2022 in Poland

Events in the year 2022 in Poland.

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Poland

January-February

1 January – Ten localities were granted town rights: Bolimów, Cegłów, Iwaniska, Izbica, Jedlnia-Letnisko, Kaczory, Lutomiersk, Nowe Miasto, Olsztyn, and Pruszcz.
5 January - President Andrzej Duda tests positive for COVID-19 for the second time. He previously tested positive in October 2020.
6 January - The Far right nationalist Confederation Liberty and Independence party Facebook page is taken down by Facebook.
11 January - Poland surpasses 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the 15th nation to do so.
21 January - Poland reports a record 36,665 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,443,217.
22 January - Poland reports a record for the second consecutive day of 40,876 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,484,095.
26 January - Poland reports a record 53,420 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,637,776.
8 February - Poland indefinitely postpones its deadline of March 1 for mandatory full vaccination of teachers, members of the army and police officers because it cannot be met.
18 February - U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announces the sale of 250 M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Poland amid tensions with Russia. The Polish Land Forces will become the first European military to operate the American M1 Abrams.
26 February - Poland says that around 100,000 Ukrainians have crossed the border since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.

March-April

23 March - Poland expels 45 staff of the Russian embassy in Warsaw for "spying activities"
11 March - Sejm passes the Homeland Defence Act, increasing the number of active personnel, increasing defence spending, modernizing the army and introducing voluntary basic military recruit training.
14 April - United Poland calls for tougher blasphemy laws in Poland, such as three-year jail terms for insulting church or interrupting mass.

May-June

14 May
* Lech Poznań won their eighth Polish Football Championship.
* ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle won their ninth Polish Volleyball Championship defeating Jastrzębski Węgiel in the finals.
27 May – Śląsk Wrocław won their 18th Polish Basketball Championship defeating Legia Warsaw in the finals.
27 June - Completed transition of the digital terrestrial television broadcasting standard from DVB-T / MPEG-4 to DVB-T2 / HEVC

July-August

1 August - state-owned Oil Company PKN Orlen finalised the merger with state-owned Oil Company Lotos.
11 August - 2022 Oder environmental disaster
26 August – 11 September: 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship co-hosted by the Netherlands and Poland

September-October

1 September – Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice party, announced the government's intent to officially demand that the German government pay 6.2 trillion zł in reparations.
25 September – Motor Lublin won their first Team Speedway Polish Championship defeating Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski in the finals.
27 September – Baltic Pipe is commissioned.
7 October – United Poland and Zbigniew Ziobro submit a citizens' legislative initiative for the tougher blasphemy laws with close to 400,000 signatures to parliament.
9 October – Three people are killed when a wooden tourist boat carrying 14 people capsizes in Gdańsk.
10 October – state-controlled oil and gas company, PGNiG Shareholders approve the company's takeover by state-owned Oil Company PKN Orlen, this came after PKN Orlen Shareholders done the same.
12 October – Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Law and Justice party, says that the Polish Pis government might buy PKP Energetyka and Żabka convenience store from CVC Capital Partners.

November-December

2 November – Poland's Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak announces the construction of a barrier along the border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, as Poland believes that Russia will use the border to illegally transport African and Asian immigrants to Europe.
15 November – Two missiles impact the territory of Poland near the village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine.
17 November – Germany offers to deploy German Air Force jets to protect Polish airspace in response to the missile strike on Przewodów, Lublin Voivodeship, which killed two people.
22 November – Germany says it will deploy Patriot surface-to-air missile systems on the Poland–Ukraine border in order to protect Polish airspace. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak says he has accepted the German proposal.

Holidays

1 January - New Year's Day
6 January - Epiphany
17 April - Easter Sunday
18 April - Easter Monday
1 May - May Day
3 May - 3 May Constitution Day
5 June - Whit Sunday
16 June - Corpus Christi
15 August - Assumption Day
1 November - All Saints' Day
11 November - Independence Day
25 December - Christmas Day
26 December – 2nd Day of Christmas

Deaths

January

1 January — Janusz Łęski, film director
3 January — Zbigniew Łój, Olympic field hockey player
5 January — Marian Machowski, footballer
7 January — John Swantek, American Polish Catholic prelate
11 January — Jerzy Głowacki, Olympic cyclist
19 January
* Antonina Girycz — actress
* Stanisław Grędziński, Olympic sprinter
21 January — Czesław Krakowski, politician
23 January
* Barbara Krafftówna, actress
* Zofia Walasek, Olympic middle-distance runner
24 January — Tadeusz Bradecki, actor
26 January — Jan Michalik, Olympic wrestler

February

1 February — Stanisław Olejniczak, Olympic basketball player
3 February — Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, writer and literary critic
4 February — Jerzy Osiatyński, politician
6 February
* Ryszard Kubiak, Olympic rowing coxswain
* Zdzisław Jan Ryn, psychiatrist and diplomat
7 February
* Jerzy Bartmiński, linguist and ethnologist
* Zbigniew Namysłowski, jazz musician and composer
* Andrzej Rapacz, Olympic biathlete
8 February — Krzysztof Kuszewski, epidemiologist and state official
9 February — Jan Magiera, Olympic cyclist
10 February
* Roman Kostrzewski, heavy metal musician
* Stefan Żywotko, football manager
14 February — Daniel Passent, journalist and writer
15 February — Józef Zapędzki, Olympic sport shooter
18 February
* Witold Paszt, singer
* Zdzisław Podkański, politician
20 February — Krystyna Meissner, theatre director
24 February — Jan Gomola, footballer

March

13 March
* Pawel Kwiek, photographer
* Adam Odzimek, Roman Catholic prelate
16 March — Józef Różański, politician
17 March — Piotr Drzewiecki, footballer
19 March — Marian Zembala, surgeon, academic and politician
22 March — Edmund Michał Piszcz, Roman Catholic prelate
23 March — Andrzej Cwojdziński, conductor, composer and music teacher
26 March — Teofil Wilski, Roman Catholic prelate
30 March
* Andrzej Butra, veterinarian and politician
* Egon Franke, Olympic fencer
31 March
* Andrzej Bujakiewicz, conductor and teacher
* Marek Pasionek, lawyer and government official

April

1 April
* Ryszard Frąckiewicz, diplomat, ambassador to Australia and Japan
* Jolanta Lothe, actress
3 April — Andrzej Wiśniewski, football coach
5 April — Stanisław Kowalski, masters athlete, nation's oldest living man
7 April — Ludwik Dorn, politician
18 April — Andrzej Korzyński, composer
20 April — Erwina Ryś-Ferens, four-time Olympic speed skater
27 April — Adam Lepa, Roman Catholic prelate and theologian

May

4 May —
* Zbigniew Kicka, Olympic boxer
* Józef Leśniak, politician
6 May — Mirosław Pietrewicz, economist and politician
7 May — Marek Grabowski, doctor and politician
9 May — Tadeusz Grygiel, basketball player
12 May — Maria Pańczyk-Pozdziej, politician
15 May —
* Ignacy Gogolewski, actor
* Tadeusz Kowalczyk, politician and activist
* Jerzy Trela, actor
23 May —
* Élie Buzyn, Polish-born French surgeon and Holocaust survivor
* Maja Lidia Kossakowska, fantasy writer
24 May — Tadeusz Jankowski, Olympic cross-country skier
29 May — Maria Mirecka-Loryś, World War II resistance member
30 May — Mariusz Linke, mixed martial artist and grappler

June

2 June — Kai Bumann, German-Polish conductor and teacher
3 June — Adam Wolańczyk, actor
4 June — Bolesław Tejkowski, politician, sociologist and engineer
9 June — Biruta Lewaszkiewicz-Petrykowska, lawyer and judge
10 June — Kazimierz Rynkowski, politician and lawyer
14 June — Aleksander Mackiewicz, politician and economist
17 June — Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, Polish-Canadian mathematician
20 June — Józef Walaszczyk, leatherworker and businessman
26 June — Jerzy Kopa, football player and manager
30 June — Kazimierz Zimny, athlete

July

4 July — Janusz Kupcewicz, football player and manager
13 July — Anna Jakubowska, World War II combatant and community activist
24 July — Janina Altman, Polish-Israeli chemist and Holocaust survivor
26 July — Uri Orlev, Polish-Israeli children's author

August

1 August — Teresa Ferenc, poet
2 August — Jan Budkiewicz, publicist, screenwriter, and politician
2 August — Zbyszko Piwoński, politician, voivode of Zielona Góra and senator
7 August — Henryk Dziewior, entrepreneur and politician
8 August — Zofia Posmysz, journalist and author
12 August — Natalia LL, visual artist
13 August — Tadeusz Bartczak, chemist and crystallographer
14 August — Stefan Gierowski, painter and avant garde artist
14 August — Svika Pick, Polish-born Israeli singer and songwriter
15 August — Rajmund Zieliński, Olympic cyclist
16 August — Stanisław Masternak, politician
19 August — Tekla Juniewicz, supercentenarian
22 August — Edmund Borowski, sprinter
27 August — Tadeusz Ferenc, economist and politician
30 August — Tadeusz Myler, politician

September

1 September — Adam Kułach, diplomat
4 September — Janusz Batugowski, footballer
4 September — Edward Hulewicz, singer
6 September — Ligia Borowczyk, actress
13 September — Grzegorz Matuszak, sociologist and politician
16 September — Stanisław Żytkowski, lawyer and politician
21 September — Edward Mosberg, holocaust survivor
21 September — Tomasz Wołek, journalist and sports commentator
23 September — Franciszek Pieczka, actor
28 September — Jan Styrna, Roman Catholic prelate
29 September — Mieczysław Gil, MP

October

1 October — Lech Krzysztof Paprzycki, politician
3 October — Jerzy Urban, journalist
9 October — Leszek Tadeusz Biały, politician
12 October — Dariusz Raczyński, footballer
14 October — Feliks W. Kres, writer
17 October — Zbigniew Senkowski, politician
19 October — Stanisław Ciosek, politician
21 October — Marcin Giżycki, film and art historian
22 October — Leszek Engelking, writer
23 October — Marian Fuks, historian
24 October — Tomasz Wójtowicz, volleyball player
28 October — Helena Łazarska, operatic and vocal pedagogue
28 October — Andrzej Magowski, footballer
30 October — Jack Terry, Polish-American author and Holocaust survivor
30 October — Lucyna Wiśniewska, politician
30 October — Marek Wojtera, politician

November

4 November — Igor Sypniewski, footballer
5 November — Gabriela Cwojdzińska, pianist and politician
5 November — Irène Kaufer, author
12 November — Zbigniew Cyganik, politician
14 November — Jerzy Połomski, singer and actor
14 November — Adam Zieliński, politician
16 November — Piotr Pankanin, politician
17 November — Barbara Hyla-Makowska, teacher and politician
18 November — Sever Sternhell, chemist
25 November — Edward Leier, Ice hockey player

December

7 December — Jan Nowicki, actor
12 December — Zbigniew Wawer, historian
12 December — Mirosław Hermaszewski, cosmonaut
13 December — Mariusz Walter media mogul
16 December — Bogdan Łysak, politician
20 December — Tadeusz Werno, Roman Catholic prelate
20 December — Lech Kuropatwiński, politician
21 December — Ludwik Synowiec, Ice hockey player
22 December — Maria Nowak, economist
24 December — Andrzej Pstrokoński, basketball player
25 December — Bogusław Litwiniec, politician
25 December — Haim Drukman, Polish-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician
26 December — Emilian Kamiński, actor
27 December — Andrzej Iwan, footballer