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Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė · Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Dalia Grybauskaitė

b. 1956

President of Lithuania fom 2009 to 2019 (born 1956)

Born
1 Mar 1956 · Vilnius
Part ofLithuania1236 – todaySoviet Union1848 – 1991

Life timeline

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

Showing 81 years
  1. 1 Mar 1956BornBorn in Vilnius
  2. 2001 – 2004RoleMinister of Finance
  3. 2004RoleEuropean Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
  4. 2004 – 2009RoleEuropean Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget
  5. 2009 – 2019RolePresident of the Republic of Lithuania
  6. 2011AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon
  7. 2011AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav‎
  8. 2012AwardCross of Recognition
  9. 2013AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
  10. 2013AwardCharlemagne Prize
  11. 2015AwardOrder of the Republic
  12. 2015AwardRoyal Order of the Seraphim
  13. 2015AwardKnight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit
  14. 2016AwardDecoration for Exceptional Merits
  15. 2022AwardGlobal Economy Prize

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1956 – today).

  1. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  2. 1956Suez Crisis
  3. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  5. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  7. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  9. 1968Prague Spring
  10. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  11. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  12. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  15. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  16. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  17. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  18. 1985Schengen Agreement
  19. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  20. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  21. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  23. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  25. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  26. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  27. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  28. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  29. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  30. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  31. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  32. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  33. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  34. 20112011 Norway attacks
  35. 2011Libyan civil war
  36. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  37. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  38. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  39. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  40. 2015Paris Agreement

Biography

Dalia Grybauskaitė (born 1 March 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She is the first and so far only woman to hold the position and in 2014 she became the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term.

Grybauskaitė has served as Minister of Finance, as well as European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget from 2004 to 2009. She is often referred to as the "Iron Lady", or the "Steel Magnolia".

Text from the Wikipedia article Dalia Grybauskaitė, CC BY-SA 4.0

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