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Aleksander Kwaśniewski
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Person

Aleksander Kwaśniewski

b. 1954

President of Poland from 1995 to 2005

Born
15 Nov 1954 · Białogard
Part ofPoland967 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 83 years
  1. 15 Nov 1954BornBorn in Białogard
  2. 1991 – 1993RoleMember of the Sejm
  3. 1995 – 2005RolePresident of the Republic of Poland
  4. 1995AwardOrder of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic)
  5. 1996AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great
  6. 1996AwardKnight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  7. 1996AwardHonorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
  8. 1996AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
  9. 1996AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav‎
  10. 1997AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
  11. 1997AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross‎
  12. 1997AwardGold Olympic Order
  13. 1998AwardGrand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry
  14. 1998AwardCollar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana
  15. 1998AwardGrand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1954 – today).

  1. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  3. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  4. 1956Suez Crisis
  5. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  7. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  9. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  11. 1968Prague Spring
  12. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  13. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  14. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  17. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  18. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  19. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  20. 1985Schengen Agreement
  21. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  22. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  23. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  25. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  27. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  28. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  29. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  30. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  31. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  32. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  33. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  34. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  35. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  36. 20112011 Norway attacks
  37. 2011Libyan civil war
  38. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  39. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  40. 20142014 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Aleksander Kwaśniewski (born 15 November 1954) is a Polish politician and journalist who served as the 3rd president of Poland from 1995 to 2005.

Kwaśniewski served as a minister in the communist government during the 1980s, and later led the post-communist centre-left Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland, a successor to the former ruling Polish United Workers' Party, and a co-founder of the Democratic Left Alliance. In 1995, he was elected to the presidency, defeating the incumbent, Lech Wałęsa, and was re-elected in 2000 in a decisive first-round victory. His presidency was marked by modernisation of Poland, rapid economic growth (Poland's GDP doubled in ten years), the drafting of a new constitution (1997), and the accession of Poland to NATO (1999) and the European Union (2004). In 2004, he brokered a pro-democratic agreement during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.

According to a 2020 poll conducted by Rzeczpospolita, Kwaśniewski was considered the best president in the post-1989 history of Poland by a plurality of Poles.

Text from the Wikipedia article Aleksander Kwaśniewski, CC BY-SA 4.0

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