Events

• January 3 – The 2000 general election
  Croatian parliamentary election, 2000
  Elections for the Chamber of Representatives of the Croatian Parliament were held on January 3, 2000. These were the first elections to be held after the expiration of a full term of the previous Chamber....
  
   held, won by a centre-left coalition of Social Democratic Party of Croatia
  Social Democratic Party of Croatia
  Social Democratic Party of Croatia , commonly referred to in Croatia as simply Social Democratic Party , is the largest centre-left political party in Croatia...
  
   (SDP) and Croatian Social Liberal Party
  Croatian Social Liberal Party
  Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS is a conservative liberal political party in Croatia. The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. Its current president is Darinko Kosor, elected to that post in November 2009.-Chronology:The HSLS was...
  
   (HSLS)
• January 24 – First round of the 2000 presidential election
  Croatian presidential election, 2000
  Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 24 January 2000. As no candidate passed the 50% threshold, a secound round was held on 7 February, the first time a second round had been required in the country's history. The result was a victory for Stjepan Mesić of the Croatian People's Party, who...
  
   held. Stjepan Mesić
  Stjepan Mesić
  Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić is a Croatian politician and former President of Croatia. Before his ten-year presidential term between 2000 and 2010 he held the posts of Speaker of the Croatian Parliament , Prime Minister of Croatia , the last President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia , Secretary General...
  
   and Dražen Budiša
  Dražen Budiša
  Dražen Budiša is a Croatian politician who used to be leading opposition figure in the 1990s and a two-time presidential candidate.-During Yugoslavia:...
  
   win 41% and 28% of votes respectively, and enter the run-off.
• February 7 – Presidential election run-off, won by Stjepan Mesić with 56% of the vote.
• February 18 – Stjepan Mesić formally inaugurated as President of Croatia
  President of Croatia
  The President of Croatia , officially styled the President of the Republic represents the Republic of Croatia in the country and abroad as the head of state, maintains the regular and coordinated operation and stability of the national government system, and safeguards the independence and...
  
  .
• May 28 – Nova TV, the first national commercial television network, begins broadcast.

Arts and literature

• February 19 – Goran Karan
  Goran Karan
  Goran Karan , is a Croatian singer from Split. He specializes in songs influenced by Dalmatian folk music and is known for his powerful and refined tenor voice...
  
   won Dora 2000
  Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000
  Croatia selected its entry for the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest through the "Dora 2000" national contest, which was organised by the Croatian national broadcaster Hrvatska radiotelevizija and held on 19 February 2000 in Opatija. The winner was Goran Karan with "Kad zaspu anđeli".-Dora 2000:The...
  
   to become Croatia's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000
  Eurovision Song Contest 2000
  The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May 2000 at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden, following Charlotte Nilsson's victory in Jerusalem the previous year. It was the first time since 1996 that the contest was held on mainland Europe. The...
  
   with the song "Kad zaspu anđeli".

Deaths

• February 14 – Antun Nalis
  Antun Nalis
  Antun Nalis , aka Tonči Nalis, was a Croatian actor.Antun Nalis was born in Zadar, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. After World War I Zadar became part of Italy, which later helped Nalis to play in Italian movies and portray Italian characters.Nalis began to build his film career...
  
  , actor
• March 9 – Ivo Robić
  Ivo Robic
  Ivo Robić was Croatian singer and songwriter.-Domestic career:Robić began his career as a soloist with the Radio Zagreb Orchestra, while studying at the same time in Zagreb...
  
  , singer
• August 15 – Ena Begović
  Ena Begovic
  Ena Begović was a Croatian actress.Begović began acting early, making her first screen appearance at the age of 16 through a small part in Okupacija u 26 slika, a controversial 1976 film directed by Lordan Zafranović...
  
  , actress
• October 11 – Matija Ljubek
  Matija Ljubek
  Matija Ljubek was a successful canoer from Belišće, Croatia who later became a sports official for Croatia....
  
  , canoeist
• November 30 – Vladimir Anić
  Vladimir Anic
  Vladimir Anić was a Croatian linguist and lexicographer, best known as the author of Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika , the first modern single-volume dictionary of Croatian language....
  
  , linguist
• December 7 – Vlado Gotovac, poet and liberal politician (b. 1930)