2012 in Croatia

← 2011 2010 2009 2012 in Croatia → 2013 2014 2015
Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	Other events of 2012 Timeline of Croatian history

Events in the year 2012 in Croatia.

Incumbents

• President – Ivo Josipović
• Prime Minister – Zoran Milanović

Events

• January 22 – Croatian European Union membership referendum, 2012
• November 14 – Economy minister Radimir Čačić sentenced to 22 months in prison by a Hungarian court for causing a traffic accident involving two fatalities.^[1]
• November 16 – Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač are acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
• November 20 – Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is sentenced to 10 years in prison on bribe-taking.^[2]

Deaths

• February 13 – Zlatko Crnković, actor (born 1936)
• February 27 – Helga Vlahović, television personality (born 1945)
• July 23 – Mirjana Gross, historian (born 1922)
• August 7 – Veljko Rogošić, swimmer (born 1941)
• August 14 – Maja Bošković-Stulli, historian (born 1922)
• August 25 – Vesna Girardi-Jurkić, archeologist and politician (born 1944)
• September 30 – Boris Šprem, politician (born 1956)
• October 26 – Joža Horvat, writer (born 1915)
• November 20 – Ivan Kušan, children's writer (born 1933)

References

1. "ČAČIĆ MORA U ZATVOR: 'Odlazim sa svih funkcija u Vladi!' Premijer Milanović: 'Žao mi je. Jako će nam nedostajati'". jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). HINA. 14 November 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
2. "Croatia jails ex-PM Ivo Sanader for taking bribes". BBC. 20 November 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2014.