Poland

Republic of Poland
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Location  Europe
Capital  Warsaw
Area  312,685 sq km
Population  38,420,687

"All things come to those that wait"
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January

January 1 January 2 January 3 January 4 January 5 January 6 January 7 January 8 January 9 January 10 January 11 January 12 Lukas Kubot of Poland and Marcelo Melo of Brazil won the men’s doubles tittle at the 2018 Sydney International Tennis tournament beating Jan-Leanard Struff and Viktor Troicki 6-3 6-4 in the final. January 13 January 14 January 15 An international team of astronomers, including researchers from Poland, have spotted a cosmic explosion about 200 times more powerful than a typical supernova, as published on 15 January 2016 in the journal Science. At its peak intensity, the explosion—called ASASSN-15lh—shone with 570 billion times the luminosity of the Sun. January 16 January 17 Bayern Muninch's Polish striker Robert Lewandowski was crowned as The Best FIFA Men’s Player for 2021 on 17 January 2022 at the Home of FIFA in Zurich. January 18 January 19 January 20 January 21 January 22 January 23 January 24 January 25 Poland's Lukasz Kubot and Sweden's Robert Lindstedt won the 2014 Australian Open tennis men's doubles title in their first Grand Slam as a team, beating American Eric Butorac and South Africa's Raven Klaasen 6-3, 6-3. January 26 January 27 January 28 January 29 January 30 January 31

February

February 1 February 2 Aleksander Doba of Poland became the first person to paddle a kayak alone using only muscle power from continent to continent across the Atlantic Ocean traveling 5394 kilometers in a 7 meter-long ocean kayak. He completed his epic journey of 99 days, 6 hours and 20 minutes on February 2, 2011 when he reached Acarau, Brazil at 17:50 local time. Aleksander was 65 years old when he accomplished this achievement. February 3 Polish athlete Adam Cieslar won gold in the Men’s Nordic combined Mass start at the 2017 Winter Universiade in Almaty city. February 4 February 5 February 6 February 7 February 8 February 9 Poland's Kamil Stoch won gold in the Men's Normal Hill ski jumping at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. February 10 February 11 February 12 February 13 February 14 February 15 February 16 February 17 February 18 Polish film Spoor won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on 18 February 2017. February 19 Kamil Stoch of Poland won gold in Men's Ski Jumping at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. February 20 February 21 February 22 Polish film Ida won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 87th Academy Awards on 22 February 2015. The win marks the first foreign language Oscar for Poland. February 23 February 24 Polish drama film Twarz won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2018 Berlin film festival. February 25 February 26 February 27 February 28 February 29

March

March 1 March 2 March 3 March 4 March 5 March 6 Poland has the second largest share of women holding managerial positions at 44 percent among the European Union countries, according to the report published on 6 March 2017 by Eurostat. March 7 March 8 Ancient DNA found in the dental plaque of Neandertals – our nearest extinct relative – has provided remarkable new insights into their behaviour, diet and evolutionary history, including their use of plant-based medicine to treat pain and illness nearly 50,000 years before the invention of penicillin. Polish scientists and their international colleagues published the finding in the journal Nature on 8 March 2017. March 9 Polish politician Donald Tusk on 9 March 2017 was re-elected as President of the European Council for a second term of two and a half years for the period from 1 June 2017 to 30 November 2019. March 10 March 11 March 12 Poland, along with Czech Republic and Hungary, joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an intergovernmental military alliance, on March 12, 1999. They are the former Soviet bloc's first countries to join the alliance. March 13 March 14 March 15 March 16 Karolina Biewleska from Poland was crowned the 70th Miss World on 16 March 2022 at the Coca-Cola Music Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 17 The Interpol Environmental Crime Programme presented wildlife crime law enforcement representatives from Poland with the Interpol Ecomessage Award on 17 March 2010 for their outstanding efforts in combating international wildlife crime and significant contribution to the international exchange of intelligence relating to environmental criminals. March 18 March 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 March 24 March 25 March 26 March 27 March 28 March 29 March 30 March 31

April

April 1 April 2 Iga Swiatek of Poland won her 17th straight match and her third consecutive WTA 1000 title with a straight-sets win 6-4, 6-0 over Naomi Osaka in the Miami Open final on 2 April 2022. April 3 April 4 April 5 April 6 April 7 April 8 April 9 April 10 April 11 April 12 April 13 April 14 April 15 April 16 April 17 April 18 April 19 Polish photographer Tomasz Padlo won the 3rd prize at the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards in Landscape category. Małgorzata Górska from Poland won the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize, considered as the Nobel Prize for grassroots environmentalism, on 19 April 2010. Małgorzata was awarded for leading the fight to protect Poland’s Rospuda Valley, one of Europe’s last true wilderness areas, from a controversial highway project that would have destroyed the region’s sensitive ecosystems. April 20 April 21 April 22 April 23 April 24 April 25 April 26 April 27 April 28 A team of Polish scientists has discovered the world's first pregnant Egyptian mummy while carrying out scans on the 2,000-year-old remains, as revealed in the Journal of Archaeological Science on 28 April 2021. April 29 April 30

May

May 1 May 2 May 3 Office of Electronic Communications of Poland won the 2016 WSIS Prize for their program titled Certification Programme for Better ICT Services. May 4 Polish tennis star Iga Swiatek edged Aryna Sabalenka 7-5 4-6 7-6(7) in a gruelling Madrid Open final to win the title for the first time on 4 May 2024. May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 13 The European Commission on 13 May 2014 approved an investment of €60 million from the European Regional and Development Fund (ERDF) to complete the construction of the electrical grid between Poland and Lithuania. May 14 The Poland Ministry of Administration and Digitization won a World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Project Prize in Geneva, Switzerland, for their project Lighthouse Keepers in the category of Capacity building at a prize ceremony held on 14 May 2012. May 15 Polish surgeons on 15 May 2013 performed Poland's first total face transplant. A 33-year-old man received the 27-hour long skin-and-bone transplant, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in a workplace accident. May 16 May 17 May 18 May 19 Polish footballer Robert Lewandowski playing for Bayern Munich broke Gerd Mueller's 49-year-old Bundesliga goal-scoring record for a single season on 19 May 2021 when he netted for the 41st time in the last minute of their last match, a 5-2 win over Augsburg. Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize at the 71st Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 2018 for his film Cold War. May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24 Polish footballer Robert Lewandowski won the 2020-21 European Golden Shoe award for his performance at the German club Bayern Munich, as reported on 24 May 2021. Dr Piotr Samczynski from the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland received the 2017 Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award for outstanding contribution to the field of passive radar imaging. May 25 May 26 May 27 May 28 Polish researchers along with a team of international scientists have discovered fossilized remains of 380-million-year-old sharks in the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Their study, published in the journal PLOS one on 28 May 2015, shows modern sharks may have evolved from a more bony ancestor. May 29 May 30 Polish scientists have recently, for the first time, extracted full nuclear genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies. The study, published on 30 May 2017 in Nature Communications, found that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Near East. May 31

June

June 1 June 2 The United Nations General Assembly on 2 June 2017 elected Poland as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for two years starting on 1 January 2018. June 3 June 4 June 5 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 Martav Walczykiewicz of Poland won gold in Canoe Sprint in the Women's Kayak Single (K1) 200m category at the 2015 European Games. June 17 Poland ranked as the 19th most peaceful country in the world at the 2015 Global Peace Index published by Institute for Economics & Peace. June 18 June 19 June 20 June 21 June 22 June 23 Bialowieża Forest on the border between Poland and Belarus was inscribed in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s World Heritage List on 23 June 2014. June 24 June 25 Astronauts Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, Shubhanshu Shukla of India and Tibor Kapu of Hungary were launched to the International Space Station on 25 June 2025 on a privately funded trip organized by Axiom Space in the USA. June 26 June 27 A Polish-Peruvian team of archaeologists on 27 June 2013 revealed they have unearthed a massive royal tomb in Peru full of mummified women that provides clues about the enigmatic Wari Empire that ruled the Andes long before their better-known Incan successors. June 28 June 29 June 30

July

July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 Polish professional tennis player Jerzy Janowicz played at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships semi-final on 5 July 2013 and became the first Polish man to reach a semi-final in a Grand Slam tournament. Unfortunately he lost the match to Britain's Andy Murray. July 6 Krzemionki prehistoric striped flint mining region in Poland was designated as the UNESCO World Heritage Site on 6 July 2019. July 7 July 8 July 9 Archaeologists in western Poland have uncovered two massive prehistoric structures dubbed the “Poland pyramids,” which contain megalithic tombs from one of the region’s oldest sedentary agricultural societies, as revealed on 9 July 2025. These megalithic tombs, estimated to be over 5,500 years old, were unearthed in the General Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park in the village of Wyskoć, located in the Wielkopolska region. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee on 9 July 2017 inscribed the Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System in Poland as the World Heritage site. July 10 July 11 Hanna Suchocka served as the first female Prime Minister of Poland. Suchocka started as Poland's 5th Prime Minister on July 11, 1992. July 12 Polish tennis star Iga Swiatek won her first Wimbledon title on 12 July 2025 beating Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in the women's final. July 13 July 14 July 15 Polish tennis star Iga Swiatek won the girls' singles title at the 2018 Wimbledon beating Leonie Kung 6-4, 6-2 in the final. July 16 Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Marcelo Melo of Brazil won the men's doubles tennis title at Wimbledon on 16 July 2017 by beating Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 13-11. July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 30 July 31

August

August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 Paleontologists from Poland and Germany have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile from Germany's world-renowned Posidonia Shale fossil beds, expanding our understanding of prehistoric ocean ecosystems that existed nearly 183 million years ago. The newly classified species, named Plesionectes longicollum ("long-necked near-swimmer"), was detailed in PeerJ on 4 August 2025. August 5 August 6 August 7 Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland became only the second woman after Cuban Yipsi Moreno to win three hammer world titles when she threw 77.90 metres to take the gold at the 2017 IAAF World Championships. Polish researchers have detected subatomic particles Neutrinos in earth's mantle using the Borexino detector at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. Their findings are expected to yield insights into what radioactive elements lie deep inside the earth and were detailed in the journal Physical Review D on 7 August 2015. August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 Poland’s Pawel Fajdek became the first man to win three successive world hammer championship titles with a dominant triumph at the 2017 IAAF World Championships. Poland won Women's Double Sculls Rowing gold at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil. August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk won the gold medal of women's hammer throw and smashed the world record with 82.29 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil. August 16 August 17 Poland's Agata Nowak won gold in the women's 10m air pistol event at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. August 18 August 19 August 20 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 A collaborative effort by researchers from Poland and their international colleagues have confirmed the existence of a rocky planet named Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, according to a new study published in journal Nature on 24 August 2016. August 25 August 26 August 27 Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk won gold in hammer throw at the 2015 IAAF World Championship. August 28 Poland and the World Bank on 28 August 2014 signed a loan agreement of EUR700 million (US$966 million) to bolster Poland’s ongoing economic recovery. August 29 August 30 The European Council on 30 August 2014 elected Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk as new President of the European Council. August 31 Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland set a new world record in the women's hammer throw of 79.58 meters at the 2014 Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF) track and field athletics meet in Berlin, Germany.

September

September 1 September 2 September 3 Polish kayaker Aleksander Doba on 3 September 2017 completed his third solo transatlantic voyage. September 4 September 5 September 6 September 7 September 8 September 9 September 10 Poland's Iga Swiatek claimed her third career Grand Slam Tennis title at the 2022 US Open in New York defeating Ons Jabeu, 6-2, 7-6(5), in the final. Polish actor Jerzy Skolimowski received Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the 73rd Venice Film Festival on 10 September 2016. September 11 September 12 September 13 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 20 Archaeologists recovered 17th century marble and alabaster decorative structures in the Vistula River bed in Warsaw, Poland on 20 September 2012. September 21 September 22 Polish Agnieszka Radwanska won her third Women's Tennis Association (WTA) title of the year - and the 13th of her career - at the Korea Open on 22 September 2013, outlasting Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-4 in a two-hour, 45-minute epic. September 23 Polish climber Andrzej Bargiel on 23 September 2025 made history by becoming the first person to climb up and ski down Mount Everest without the use of additional oxygen. September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 Poland and Norway officially opened a new gas pipeline, the Baltic Pipe, via Denmark on 27 September 2022. September 28 September 29 September 30

October

October 1 October 2 Polish footballer Robert Lewandowski was named UEFA men's player of the year on 2 October 2020 following a superb season at Bayern Munich. October 3 Wisława Szymborska, a Polish poet and critic, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 3, 1996. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality. October 4 October 5 Lech Wałęsa, former Polish President and human-rights activist, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. Mr. Wałęsa was awarded for his significant contribution, made with considerable personal sacrifice, to ensure the workers' right to establish their own organizations. October 6 October 7 October 8 Poland defeated Montenegro 4-2 on 8 October 2017 to secure a spot in the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. October 9 October 10 Poland's 19-year-old tennis player Iga Swiatek on 10 October 2020 won her country's first Grand Slam singles title by defeating Sofia Kenin 6-4, 6-1, becoming the youngest women's French Open champion since 1992. The postponed Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 was awarded to Olga Tokarczuk of Poland for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life on 10 October 2019. October 11 Poland football team claimed a maiden win over the current World Cup holders Germany on 11 October 2014 in 19 meetings with a 2-0 victory in a Euro2016 qualifying match. October 12 October 13 The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1995, in two equal parts, to Joseph Rotblat, a Polish and British physicist, and to the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms. October 14 Professor Georges Charpak, a French physicist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Professor Charpak received the Nobel Prize for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. October 15 Mateusz Piesiak of Poland won the 2015 EPSON International Pano Awards in the Amateur category for his image titled Phantoms of the Morning. October 16 October 17 Poland and South Africa signed an economic cooperation agreement aimed at increasing two-way trade and investment during Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's visit to South Africa on 17 October 2013. The agreement covers sectors including mining and mineral exploration, carbon enrichment, oil and gas, construction, transport and infrastructure. October 18 October 19 Poland’s Maja Chwalińska defeated Britain’s Sonay Kartal 2–6, 6–4, 6–2 in the 2026 Wuhan Open tennis final in China, claiming her very first WTA Tour singles title. October 20 A paralyzed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord. The treatment, a world first, was carried out by doctors in Poland and England and reported on 20 October 2014. October 21 October 22 October 23 Polish members of parliament on 23 October 2014 voted in favor of banning junk food in Polish schools, with the new regulations set to be enforced in 2015. October 24 October 25 October 26 October 27 Poland was elected as a council member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on 27 October 2014 for four years from the Eastern Europe & Northern Asia region. ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies. October 28 October 29 October 30 October 31

November

November 1 November 2 November 3 November 4 A team of Polish and international team of researchers have detected an element, fluorine, found in our teeth in a galaxy that is more than 12 billion light-years away. A study detailing their findings was published on 4 November 2021 in the journal Nature Astronomy. November 5 Poland and Taiwan on 5 November 2014 signed an agreement on youth cultural and educational exchanges that paves the way for a working holiday program that is set to be launched early next year. November 6 Construction of Christ the King, a statue of Jesus Christ in Świebodzin, Poland, is completed on 6 November 2010. It is apparently completed as the world's biggest statue of Jesus at 167ft - a couple of yards higher than the iconic Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro at 125ft. November 7 November 8 November 9 November 10 November 11 Polish astronomers and their international colleagues have discovered the oldest known stars, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the Universe was just 300 million years old. The stars, found near the center of the Milky Way, were detailed in the journal Nature on 11 November 2015. November 12 November 13 November 14 Archaeologists from Poland and Egypt have discovered the remains of a 4500-year-old temple dedicated to Sun God 'Ra' in Egypt, buried beneath another temple at Abu Ghurab, around 12 miles south of Cairo, as announced on 14 November 2021. November 15 November 16 November 17 November 18 November 19 The 2012-2014 cooperation program between the culture ministries of Poland and Belarus was signed in Minsk on 19 November 2012. The program aims to encourage government bodies and organizations to expand cooperation in culture and seeks to contribute to a greater involvement of public associations into cultural exchange projects. November 20 November 21 The world's deepest swimming pool, named Deepspot, opened in the Polish town of Mszczonów on 21 November 2020, with a depth of 148 feet (45 metres) and a water volume equivalent to 27 Olympic-size swimming pools. November 22 Polish footballer Robert Lewandowski won the prestigious Tuttosport Golden Player Award for the second year in a row on 22 November 2021. Aneta Kręglicka from Poland won the 39th Miss World contest at the age of 24. The event was held on 22 November 1989 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Aneta became the first woman from Poland to win the title. November 23 November 24 November 25 November 26 November 27 November 28 November 29 November 30

December

December 1 December 2 December 3 December 4 Polish doctors successfully carried out Poland's second ever full face transplant on 4 December 2013. The patient, a 26-year-old woman, disfigured by a tumor has received a new face. December 5 December 6 Poland's ex-Formula One driver Robert Kubica won the inaugural Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Personality of the Year award on 6 December 2013, following his fight back to racing from a near fatal rally crash that ended his grand prix career in 2011. December 7 December 8 December 9 December 10 December 11 Katowice of Poland was declared as the member of the 2015 UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the Music category. December 12 Iga Swiatek of Poland was honoured as WTA Player of the Year for the first time on 12 December 2022 after rising to No. 1 in the rankings in April and remaining there for the rest of the season. An international team of researchers, that also includes scientists from Poland, have found the first clear evidence that humans made cheese more than 7,000 years ago in prehistoric Europe. The team led by the University of Bristol in the U.K., analyzed fatty acids extracted from unglazed pottery found at archeological sites in Poland, and determined the vessels were used for dairy products. The research findings were published on 12 December 2012 in the journal Nature. December 13 Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida won the Best Film Award at the 2014 European Film Awards (EFA). December 14 December 15 December 16 December 17 Poland and FC Bayern München striker Robert Lewandowski was named The Best FIFA Men’s Player for the first time in his career on 17 December 2020. December 18 December 19 December 20 December 21 December 22 December 23 December 24 December 25 December 26 Polish tennis star Iga Swiatek was named as the 2022 European Sportsperson of the Year by the Polish Press Agency (PAP). December 27 December 28 December 29 December 30 December 31 Wroclaw of Poland and San Sebastian of Spain were named as the European Capitals of Culture in 2016 in Brussels on 31 December 2015.

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