2000 in Croatia

Incumbents

• President:
• * until 2 February: Vlatko Pavletić
• * 2 February-18 February: Zlatko Tomčić
• * starting 19 February: Stjepan Mesić
• Prime Minister: Zlatko Mateša, Ivica Račan

Events

January

• January 3 – The 2000 general election held, won by a centre-left coalition of Social Democratic Party of Croatia and Croatian Social Liberal Party
• January 24 – First round of the 2000 presidential election held. Stjepan Mesić and Dražen Budiša win 41% and 28% of votes respectively, and enter the run-off.

February

• February 7 – Presidential election run-off, won by Stjepan Mesić with 56% of the vote.
• February 18 – Stjepan Mesić formally inaugurated as President of Croatia.

May

• May 28 – Nova TV, the first national commercial television network, begins broadcast.

Arts and literature

• February 19 – Goran Karan won Dora 2000 to become Croatia's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 with the song "Kad zaspu anđeli".

Deaths

• February 14 – Antun Nalis, actor
• March 9 – Ivo Robić, singer
• August 15 – Ena Begović, actress
• October 11 – Matija Ljubek, canoeist
• November 30 – Vladimir Anić, linguist
• December 7 – Vlado Gotovac, poet and liberal politician