2015 in Lithuania
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Events in the year 2015 in Lithuania.
Incumbents
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[edit | edit source]January
[edit | edit source]- 1 January - Lithuania adopts the Euro and joins Eurozone.[1]
- 1 January - first commercial operations in Klaipėda LNG FSRU.[2]
- 1 January - National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania was established.[3]
- 1 January - Suicide Prevention Centre of Lithuania was established.[4][5]
- 15 January - a big storm left 15,000 people without electricity, mostly in Klaipėda county.[6]
- 16 January - second honorary consulate of Estonia in Lithuania was opened in the city of Kaunas.[7]
- 26 January - Israel opened its embassy in Vilnius.[8]
- 28 January - the Vilnius People's Rupublic internet hoax was initiated.[9]
February
[edit | edit source]- 6 February - honorary consulate of India in Lithuania was opened in the capital city of Vilnius.[10]
- 9 February - Aistė Diržiūtė becomes the first Lithuanian actress to win Shooting Stars Award.[11]
- 28 February - Lithuania signs a trade agreement to buy liquefied natural gas from the United States in a move aimed at reducing heavy dependence on Russian gas deliveries.[12]
March
[edit | edit source]- 1 March - Municipal elections held in Lithuania with first ever direct mayoral elections held together.[13][14]
- 18 March - Polish-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce was established.[15][16]
- 19 March - Lithuanian Parliament Seimas voted in favour of conscription restitution.[17][18]
- 20 March - NATO general Jean-Paul Palomeros has signed the NATO-Lithuanian agreement on the legal status of NATO command and control centres in Lithuania.[19]
- 25 March - Lithuania's Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius opposed of proposed same-sex partnerships legalization.[20]
- 29 March - archaeologists announced about the thousand-year-old grave discovery near the village of Kvietiniai, Klaipėda District Municipality.[21]
April
[edit | edit source]- 9 April - Lithuania was invited to start accession talks with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.[22]
- 13 April - Darius Jauniškis appointed as the head of the State Security Department.[23]
- 14 April - International Monetary Fund (IMF) classified Lithuania as advanced economy.[24]
- 17 April - Opened a new Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Richmond, Virginia, United States.[25]
- 23 April - Lithuania banned wearing separate elements of military uniforms and insignia in public.[26]
- 28 April - Lithuania opens honorary consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.[27]
May
[edit | edit source]- 4 May - Biggest stadium in the country - Žalgiris Stadium was sold for redevelopment and eventually de-establishment.[28]
- 7 May - President Dalia Grybauskaitė rejected Vydas Gedvilas as candidate for education minister.[29]
- 9 May - Moody‘s upgraded Lithuanian credit rating to A3.[30]
- 15 May - district heating plant opened in Elektrėnai, that is operating on biofeuls.[31]
- 16 May - 2 Lithuanian pilots died in aviation accident when Klaipėda Avialines plane Antonov An-2 dropped down to the Baltic Sea.[32]
- 23 May - Air Lituanica, Lithuanian airline owned by the municipality of Vilnius, has announced that it is stopping operations.[33]
- 26 May - Vilnius Intermodal Terminal was opened.[34]
- 27 May - Audronė Pitrėnienė appointed as education and science minister of Lithuania.[35]
June
[edit | edit source]- 1 June - Lithuanian General Consulate opened in Los Angeles, United States [36]
- 1 June - Laima Jurevičienė appointed as country's new ambassador to the Council of Europe.[37]
- 7 June - Klaipėda Port announces start of international container distribution centre.[38]
- 9 June - cable laying works of NordBalt were completed.[39]
- 18 June - in Batumi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Tamar Beruchashvili opened a second Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Georgia.[40]
Deaths
[edit | edit source]- 29 March - Petras Dirgėla, writer and recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize in 2003.[41]
- 3 April - Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas, politician and signer of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.[42]
- 6 April - Romualdas Ozolas, politician and signer of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.[43]
- 6 October - Stasys Povilaitis, variety songs singer, maestro.[44]
- 8 October - Galina Dauguvietytė, actor, TV director.[45]
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