Events in the year 2015 in Lithuania.
Incumbents President: Dalia Grybauskaitė Prime Minister: Algirdas Butkevičius
Events
January 1 January - Lithuania adopts the Euro and joins Eurozone. 1 January - first commercial operations in Klaipėda LNG FSRU. 1 January - National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania was established. 1 January - Suicide Prevention Centre of Lithuania was established. 15 January - a big storm left 15,000 people without electricity, mostly in Klaipėda county. 16 January - second honorary consulate of Estonia in Lithuania was opened in the city of Kaunas. 26 January - Israel opened its embassy in Vilnius. 28 January - the Vilnius People's Rupublic internet hoax was initiated.
February 6 February - honorary consulate of India in Lithuania was opened in the capital city of Vilnius. 9 February - Aistė Diržiūtė becomes the first Lithuanian actress to win Shooting Stars Award. 28 February - Lithuania signs a trade agreement to buy liquefied natural gas from the United States in a move aimed at reducing heavy dependence on Russian gas deliveries.
March
1 March - Municipal elections held in Lithuania with first ever direct mayoral elections held together. 18 March - Polish-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce was established. 19 March - Lithuanian Parliament Seimas voted in favour of conscription restitution. 20 March - NATO general Jean-Paul Palomeros has signed the NATO-Lithuanian agreement on the legal status of NATO command and control centres in Lithuania. 25 March - Lithuania's Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius opposed of proposed same-sex partnerships legalization. 29 March - archaeologists announced about the thousand-year-old grave discovery near the village of Kvietiniai, Klaipėda District Municipality.
April
9 April - Lithuania was invited to start accession talks with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 13 April - Darius Jauniškis appointed as the head of the State Security Department. 14 April - International Monetary Fund (IMF) classified Lithuania as advanced economy. 17 April - Opened a new Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Richmond, Virginia, United States. 23 April - Lithuania banned wearing separate elements of military uniforms and insignia in public. 28 April - Lithuania opens honorary consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
May 4 May - Biggest stadium in the country - Žalgiris Stadium was sold for redevelopment and eventually de-establishment. 7 May - President Dalia Grybauskaitė rejected Vydas Gedvilas as candidate for education minister. 9 May - Moody‘s upgraded Lithuanian credit rating to A3. 15 May - district heating plant opened in Elektrėnai, that is operating on biofeuls. 16 May - 2 Lithuanian pilots died in aviation accident when Klaipėda Avialines plane Antonov An-2 dropped down to the Baltic Sea. 23 May - Air Lituanica, Lithuanian airline owned by the municipality of Vilnius, has announced that it is stopping operations. 26 May - Vilnius Intermodal Terminal was opened. 27 May - Audronė Pitrėnienė appointed as education and science minister of Lithuania.
June 1 June - Lithuanian General Consulate opened in Los Angeles, United States 1 June - Laima Jurevičienė appointed as country's new ambassador to the Council of Europe. 7 June - Klaipėda Port announces start of international container distribution centre. 9 June - cable laying works of NordBalt were completed. 18 June - in Batumi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Tamar Beruchashvili opened a second Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Georgia.
Deaths
29 March - Petras Dirgėla, writer and recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize in 2003. 3 April - Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas, politician and signer of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. 6 April - Romualdas Ozolas, politician and signer of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. 6 October - Stasys Povilaitis, variety songs singer, maestro. 8 October - Galina Dauguvietytė, actor, TV director.
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