2001 in Croatia

The following lists events that happened during 2001 in Croatia.

← 2000 1999 1998 2001 in Croatia → 2002 2003 2004
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2001 Timeline of Croatian history

Incumbents

• President: Stjepan Mesić
• Prime Minister: Ivica Račan

Events

• March 28 – Chamber of Counties is abolished.
• December 3 – USKOK is founded.[1]

Arts and literature

• June 30 –Slow Surrender wins the Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the 48th Pula Film Festival.[2]

Sport

• July 9 – Goran Ivanišević wins the Wimbledon Men's Singles title.

Deaths

• January 1 – Fabijan Šovagović, actor (born 1932)
• January 28 – Ranko Marinković, writer (born 1913)
• February 6 – Miro Kačić, linguist (born 1946)
• February 17 – Zvonimir Červenko, general (born 1926)
• July 3 – Ivan Slamnig, poet (born 1930)
• September 5 – Vladimir Žerjavić, economist (born 1912)
• November 6 – Sveto Letica, admiral (born 1926)

See also

• 2001 in Croatian television

References

1. http://www.dorh.hr/Default.aspx?sec=607
2. "Kultura". hrt.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Radiotelevision. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2015-11-18.