Events
- January 3 – The 2000 general election held, won by a centre-left coalition of Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) and Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS)
- 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 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 28 – Nova TV, the first national commercial television network, begins broadcast.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)