2022 in Serbia

Events in the year 2022 in Serbia.

Incumbents

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia

11 January – Patriarch Porfirije, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, tests positive for COVID-19.
15 January – In an extraordinary session, the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo votes to ban Kosovo Serbs from voting in Serbia's upcoming constitutional referendum on Kosovan territory.
16 January – 2022 Serbian constitutional referendum: Serbians vote in a referendum on whether to approve a constitutional reform that would bring the Serbian judicial system closer to the model required for the country to join the European Union.
15 February – The 2021–2022 Serbian environmental protests end following the dissolution of the National Assembly of Serbia.
1 April – Eight people are killed and 20 more are injured during a coal mine collapse in Aleksinac, Serbia.
3 April – 2022 Serbian general election:
* Serbians vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections.
* President Aleksandar Vučić is re-elected with 60.0% of the vote, and his party Serbian Progressive Party wins the most votes in the National Assembly at 42.9% though fail to win an overall majority of seats.
5 June – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cancels his scheduled visit to Serbia after neighbouring states in the Balkans refuse to let Lavrov's plane use their airspace.
17 June – Serbia reports its first case of monkeypox.
16 July – An Antonov An-12 cargo plane, operated by a Ukrainian airline, crashes near the city of Kavala, Greece, killing all eight people on board. The aircraft was carrying weapons from Serbia to Bangladesh, and crashed before a planned stop in Jordan.
17 July – Croatia refuses to allow a private visit from the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić to the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp due to the Government of Croatia not being formally notified of the visit.
31 July – Kosovo Police close two border crossings in North Kosovo after local Serbs blocked roads and fired shots at police to protest an order to switch Serbian car license plates to Kosovan ones within two months.
27 August – Kosovan prime minister Albin Kurti and Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić agree on a freedom of movement arrangement between Kosovo and Serbia.
3 October – Serbian Party Oathkeepers Together with the People's Party, New Democratic Party of Serbia, and Dveri, signed a joint declaration for the "reintegration of Kosovo into the constitutional and legal order of Serbia" in October 2022.
23 November – Kosovo and Serbia agree an EU-brokered deal to end a dispute over Kosovar license plates in North Kosovo, which triggered protests last year.
26 November – FIFA announces that they will discipline the Serbia national football team for hanging a banner in their locker room that showed the territory of Kosovo as part of Serbia. Kosovar authorities condemned the incident.
9 December – Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić says Serbia is close to deploying its troops to North Kosovo after claiming the lives of the Serb minority there are "being threatened," and that the NATO-led Kosovo Force was "failing to protect them."
11 December – 2022 North Kosovo crisis: Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić calls an emergency meeting of the National Security Council. After the meeting, Vučić states that "it is important to call on Serbs and Albanians to keep the peace" and that he "made certain decisions and gave orders."
15 December - Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced that the Serbian government will send a request to KFOR for the return of a certain number, "from hundreds to a thousand", of police and army personnel to Kosovo, in accordance with UN Resolution 1244.

Sports

21 May – 2021–22 EuroLeague
* In basketball, Anadolu Efes defeat Real Madrid 58–57 in the championship game at Štark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, to win their second EuroLeague title.
10 July – Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins his seventh Wimbledon and overall 21st Grand Slam title after defeating Nick Kyrgios of Australia in the men's singles final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6.

Deaths

3 January – Vladan Živković, 80, actor
23 January –
* Božidar Đurašević, 88, chess player
* Lavrentije Trifunović, 86, Orthodox prelate, eparch of Western Europe and Šabac
24 January –
* Stevan K. Pavlowitch, 88, Serbian-born British historian
* Borislav Stevanović, 46, footballer
4 February – Srboljub Nikolić, 56, football player and manager
7 February – Miodrag Mitić, 62, Olympic volleyball player
9 February – Snežana Pantić, 43, karateka
14 February – Borislav Ivkov, 88, chess grandmaster.
11 March – Nebojša Vučićević, 59, football player and manager
12 March – Dragoljub Jeremić, 43, footballer
16 March – Slobodan Škrbić, 77, footballer
22 March – Milovan Vitezović, 77, writer, professor and screenwriter
25 March – Milivoj Karakašević, 73, table tennis player
3 April – Snežana Nikšić, 78, actress
7 April – Dušan Čkrebić, 94, politician, prime minister and president
23 April – Milenko Kovačević, 58, footballer
28 April – Zoran Sretenović, 57, basketball player and coach, European champion
30 April – Gabe Serbian, 44, American hardcore punk drummer and guitarist
15 May – Stevan Ostojić, 80, footballer
20 May – Vladimir Nenadić, 51, footballer
21 June – Dragan Tomić, 86, politician, acting president, president of the National Assembly
9 July – Ljiljana Bakić, 82–83, architect
18 July – Bajram Haliti, 67, author
21 July – Nikola Radmanović, 53, footballer
25 July – Milenko Stefanović, 92, classical and jazz clarinetist
26 July – Branko Cvejić, 75, actor
1 August – Milan Đuričić, 60, football manager
13 August – Desanka Kovačević-Kojić, 96, historian
23 August – Božidar Delić, 66, military officer and politician, vice president of the National Assembly
25 August – Radovan Radović, 86, basketball player and coach
26 August – Slavko Večerin, 65, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Subotica
27 August – Milutin Šoškić, 84, football player and manager, Olympic champion
13 September – Kornelije Kovač, 80, composer and musician
18 September – Svetozar Saša Kovačević, 72, composer, music pedagogue and church organist
25 September –
* Radovan Radaković, 51, football manager and player
* Srbijanka Turajlić, 76, academic and political activist
14 October – Ljubisav Rakić, 91, neurobiologist and academic
24 October – Milomir Kovac, 60, Serbian-German veterinary surgeon, equine specialist and columnist
27 October – Vladimir Gligorov, 77, economist
2 November – Dejan Mikavica, 58, historian and politician, deputy.
12 November – Goran Kovačević, 51–52, politician, deputy.
23 November –
*Milovan Danojlić, 85, poet, essayist and literary critic, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
*Puriša Đorđević, 98, film director and screenwriter.
28 November – Rajko Petrov Nogo, 77, poet and essayist
7 December – Stevan Vrbaški, 81–82, politician, mayor of Novi Sad.
8 December – Miodrag Ješić, 64, football player and manager
12 December – Latinka Perović, 89, historian and politician
16 December – Siniša Mihajlović, 53, football player and manager
20 December – Dejan Tiago-Stanković, 57, Serbian-Portuguese writer and translator.
29 December – Mihalj Kertes, 75, politician, minister without portfolio.