. (born 1987)
- Mikhail Balandin, 31, Russian hockey player. (born 1980)
- Gennady Churilov, 24, Russian hockey player. (born 1987)
- Pavol Demitra, 36, Slovakian hockey player. (born 1974)
- Robert Dietrich, 25, Kazakhstani-German hocker player. (born 1986)
- Marat Kalimulin, 23, Russian hockey player. (born 1988)
- Alexander Kalyanin, 23, Russian hockey player. (born 1987)
- Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russian hockey player. (born 1970)
- Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, Russian hockey player. (born 1987)
- Nikita Klyukin, 21, Russian hockey player. (born 1989)
- Igor Korolev, 41, Russian hockey player. (born 1970)
- Stefan Liv, 30, Polish-born Swedish hockey player. (born 1980)
- Jan Marek, 31, Czech hockey player. (born 1979)
- Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, Belarusian hockey player. (born 1990)
- Karel Rachunek, 32, Czech hockey player. (born 1979)
- Ruslan Salei, 36, Belarusian hockey player. (born 1974)
- Maxim Shuvalov, 18, Russian hockey player. (born 1993)
- Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, Latvian hockey player. (born 1974)
- Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, Russian hockey player. (born 1992)
- Daniil Sobchenko, 20, Ukrainian-Russian hockey player. (born 1991)
- Ivan Tkachenko, 31, Russian hockey player. (born 1979)
- Pavel Trakhanov, 33, Russian hockey player. (born 1978)
- Yuri Urychev, 20, Russian hockey player. (born 1991)
- Josef Vasicek, 30, Czech hockey player. (born 1980)
- Alexander Vasyunov, 23, Russian hockey player. (born 1988)
- Alexander Vyukhin, 38, Ukrainian-Russian hockey player. (born 1973)
- Artem Yarchuk, 21, Russian hockey player. (born 1990)
- September 11: Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh Australian actor and model. (born 1972)
- September 12: Alexander Galimov, 26, Russian hockey player. (born 1985)
- September 13: Richard Hamilton, 89, British painter and collage artist. (born 1922)
- September 14: Rudolf Mössbauer, 82, German Nobel physicist. (born 1929)
- September 19: Johnny Răducanu, 79, Romanian jazz pianist. (born 1931)
- September 27: Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect. (born 1935)
October
- October 1: Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player. (born 1931)
- October 7: Ramiz Alia, 85, 1st President of Albania. (born 1925)
- October 16: Dan Wheldon, 33, English racing driver. (born 1978)
- October 23: Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian professional motorcycle racer. (born 1987)
- October 29: Jimmy Savile, 84, English DJ, television presenter, media personality and charity fundraiser. (born 1926)
- October 31: Flórián Albert, 70, Hungarian international footballer. (born 1941)
November
- November 8: Valentin Ivanov, 76, Russian footballer. (born 1934)
- November 22: Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, 88. (born 1922)
- November 25: Vasily Alekseyev, 69, Russian weightlifter. (born 1942)
- November 27
- Ken Russell, 84, English film director. (born 1927)
- Gary Speed, 42, Welsh footballer and manager. (born 1969)
- November 28: Ante Marković, 87, 9th Prime Minister of SFR Yugoslavia. (born 1924)
December
- December 1: Christa Wolf, 82, German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. (born 1929)
- December 5: Violetta Villas, 73, Belgian-born Polish singer and actress. (born 1938)
- December 15: Christopher Hitchens, 62, British American author and journalist. (born 1949)
- December 18: Václav Havel, 75, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic. (born 1936)
- December 24: Johannes Heesters, 108, Dutch actor, singer and entertainer. (born 1903)
References
- ↑ "Estonia becomes 17th member of the euro zone", BBC News
- ↑ "Three killed as Albanian police clash with protesters", BBC News
- ↑ "Suicide bomber kills 35 at Russia's biggest airport", Reuters
- ↑ "Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia's Domodedovo airport", BBC News
- ↑ "German train crash near Magdeburg leaves 10 dead", BBC News
- ↑ "Why did police charge only 11 rioters over the anti-cuts protests?", The Independent
- ↑ "Demonstrators swarm central London to protest spending cuts", CNN
- ↑ "Freak sandstorm causes deadly accident in northeastern Germany", DW.de
- ↑ "Royal wedding: The world watches William and Kate", BBC News
- ↑ "Magnitude 5.1 – Spain", U.S. Geological Survey
- ↑ "Spain shocked by deadly earthquake", The Guardian
- ↑ "Portugal's 78bn euro bail-out is formally approved", BBC News
- ↑ "Bodies found near site of protests in Georgia", The New York Times
- ↑ "Iceland's Grímsvötn volcano starts new eruption", BBC News
- ↑ "Three Russian tourists die in Turkish alcohol poisoning", BBC News
- ↑ "Ratko Mladić: war crimes fugitive arrested in Serbia", The Telegraph
- ↑ "Spanish police clashed with protesters", Aljazeera
- ↑ "Four people killed in Wales oil refinery explosion", The Guardian
- ↑ "Belfast violence flares again as police attacked", BBC News
- ↑ "Air crash in north-west Russia claims 44 lives", RussiaToday
- ↑ "At least 55 dead, dozens missing after ship sinks in Russia", CNN
- ↑ "Serbia arrests last Balkan war crimes fugitive", USA Today
- ↑ "Bomb blast, youth-camp gunman devastate Norway; at least 87 dead", The Wall Street Journal
- ↑ "At least 80 dead in Norway shooting", The New York Times
- ↑ "Norway attacks: Police search farm for clues after shooting, explosion leave 94 dead", The Washington Post
- ↑ "Mine explosion in Ukraine kills 17", The New York Times
- ↑ "Elevator collapse kills one, injuries 8 in east Ukrainian mine", Xinhua
- ↑ "Russian cargo plane crash in Magadan kills 11", BBC News
- ↑ "Poland: Train passenger killed in derailment", BBC News
- ↑ "Russian ice hockey team wiped out in plane crash", RIA Novosti
- ↑ "The day hope died: No survivors in mining disaster", The Independent
- ↑ "Four miners trapped in Swansea Valley mine, three freed", BBC News
- ↑ "Bulgaria's President, PM unite to assuage ethnic tension fears", Novinite.com
- ↑ "Rome descends into chaos as protests turn violent", RussiaToday
- ↑ "Violent protests in Italian capital", The Irish Times
- ↑ "ETA expected to announce definitive end to four decades of violence", The Guardian
- ↑ "Magnitude 7.1 – Eastern Turkey", U.S. Geological Survey
- ↑ "Weatherwatch: Heavy rain storms sweep cars away", The Guardian
- ↑ "Leaders agree eurozone debt deal after late-night talks", BBC News
- ↑ "EU leaders reach a deal to tackle debt crisis", USA Today
- ↑ "Seven confirmed dead in M5 accident in Somerset", BBC News
- ↑ "Aid worker one of at least 12 dead in latest Turkey quake", USA Today
- ↑ "Rescuers call off Russian Far East oil rig search", RIA Novosti