Ivan Gašparovič
Ivan Gašparovič · Michał Koziczyński, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Ivan Gašparovič

b. 1941

Slovak politician and lawyer

Born
27 Mar 1941 · Poltár

Life timeline

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

Showing 98 years
  1. 27 Mar 1941BornBorn in Poltár
  2. 1992 – 2002RoleMember of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
  3. 1993 – 1998RoleSpeaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
  4. 1998RolePresident of Slovakia
  5. 1998AwardAndrej Hlinka Order Class I
  6. 2004AwardĽudovít Štúr Order 1st class
  7. 2004 – 2014RolePresident of Slovakia
  8. 2007AwardCollar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic‎
  9. 2007AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
  10. 2010AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav‎
  11. 2012AwardKnight of the Order of the Elephant
  12. 2014AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1941 – today).

  1. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  2. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  3. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  4. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  5. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  6. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  7. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  9. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  10. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  12. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  13. 1956Suez Crisis
  14. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  16. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  18. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  20. 1968Prague Spring
  21. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  22. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  23. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  24. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  26. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  27. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  28. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  29. 1985Schengen Agreement
  30. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  31. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  32. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  34. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  36. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  37. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  38. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  39. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  40. 20062006 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Ivan Gašparovič (born 27 March 1941) is a Slovak politician and lawyer who was the third president of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first and currently the only Slovak president to be re-elected.

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